Croteam making Serious Sam for XBLA
HD revamp this summer for 10 quid.
Majesco has told Eurogamer that Serious Sam will return this summer on Xbox Live Arcade.
Late summer, specifically, for 1200 Microsoft Points (GBP 10.20 / EUR 14.40).
Dubbed Serious Sam HD, the game will re-imagine The First Encounter, and be created by original developer Croteam.
The chaotic first-person shooter, where enemies spawn and overwhelm from every angle, will return with online co-op for four friends. The surreal Egyptian setting will be spread across 12 levels, and we're promised dazzling, revamped visuals.
The charm of Serious Sam, which first appeared on PC in 2001, forms around controlling the swarms of baddies that are triggered when collecting ammo or reaching a new areas. There are bulls that charge, headless baddies that blow-up, ranged attackers, skeletal horse monsters and enormous bosses.
Sam's arsenal is as over-the-top as the situation, but deciding what to use and what to kill while dodging and scrapping is another matter. It's brilliant.
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Another game to add to my insanely long list of games I want on XBLA.
I seem to be buying more XBLA games these days than I am full price games these days...
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So much fun in co-op.
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Fantastic.... I remember many a lunchtime LAN co-op game on this back in the day... Enjoyed the Xbox vers the other year - one I'll definately be getting for me 360 xbla library
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Not really. I played the xbox version as well and it held up pretty well.
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Well done
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Running over a sandy hill, one lone skeleton creature comes a long which you take out and continue up the hill and think 'This is too easy". Two seconds later, an entire army of the buggers comes charging at you! Run!!!
Good stuff.
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Have had system link games with a combination of original xboxes and 360s
Will still get the HD revamp thought !!
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XBLA:
1. Sit on couch in front of big telly.
1. Click Download.
2. Send game invite to buddy.
3. Play/enjoy/loose badly.
PC:
0. Sit on a corner of a room in an office desk.
1. Look for the game *somewhere*
2. Install.
3. Do the patching *thing*
4. Do some more patching.
5. Check the foruns for *that* problem that your particular GPU has with the game.
6. Phone a friend and beg to play with you.
7. Play alone for 10 minute.
8. Give up, go play 360/PS3.
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Anyway, Serious Sam games are awesome. I was, just the other day, wondering what had happened to Croteam. I hope there's an SS3 in the works!
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I can give you that, though I'm in for the thrils, not so much for the kills. Disclaimer: that's me though, I can understand the "pros", no judging here.
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But, that was two games: TFE and TSE. If they are giving only TFE (and maybe not even all of it, as I recall the original game was more than 12 levels), maybe 1200 points is a bit of a stretch. And TSE was superior anyway, so...
Though I wonder what does that mean when they said "reimagining". Maybe it will be worth it even if you already have the PC or Xbox games. I'll be checking it out, as I am a fan of the series.
@miiiguel: well, come on now. I remember, both Serious Sams never had any problem on my PC. Even now on Win7 and HD4670, they work just fine from installation. Though if you want it, you have to manually set widescreen mode in the ini file, but that's only once. I'll admit coop is pretty good though, I played it once in LAN and it was great fun.
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That has already proven to be a false statement in cross platform releases like Lost Planet. If your good with the controller you wouldnt dream of using a keyboard and mouse. I use that enough at work.
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Well, maybe if you want to, idk... "play it again riz23" ?
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I really liked Serious Sam Coop, but I don't see me playing it from the couch. The action is just too frantic to be not right in front of the screen. Also 1200 pts are always a major downturn to me.
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That "bull charging" moment was awesome!
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I's a good time for downloadable games.
Which is nice cos it's a pretty crap time for boxed product.
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I's a good time for downloadable games.
Which is nice cos it's a pretty crap time for boxed product.
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Exactly!
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They did for the Xbox versions. Hopefully they'll do the same for this one as well.
But I'd be lying if I said I didn't want them to focus on the Live co-op side of things this time. That was never an option in the Xbox release, and if anyone desperately needs split-screen that version is backwards compatible anyway.
Live co-op on Serious Sam. Hell yeah!
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Sorry, I can't help it. Spelling is most definitely not correct.
I know it shouldn't, but this really winds me up. Especially when it's proclaimed that it is correct and not done by accident. Even some journalists have started doing this. It's wrong, simple as.