Which order should I play all these various Serious Sam games in?

[Жидобандеровец]

I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this. I'm really confused. I wanted SS2, so when I've seen it on a -90% sale with a bunch of other games I grabbed it. That BFE thing immediately looks interesting, too. But what's with the others? There this one, Classics: Revolution; and there's then HD: The First Encounter and HD: The Second Encounter.

Where do I begin?

[MASTAN]

First there were
Serious Sam: First Encounter and Serious Sam: Second Encounter, which nowadays are named
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter and Serious Sam Classic: The Second Encounter
Next came cartoony http://store.steampowered.com/app/204340/
Next logically should be Serious Sam 3, but instead developers rereleased old games on new engine http://store.steampowered.com/app/41000/ and http://store.steampowered.com/app/41014/
They had basically all the same levels and enemies with better graphics, but due to new engine limitations lacked special gravity effects.
Next came http://store.steampowered.com/app/41070/ which is direct prequel to the First Encounter.

Some time later http://store.steampowered.com/app/227780/ was released, which is basically two first Classic Encounters.

All above mentioned games excluding Revolutions were devloped by Croteam. There are also third-party http://store.steampowered.com/app/111600/ and http://store.steampowered.com/app/201480/

Story-wise you should play any First Encounter, any Second Encounter(or both of them in Revolutions), then Serious Sam 2, Serious Sam 3 BFE(Before the First Encounter).

[RicemanRhys]

And then you got The Next Encounter...which is only on console

[Жидобандеровец]

Thanks for the great answer!

[f_dog80]

Awesome! Just asked this question in another forum after buying the complete pack. Thanks!

[f_dog80]

should I play HD first and second encounters, or the revolutions bundle?
the complete pack inclubes them all, but it deosn't seem neccisary

[nickwithtea]

Originally posted by f_dog80:

should I play HD first and second encounters, or the revolutions bundle?
the complete pack inclubes them all, but it deosn't seem neccisary

I'd play the original classics, which are both included in the revolutions version. For some reason I didn't like the HD remakes as much - but that's probably because I got used to the original games mechanics/movement\gravity/visuals and such.

If you enjoy them a lot you can check out the HD versions afterwards

[Josh]

it doesn't matter, you can play 2 before the others.
the plot isn't exactly gripping or important lol