In Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, many hiding places are hidden, thanks to which you can replenish ammunition and health and, of course, increase your level. But finding them is not so simple. And in this small guide to Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, you will learn all about the secrets of the game. And also we will share codes that will greatly facilitate your passage.
Walkthrough
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is essentially a first-person shooter. Here you have to save the world from hordes of creepy monsters who have escaped from an ancient trap. There are no complicated logic tasks in the game, all the quests come down to the simple “get there”, “get that”. So your task, for the most part, is only to methodically shoot opponents.
But don’t think that passing Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is an easy fun walk. After all, most monsters are dangerous, besides there are really a lot of them. And the supply of ammunition is limited, in addition, your hero is not immortal and sometimes without health pills it is very bad.
But do not despair, because there are secrets in Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter. In these secret places you will find a new killer weapon. You can also replenish ammunition or restore health. And then we will tell you where they can be found.
Hatshepsut
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter starts with this location, and there are 7 secrets hidden here. To find the first, turn right from the starting point and go to the corner of the wall. Here lies the Colt pistol. Return to the starting point and go forward. Then take it up a tier and turn right. Go along the ledge, and jump to the platform behind the corner platform. There is a second secret - a rocket launcher.
Find the same cornice on the opposite side and also go along it and jump onto the platform. Ammunition is hidden here (third secret). To discover the fourth secret of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, climb the upper tier and go to the right corner. Behind the retractable wall lies a double-barreled barrel.
Go down to the lower level and find the stone door on the left. Blast it with a rocket launcher and you will find the fifth secret, and with it the Croteam staff. On the opposite side is the same door. You do not need to blow it up, because it will open itself. Croteam fans hid behind it.
The last secret is far away in the desert, next to a lone palm tree. Here you can replenish health and ammunition.
Sand canyon
You can find 6 secrets in Sand Canyon. To get started, run through the valley, and climb the mountain next to the door. A retractable wall will open (first secret). Go down the hill immediately and jump over the hill. So you will find the second secret. A hidden warehouse with a Thompson machine gun is located in a room with toads. You will find it to the right of the entrance.
In the next room, find the hopping device. Thanks to him, you will get to the column standing next to the entrance. Here lies the fourth secret - armor. Nearby there is a room with a platform and a window (5 secret). You can get to it through a small hole under the stairs.
At the end of the location, near the entrance to the tomb, the last secret of the level is hidden. To get to it, follow the path on the left side of the mountain, and climb onto the roof.
Tomb of Ramses
At this level of the game Serious Sam 2, eight secrets are hidden. To find the first one, go up from the starting point to a hall with several entrances. Then go right and climb onto the balcony of the next room. Jump from it to the ledge, and take away the cartridges and armor.
The second secret is hidden in a narrow corridor, with two descending partitions. The secret passage is located behind one of the walls on the right side. And right next to one of the beams under the ceiling is health (3 secret).
To discover the next secret, turn left in a room with two stairs, where iridescent lights fly in the air. Climb onto the left platform, and jump on them. This teleport will lead you to the fourth secret. And immediately after the jump you will find a rocket launcher.
In the next large tomb room, climb to the upper levels. Follow to the square platform in the center of the room and jump from it to the bridge. Here is the sixth secret - health.
In the hall, where there are many shotgun cartridges, there is a secret narrow passage. But it will be open if you first take the armored plate at the entrance, and defeat the archanoid.
To find the last secret of this level of Serious Sam 2, go along the wall of the secret passage. At the end you will find a shield.
Valley of the Kings
At this level of the game “Cool Sam HD: First Blood” you can find four secrets. Moreover, some of them are interconnected. So, you need to destroy the five statues of Amon. And the first you will find right at the entrance to the location. And the other four are in the last room with an artifact.
To reveal the second secret, find a jumping device in a room with jumping toads and a luminous pyramid. It is located behind a closed door in the corner of the platform. So you get to the beam under the ceiling and find armor.
Go to the end of the level in the flooded cave, turn right and follow the edge of the cliff. If you discovered the first secret, then a teleport will appear in front. Otherwise, you have to blow up the stone embankment to reveal the third secret.
Enter the teleport and it will lead you to the far bank of the cliff. Go through the dark door and you will find yourself in a secret game level.
Lunar mountains (hidden location)
At this secret level of the game “Cool Sam HD: First Blood”, seven hiding places are hidden:
- On the fourth island in a row, pick up the bullets on the edge of the machine gun. Armor appears immediately.
- On the fifth islet, jump to the ledge behind the waterfall.
- Health is hidden in the grass. But to get to the cache, go along the narrow path that is located to the right of the waterfall between the stones.
- Go to the dark hole, which is located next to a huge round waterfall. But do not jump into it, but find a retractable wall leading into a dark cave. It will open as soon as you come closer.
- The next secret is hidden on the edge of the rocks, which is located in a flooded grotto with fish.
- Once in the last cave, turn to the corridor from which you exited and break a stone wall above it. This will open a secret passage.
- Iditol along the opened secret corridor, and through an invisible teleport you will get directly to the end of the location. Thanks to this cache, you will immediately complete the level, avoiding the final battle.
Oasis
At this level, you can find 6 secrets. At the beginning of the location, jump over the waterfall, and this will lead you to a small cave (1). Find a stone statue in the first hall of the sanctuary and pick up a pill (2) to the left of it. She activates the next two secrets. Break the statue in the same room, this will open a secret entrance (3). To disappear into it, jump onto the platform on which the statue stood. Here lies a hopping device that will take you to the door (4).
To open the entrance to the secret passage, find the hidden wall on the left side of the toad room. Having blown it up, you will solve the fifth secret. But do not rush to immediately pick up the trophies, but try to get around them and get to the wall. This will push you back to the room where additional enemies will appear (6).
Dunes
There are 7 secrets hidden in this location. And the first of them lies on the left side of the entrance to the ancient city among the dunes. To open the second, break a palm tree that grows near the city wall, to the left of the entrance. The third secret is hidden in the desert among the dunes, on the right side of the entrance. Go a little further, and near the city wall you will find a pill. This will be the fourth secret.
To find the fifth, secret oasis, go to the right side from the entrance to the city to the palm trees. Do not rush to leave the location, because sometimes this secret is not counted. If this did not happen, then go over the border of the green zone around the palm trees. A message will be received about finding a secret oasis.
Next, go to the left corner of the city square. There is a platform on which you can jump using a rocketjump. Here you will find the sixth secret.
The last level cache is hidden in the left corner of the town square. Find the platform there and jump on it with the help of a rocketjump. And immediately jump off, as it will explode in a few seconds. You will find health in the debris left after the platform.
Memphis suburbs
There are 7 hiding places in this location. To discover the first secret of Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter in the suburbs of Memphis, go to the housing estate and find the passage between the houses, on the left side of the wall. Nearby is a palm tree, covering the passage. Break it up (2).
The next secret (3) is in the left aisle, near the second residential complex. Trophies are hidden right in the far right corner (4). But as soon as you take them, mechanoids will appear on the roof. It’s better to destroy small ones with a rocket launcher, but use a minigun against a large one.
To the left of the closed door of the second residential complex is a house. And next to it lies health (5). To the right of the closed entrance of the second residential complex is an armored plate (6). As soon as you lift it, new enemies will appear. You can avoid an attack if you quickly pick up the trophy and run out of the trap and turn right towards the door.
The last secret is hidden in the well, which is located at the end of the second residential complex. To pick it up, falling to the bottom, stick to the wall. This will bring you to the ledge where the armor and health lie (7).
Sewerage
At this level of the game, 5 secrets are hidden. To find the first one, find the secret passage in the pond where the location begins. The second secret is the shield, hidden at the bottom of the second reservoir. Above this lake in the center passes the beam where the armor lies (3). To climb onto it, climb onto the platform on the upper tier.
Get to the room with holes in the walls and go down to the lower tier. In the floor you will find a flooded hole that leads to a strange place where there is no gravity (4). The last secret is hidden in the place from which a long swim begins along the flooded corridors. When enemies appear from the tunnel, a wall falls nearby. But after 10 seconds, she rises back. And you need to have time to get on the platform that is behind it (5).
Memphis - Metropolis
There is only one secret in this location. To find it, turn right. When you go out into the streets of the city, next to you you will see a door, and near it a wall. Blast it and take the cannon and cores to it.
Sphinx Alley
There is only one secret. To find him, go from the beginning of the level to the left. And far in the desert, find a lone palm tree. Ammunition lies next to the tree.
Thebes - Karnak
In this location, 8 caches are hidden. To open the first of them, immediately after loading the level, turn back. Do not hesitate. After all, you only have a couple of seconds to enter the closing door. They will lead your hero into the courtyard that you ran through in the cut scene.
Get to the hall with columns and find the buttons on the left and right. When you press them, the platform located on the side of the entrance to the hall is activated. Jump on it and go up to the second floor, where a secret area (2) is hidden.
In the pool, get to the lying cores. Next to them is a network section with a retractable floor that will lead you to a cache (3). On the right side of the pool is hidden another retractable wall. Behind her is the armor and Easter egg from Croteam (4).
In the room with bridges that is located outside the temple doors, find the two buttons on the walls. Click them and you will open a secret passage in the floor of the monolith that stands in the center of the pool (5).
Go to the sanctuary room, where a lot of ammunition is scattered. There you will find two pools, and in the left of them there is a retractable wall leading to an unusual dome (6).
At the end of the level in the square, go to the left wall. There is a small area with a false wall, behind which ammunition is hidden (7).
During the final battle in the square you will receive a message that you have activated secret health. To pick it up, go to the right wall. A small hole will open where you can pick up your prize (8).
Thebes - Luxor
You will find the secret in the left wing, in the first hall. Find there a building resembling a mausoleum, and be sure to pick up a flask with health. After that, the roof starts to drop. Run out and wait for the process to finish. Access to the secret ammunition depot will open (1).
In the second hall of the left wing, turn right immediately from the entrance. Go closer to the wall and find the hopping device (2). Using the catapult from the previous secret, jump onto the platform located on the roof of the hall. Find the prominent part of the wall and blow it up. Inside is ammunition (3).
In the first room of the right wing, find the four pillars. Two of them can be detonated, after which additional nuclei to the gun will appear (4). In the second room of the right wing, immediately from the entrance, turn left and go to the corner. Use the hopping device to reach the secret area with health (5). Find the rectangular structure next to this secret. On its roof there is a mobile platform. By shooting at it, you will find yourself in a secret room (6).
Jump into the spike pit, and an invisible teleport will throw you into the corridor that you saw behind bars during the passage of the right wing (7). But keep in mind that repeating this trick more than once is not worth it.
Go to the small door that is on the left side of the exit from the level. So you will find yourself in a hidden secret location.
Yards - Secret Area
There are 10 secrets hidden in this location:
- Eat the pill that lies to the right of the entrance, and move on. In the small corridor, do not touch the trophies, otherwise you will not reveal all the secrets. Get to the hall with the pool and break the column standing in the middle.
- Go to the left courtyard of the Sphinx. Open the door and immediately run to the rising platform and shoot at it.
- There is another cache hidden in this courtyard. To open it, click on the lever at the far left wall. A bridge will open behind the pedestal. Click on the lever near it and take the trophies.
- Go to the right yard, and pick up the backpack with ammunition that lies to the left of the entrance. This activates a trap. Fight off enemies and go to the place where the monsters appeared on the clunker. Click on the lever hidden in the alcove, and you will open the entrance to the secret chamber.
- In the right corner of the pyramid lies health.
- A bulletproof vest is hidden in the left corner of the pyramid.
- Return to the courtyard and find the platform pool. Turn the central one to the right and walk along it. Jump to the wall, but do not press the lever, and with it, get to the place where the archanoid was sitting. Take your health and return to the starting point.
- Turn the central platform to the left, go along it and jump up from the lever. Go to the edge and pick up the armor.
- Near the eighth secret, shoot at the square platform that stands to the left in the water.
- Turn the central platform straight and jump up from the lever. Take away the sphinx.
Great Pyramid
In the last location there are three hiding places. But they are available if you play Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter. You will not find secrets in the usual version of the game “Cool Sam” in the Great Pyramid. The first cache is hidden in the square, in the central box, which is located to the left of the entrance. To get the second, take away the armor plate that lies nearby. A trap is activated, and several biomechanoids appear. The last cache lies far in the desert, to the right of the entrance to the pyramid. Focus on the stone head. Next to her you will find health.
Cheats for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
If you want to complete the game "light", then you can use special cheats. To do this, run Serious Sam at least once. Then go to the game folder and find the SeriousSamHD.ini file. Open it with Notepad and replace the line “cht_bEnableCheats = 0” with the number zero by one.
Now, during the start of the game, call the console with the “~” key. In the field that appears, write the following codes for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter:
- cht_bEnableCheats = 1. This cheat will give you access to all weapons, as well as increase the health and damage of your hero to the maximum.
- cht_bEnableCheats = 2. The code activates the "god mode".