Line #20 AwesomeMusic/SeriousSam


1	Most other first-person shooters had ambient music when ''Serious Sam'' was released. However, Damjan Mravunac, the main composer for the entirety of the ''Serious Sam'' series, went directly for something fitting for action, and kept following. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic And it paid off, big time]].
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4	%% * Can't mention ''The Second Encounter'' without [[https://youtu.be/RQMCAdMadMY the Grand Cathedral theme!]]
5	%% * [[https://youtu.be/VEPFCvqogts Ugh Zan III's boss theme.]]
6	%% * [[https://youtu.be/zV7gnG2mwN4 The Great Pyramid.]]
7	%% * The [[https://youtu.be/TvxNyxMEivA Mental Institution theme]] in ''Serious Sam II''.
8	%% * [[https://youtu.be/qZJ-rFYz208 The "Fight" section of Greendale]] is a good, epic throwback to the original games' soundtrack in the series.
9	%% * [[https://youtu.be/_WfFjMufC_w The main menu theme]] of ''Next Encounter''. While it's not the best soundtrack from the Serious Sam series, it sure gets you pumped up for action.
10	%% * [[https://youtu.be/O7UFcQjuvdQ Boss Fight Strings]] from ''Serious Sam 3: BFE'', which is a musical callback to Dunes Medium.
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12	!!Serious Sam 1
13	[[AC:VideoGame/SeriousSamTheFirstEncounter]]
14	* "[[CatchPhrase Let's get SERIOUS!]]" Nothing sets off TheWarSequence like "[[https://youtu.be/DErvM3QzXxg WAA]][[https://youtu.be/BD8-k5NhOW0 AAA]][[https://youtu.be/o46Rbcej5KU AAA]][[https://youtu.be/PEjayNWB8E8 AAA]][[https://youtu.be/7aBAy9cOdKM AAR!]]"
15	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhosXYd6Qjg Dunes]]" is without question the most iconic track in the entire franchise. Not so much the ambient tune, which is a perfectly fine mood-setter in its own right, but the combat Medium steals the show. It is not only featured in one of the game's best levels, but it has been remixed several times in subsequent entries.
16	* The [[https://youtu.be/W6KtRtczhh0 Great Pyramid]] is also brilliant. ([[https://youtu.be/zV7gnG2mwN4 Better quality, but slightly different version of the same tune]].)
17	* The final boss is accompanied by a track simply called [[https://youtu.be/_BG1wtCdnEU "Ugh Zan III"]]. It's like a rock version of ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Awesome!
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19	[[AC:VideoGame/SeriousSamTheSecondEncounter]]
20	* The absolutely awesome [[https://youtu.be/d6GR7brWjwk "Jingle Bells" remix]] from the level [[Awesome/VideoGameLevels "Land of the Damned"]].
21	* The [[https://youtu.be/RQMCAdMadMY Grand Cathedral]]. An unexpected but undeniably good deviation from the rest of the game's pieces, perfectly fitting for the final level of the game. So good that [[MundaneMadeAwesome it will make anything you do epic while listening to it]].
22	* All three boss themes are instrumentals provided by the Croatian heavy metal band Undercode and all of them are absolute bangers:
23	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKNI0KnvYM Kukulkán's theme]] is made of equal parts of badassery and ThePowerOfRock, perfect for a test in combat from an actual Mayan deity.
24	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSfHTTl3YGE Exotech Larva]] has a pulse-pounding track fitting for fighting a monstrous failed experiment underneath the Tower of Babil.
25	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCZhTkad_A Mordekai's theme]], as much of an AntiClimaxBoss as he is, gives the fight a great sense of finality for a long adventure.
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27	!!VideoGame/SeriousSamII
28	The audio team got the music right in ''Serious Sam 2'', too.
29	* Planet [[https://youtu.be/BVlsWvVTqTw Doomed Canyon Fight]] takes an earlier riff and puts a darker tone to it.
30	* The [[https://youtu.be/9vY_lqjMaBA Greendale]] level theme has the orchestra kicking in. [[https://youtu.be/qZJ-rFYz208 Specially during the fight]].
31	* The [[https://youtu.be/ZPk_BwvD2vs final level]] music which rivals the ones found in last level in other installments.
32	* [[https://youtu.be/DYt-9ZJB56E Mdigbo - City Metropolis.]]
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34	!!VideoGame/SeriousSam3BFE
35	* The game gets a powerful RealSongThemeTune in the form of Music/{{Undercode}}'s neck-breaking piece of HeavyMetal, [[https://youtu.be/bqsIyJfwDp4 "Final Fight"]]. [[ProgressiveInstrumentation Starting with a hard riff that gives way to hard-hitting bass and drum]], this mid-tempo will have you headbanging to no end.
36	* How does ''BFE'' actually start? With [[https://youtu.be/CE8EhjN-WIY "Wild Life"]], a neat rock song ideal for travelling on a motorbike, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong eerily similar to]] Music/{{Steppenwolf}}'s classic "Born to be Wild". This song is reused in the teaser trailer for ''VideoGame/SeriousSam4'' and just to point out the similarity, it also begins with Sam riding on a motorbike.
37	* Guardian of Time has a level theme which gets more intense as the player [[https://youtu.be/WHy9DINx2r0 slowly works]] [[https://youtu.be/2Mgqagh391k their way]] [[https://youtu.be/axwN55fdBB8 towards the]] [[https://youtu.be/ubV_cPEIHjw final boss]].
38	* [[https://youtu.be/2hegUgANcTw Boss Fight (Strings)]], which is a remixed version of "Dunes (Medium)".
39	* For your [[TheWarSequence first real taste of horde fighting]] in the mosque, you are greeted with [[http://youtu.be/UrZ3v_EZd4Y Mosque Fight]].
40	* The aptly titled [[TheWarSequence War Themes]]:
41	** [[http://youtu.be/UhHZUmYu7Uo War 1 - Hero]], with its [[https://youtu.be/rIuIdn71r_4 vocal version]], is used in the suitably epic [[http://youtu.be/NeqHkvDCQgg trailer]] and when you fight the first horde of [[ActionBomb Beheaded Kamikazes.]]
42	** [[https://youtu.be/67XoqKoxdNw War 2 - Storm]] plays during the first Warship battle, in which Sam chases off a warship which is stated to be strong enough to require ''strategic weapons'' to take down the hard way.
43	** [[https://youtu.be/9LQS4KnYHXA War 3 - Final Fight]], for when you first fight a Khnum, [[AntiClimaxBoss which plays way too shortly considering how quickly you can kill it with either C4 or the Cannon.]] Song is still epic, though.
44	** [[https://youtu.be/rPIV3VxJIS8 War 4 - Gladiator]], while you have your rematch with the Warship and bring the giant bastard down for good while simultaneously [[OneManArmy pummeling the literal hordes teleporting out of its hatches]].
45	* [[https://youtu.be/-aR1vmwX5gE Temples Fight]] starts out somewhat foreboding before eventually picking up. It is especially well suited for The Power Of The Underworld, the level it appears in, as monsters usually don't start spawning until the intensity picks up.
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47	!!VideoGame/SeriousSam4 / Siberian Mayhem
48	[[AC:Main Game]]
49	* [[https://youtu.be/p4YyEltSAV8 Vatican Suite]] starts as a peaceful track which wouldn't feel out of place in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', then becomes pure fucking badassery with HeavyMetal music mixed with OminousLatinChanting and orchestra when the fight starts. It is so awesome, in fact, that it was played ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3XARo7wTp8 on Croatian national television]]''.
50	* The [[https://youtu.be/_k7EpIYHOJM "Jingle Bells" Remix]] played during the Christmas event selectable in the options is a Hard Rock track very reminiscent of the one used in ''The Second Encounter'' level "Land of the Damned".
51	* [[https://youtu.be/bn-AM7fPFj4 Hero Too]], a remixed version of "Hero" that plays during TheWarSequence before the final boss fight of ''4'', featuring guitar work from [[Music/NineInchNails Robin]] [[Music/GunsNRoses Finck]].
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53	[[AC:Siberian Mayhem]]
54	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMOYLpha29w Freedom Too]], a remix of the Kukulkan the Wind God boss theme from ''The Second Encounter'', with added dramatic Latin chanting and orchestra, for the final boss fight of the ''Siberian Mayhem'' DLC.

Context AwesomeMusic / SeriousSam