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Serious Sam Remake Coming In Fall

Posted by Soulskill on from the why-so-serious dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Graphics and content by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 3, 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.

  2. Re:What's the point? by francium+de+neobie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmm... back in the day Serious Sam WAS pretty. It was one of those games that would push a TNT2 or Voodoo 3 to the limits. It was the Crisis of the late 90s.