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."
Re:Graphics and content (Score:4, Insightful)
I hope they only touched up the graphics, and didn't mess with the gameplay at all. SS:FE and SS:SE were just great games, I had a lot of fun, specially in co-op. For SS2 they made changes to the gameplay, to make it a bit more "modern", and that didn't work out at all. So I hope they left the gameplay as it was.
What made SS1 great? (Score:3, Insightful)
And what made SS2 such a disappointment? Numbers of enemies. Simple as that. Screw graphics and pretty, I want to be swarmed by mindless, soulless, expendable goons to mow down. THAT is Serious Sam! Let the killing be in the 1000 BPMs (bodies-per-minute).
And for god's sake, gimme more than 4 people to play with. 8 was already great. 16 would be awesome. 32 would be just too awesome to not flood the keyboard with ... erh ... coke. Me and my buddies take on the world. Ain't that what every blood-lusting boy dreamt of?
Re:What's the point? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Cool (Score:3, Insightful)
Not even close to being better than SS1+SE. It suffers from consolitis.
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