Why So Serious...Sam? Serious Sam HD Coming to XBLA

Nicholas "bapenguin" Puleo June 25th, 2009 at 11:31 AM

About a month ago we told you that Croteam was hard at work on a new Serious Sam title based on a brand new graphical engine. A new Serious Sam game was announced today, but not being developed by Croteam, instead new developer Devolver Digital. The game is called Serious Sam HD, and it's a remake of the original on the new Serious Engine 3.

The game will feature online cooperative play for 4 players through 12 levels.

Here's the official description:

Serious Sam HD is not your mother's generic, large-scale, orchestral scored, Space Marine-themed epic FPS with dialog 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.

The game is set to come out on the Xbox Live Arcade this summer for 1200 .

Update: CDV has revealed a PC version is in the works as well and will be available this autumn via Digital Download and retail.

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10 Total Reader Comments

smurphster at 08:22 AM on 6.25.2009

liking the price, but no split screen? definitely would have enjoyed playing this with my wife... arg

i always thought even the first game looked fantastic even on low-end PCs, now its even more beautiful.

DjinniMan at 08:28 AM on 6.25.2009

SOLD!

Brainp0wa at 08:34 AM on 6.25.2009

Agreed. If the wife can't play, then I won't pay!

phrozenfearz at 08:38 AM on 6.25.2009

The original allowed for 4 player split-screen!

smurphster at 08:43 AM on 6.25.2009

on pc even!

Dodomaster at 11:29 AM on 6.25.2009

and 16 player coop(on pc)

smurphster at 11:30 AM on 6.25.2009

regardless of how cool that is, i can do w/o it. i can't live w/o split screen though

ong_elvin at 10:04 PM on 6.25.2009

Only 12 areas? Or do they mean 12 missions made up of several levels each?

smurphster at 06:07 AM on 6.26.2009

you've never played the original? the levels are MASSIVE and you'll take out 100's (maybe even 1000's) of enemies in each level. not to mention the absurdly huge bosses.

ong_elvin at 07:21 PM on 6.26.2009

I've played the original, and I know they're Xbox hueg. I'm just wondering what they've defined as a "level." Would all the parts of the Thebes segment be considered a single level, or multiple levels?

Or put another way, Super Mario Bros has 8 worlds with 4 levels each. When Developer Digital says "12 levels" do they mean "3 environments with 4 levels each" or do they mean "12 environments with 4 levels each?"