The Reeban Electro-Fish is an aquatic enemy that attacks the target by disorienting them with electrical charges. It first appears in Serious Sam: The First Encounter, and makes more appearances in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter.
Overview[]
The Electro-Fish belongs to a species of water-dwelling, piranha-like aliens that originate from the planet Reeb. They have a greenish-orange coloration, and have two large eyes and a gaping mouth with multiple rows of sharp teeth. They are equipped with an organ that enables them to attack their prey with electric shocks.[1]
Appearances[]
Being aquatic enemies, Electro-Fish are common wherever there are bodies of water, such as lakes or pools. They often appear alone or in small to medium groups. Like Kleer Skeletons, they will sometimes spawn as a trap when the player picks up an item underwater.
Serious Sam: The First Encounter[]
In The First Encounter, Electro Fish first appear in Valley of the Kings, and then in almost every level onwards that features water; however, their appearances in Valley of the Kings and Moon Mountains are missable.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter[]
In The Second Encounter, they first appear in Sierra de Chiapas and make their final appearance in The Citadel. Electro-Fish of various sizes also appear in a secret yard in The City of the Gods.
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter[]
Electro-Fish are fairly common enemies in the game. They first appear in Temple Entrance and are encountered in small to medium-sized groups throughout the game in random encounters, usually whenever the player enters a body of water.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem[]
The Electro-Fish reappears in the expansion pack for Serious Sam 4, albeit only as a secret where it appears in a small but deep hole on the icy lake found in the Hide and Seek sidequest in Siberiade. Because the hole is deep and the player runs out of oxygen very quickly, there is little time for the player to return to the surface without dying after encountering the Electro-Fish. Should the player wish to encounter the Electro-Fish, they should preferably have very high total health and armor.
Behavior and skills[]
On their home planet, the Electro-Fish is a ferocious hunter that feasts upon smaller aquatic creatures. They have an effective camouflage that helps to conceal themselves, which enables them to sneak up on their prey.[1] Electro-Fish are very fast and efficient swimmers and are to easily catch up with their targets, making swimming away from them extremely difficult unless the player exits the water or kills them. They make loud gurgling sounds when idle, which can alert the player to their presence.
Electro-Fish are aggressive creatures and will attack the target on sight. Upon spotting the target, it will rapidly swim towards them and fire an electrical attack at them from its mouth; this attack can disorient or knock back the player and make it difficult to see what is happening underwater when being attacked.
Despite the Electro-Fish's dangerous attack method, it has very low health and can easily be taken out with small-arms fire or a single shotgun blast. As it is an aquatic enemy, if an Electro-Fish is exposed to air and stays on the ground for too long, it will eventually die from lack of oxygen.
Tactics[]
Serious Sam: The First Encounter/Serious Sam: The Second Encounter[]
- Electro-Fishes can attack the player even if they are on the ground if they are very close to one.
- Due to the ability of their electric attacks, this can make the Electro-Fish very dangerous in groups, as a constant barrage of the electric shocks will disorient the player's vision, making it difficult for the player to fight back without losing a lot of health and/or armor, especially on higher difficulties.
- In the classic versions of the game, the Electro-Fish's electric shock can deal more than the standard 15 base damage and even gib the player if it kills them.
- Both individual Electro-Fish and groups of them can easily be taken out with the Thompson submachine gun, XM214-A Minigun, and XL2 Lasergun. Their good rate of fire allows the player to quickly eliminate them without wasting ammo.
- Single Electro-Fish can be taken out with the 12 Gauge Pump-Action Shotgun with ease. It usually takes about one or two shots to kill an Electro-Fish with it. Close-range shots will always result in a instant kill.
- If a few Electro-Fishes are grouped together, a rocket or grenade can eliminate the entire group in one hit.
- The XOP Flamethrower is useless against this enemy, especially since they are encountered in water and the flamethrower will obviously be ineffective.
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem[]
- In custom levels featuring the Electro-Fish as an enemy, the A-24 Devastator, Autoshotgun and TCC-2 "Perun" Crossbow are highly effective against large groups of them.
Behind the scenes[]
- Earlier trailers, videos and promotional scheenshots show an earlier design of the Electro-Fish sporting a much paler, brownish-white color palette.[2]
- The Electro-Fish got its name from Croteam CEO Roman Ribarić's nickname - "Riba" (pronounced reeba). "Riba" is also the Croatian word for fish.
- The Electro-Fish's electricity projectile and sound is reused from the scrapped XL4-P 'Ghostbuster' Beam Gun which was later brought back in Serious Sam Classics: Revolution.
- Its sounds are reused from the scrapped "Fishman" enemy.
Trivia[]
- The Electro-Fish can be gibbed and gib the player in the classic versions of The First Encounter and The Second Encounter, but not in the HD or VR ports or in any subsequent releases. This is due to the Electro-Fish electrical discharge attack's damage type being changed to Punch in Serious Sam HD (which can never gib players regardless of the amount of damage) and the Electro-Fish lacking a proper destruction configuration.
- It is possible for the Electro-Fish to knock the player back without damaging them in the classic games.
- In pre-Serious Sam Fusion releases, an on-screen obituary message reading "[player name] was electrocuted by a fish." will appear if a player is killed by an Electro-Fish in cooperative modes.
- The Electro-Fish is based on the Snacker, a fish-like schema thought up by Mental that appears as an enemy in Serious Sam: Tormental.
Gallery[]
Serious Sam 1’’[]
Pre-release[]
Retail[]
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter[]
List of appearances[]
- Serious Sam: The First Encounter (First appearance)
- Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
- Serious Sam: Xbox (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam: The Random Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam Classics: Revolution (non-canonical appearance)
- Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem (Easter Egg only)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 NETRICSA description
- ↑
Serious Sam: The First Encounter trailer on YouTube
