Serious Sam Remake Coming In Fall 65
Majesco Entertainment has announced that Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD will be coming to Xbox Live this fall, and to the PC sometime later. It's a remake of the original game using the CroTech engine, and it will support up to four player co-op. Joystiq has some screenshots, including a comparison between the old graphics and the new look. "The textures are sharper and cleaner than before. The original's perfectly flat lawns are now replaced with individual blades of grass — and look at that foliage, rendered with some classy Crysis-styled soft focus. Notice the dynamic shadows over our pumpkin-wearing, chainsaw-wielding friend? Now, imagine this level of detail on hundreds of on-screen enemies."
Out of ideas? (Score:3, Informative)
Remake some old awesome game with NEW GRAPHICS! It will sell well! not...
So now they want people to upgrade their graphics cards... not for some awesome gotta have it brand new title? no.. now they want you to upgrade for some OLD ass game!
Remake? So they couldnt come up with any new content after the total mess that was the last serious sam game? well. ok. thats a given. since the original two awesome ones were made by people who no longer work for croteam.
And only 4 player co-op? Um... the old game would handle way more people than that.
Could it sound anymorel like a desperate attempt to cash in on something that WAS good?
Re:Newer Games Should Take Lessons (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Newer Games Should Take Lessons (Score:3, Informative)
I wish more games would take the 'more is more' approach to enemies that Serious Sam did. I loved the HUGE SCREAMING HORDES of bad guys that would try to zerg you down. It was a nice change of pace from, say, Unreal's 'kill a bad guy, which triggers another bad guy, because the engine chokes and dies if two mobs are on the screen at the same time'. And I liked Unreal. More games should have more swarms.
Ditto. There was something very satisfying about fighting 800 monsters on screen at once.