Serious Sam To XBLA, 4 Player Co-Op >

	2009/06/25 9:29:14: Posted by DM
	One of the most stylized shooters of all time, Serious Sam, has legions of devoted fans. Now, the game is set to make its Xbox Live Arcade debut. The game will feature 4 player online co-op, definitely the biggest addition. The graphics have been upped to HD standards, and the usual repertoire of big guns and humor will be present. Click read more for the full info. PRESS RELEASE Legions of long-time fans and a whole new generation of gamers around the world can now experience serious shooting mayhem as Majesco Europe, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced that Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is coming to Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Developed by Croteam, the creators of the Serious Sam franchise, and produced in partnership with Devolver Digital, Serious Sam: The First Encounter is re-tooled and re-vamped in glorious High Definition with an all-new version of the CroTech engine. “We are really excited to update our hero and recreate Sam in stunning high definition for Xbox LIVE Arcade players,” said Roman Ribaric, CEO of Croteam. “The fans have lobbied us hard to do this, so we are stoked about bringing Sam back as big, bold and bad as he ever was.” The game is being produced by Devolver Digital, a brand new production and publishing company based in Austin, Texas, specialising in delivering top quality entertainment to gamers worldwide at affordable prices by any and all means available. “We are almost inappropriately excited that this fun and robust game is our first humble offering to gamers worldwide,” said an unnamed, masked spokesperson for Devolver Digital. “And bridging the gap between the fine folks at Croteam and Majesco feels good too. It’s a long way from Croatia to New Jersey, but worth the walk.” “Xbox LIVE Arcade is an important platform in our overall strategic plan,” said Gui Karyo, Executive Vice President of Operations for Majesco. “Serious Sam has a long history of console success and this graphically enhanced version is a great first title to kick off our Xbox Live Arcade initiative.” Serious Sam HD is not your mother’s generic, large-scale, orchestral scored, Space Marine-themed epic FPS with dialogue that pretends it’s an RPG...instead, Serious Sam HD is a grab you by the jibblies run and gun, twitch FPS: BIG guns, TONS of enemies, 4-Player Online Co-Op and stunningly superfluous HD graphics that rival retail boxed games. You've waited forever but Serious Sam is back from the nether with its award-winning game play that will remind you why you play FPSs in the first place.
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Loved this game on the PC and xbox. Was talkin to some friends last night about this game and today it's announced..........creepy.

I played the hell out of SS on the PC back in the day, and I still have it installed now and play it occasionally, that game is beyond awesome.

XBox 1 version was, unfortunately, far from awesome, so hopefully they don't go that route again.

Also, would like to see this on the PS3, wonder what the chances of that are.

Also, PC version had mad cool coop, I want to say like 8 people at least? Croteam's mulitplayer code was pretty janky, but when it worked, it was great.

I played both the PC and xbox version and don't see how the xbox version was a bad port.

The PC version was 16 player co-op and the xbox was 2 player over system link. Loved both and really I thought the net code for SS1 was solid over my slow DSL back then.