Valley of the Kings

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Valley of the Kings
General information
location	Valley of the Kings, Egypt
Date	1378 BC
Objective	Obtain the Fire Element.
Par time	30 minutes
Secrets	2 (SS1 & SS:XB) 4 (SSHD & SSVR)
Game information
Previous level	Tomb of Ramses III
Next level	Oasis Moon Mountains (via secret)

Valley of the Kings is the fourth level of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam: Xbox, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter, and Serious Sam Classics: Revolution.

Plot

After capturing the second element, Sam must now fight his way through the Valley of the Kings to the Chambers of Horus, where he will find the Fire Element.

Secrets

1. Blow up all the statues in the level (five in total): this will automatically reveal secret #3.
2. In the room after you pick up the Thompson, once past the door on the front on the left, and you're up the ramp, turn right and look at the corner, you will see a bounce pad. Use the bounce pad to be catapulted onto a platform on the ceiling of the room. Collect the secret armor on the platform.
3. (Serious Sam HD only) Once near the rope bridge in the end, turn right, and follow the health pill path. You will come across a giant spherical rock sticking out of the wall. Shoot it with a rocket to reveal a secret teleport. The rock can only be destroyed if you blow up all the statues in the level.
4. (Serious Sam HD only) After going through the teleport, go through the cave's exit. This will lead you to Moon Mountains.

Related achievements

Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

	There can be only one!
	Kill the Highlander in Valley of the Kings.

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter

	Fire Element
	Obtain the Fire Element.

Serious Sam Fusion

	Fire Element
	Obtain the Fire Element.

Behind the scenes

• The Mamut can be seen in a pre-release screenshot of this level, along with other scrapped enemies.

Trivia

• When passing through the 'Wall of Darkness' in Serious Sam: Xbox, creepy music similar to the music that plays when the Exotech Larva emerges will play.
• In the original version of the game, to get to Moon Mountains, there is a platform-swing that the player can jump on to get across the river and there are nine statues to destroy (five throughout the level and four by the element). In Serious Sam: Xbox, it is done via a cinematic, where Gnaars are apparently filming a movie, and they keep stopping and redoing it to annoy Sam, who then pulls out his minigun and kills them all and destroys their set. In Serious Sam HD, there's a teleporter that the player can use to get to the other side of the river.
• The Tommygun arena reappears in Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem as a secret classic area accessible at the end of the first level, A Smell Of Petroleum Prevails. The main differences are that Aludran Microhoppers replace the Marsh Hoppers, the Juvenile Arachnoid is now a Hatchling Arachnoid, and picking up the Tommygun instead gives the player extra ammo for the AK-74MX.

Gallery

Pre-release

An early screenshot of (presumably) the level with Sam fighting Mamuts and other enemies.