CROTEAM, FORMER GAMECOCK CREW BRINGING SERIOUS SAM TO XBOX LIVE ARCADE
A bunch of names I wasn’t quite expecting to come up against today: casual powerhouse Majesco has sent word that Serious Sam — the cult classic tongue-in-cheek PC shooter from Croatia’s Croteam — is currently being remade and will be re-released for Xbox Live Arcade (and, later, PC) this summer as Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD.
Development duty on the game is being done by Austin upstart Devolver Digital, which, it turns out, is the latest venture from former Gamecock heads Mike Wilson and Harry Miller.
If Serious Sam passed you by on its original 2001 release, chances are you also weren’t a reader of Old Man Murray, the long-favorite PC games blog run by Chet Faliszek (who you’ll be hearing more from on Offworld soon) and Erik Wolpaw — two names that should now be familiar to Valve fans as the reason Left 4 Dead and Portal are so well written and designed.
The site tirelessly championed the game on its original release, and made the rest of us aware that for as much as Sam was an uncomplicated, straightforward shooter, it was fantastically so, and featured what remains one of my favorite cheat modes in gaming history: the hippie mode that replaced blood splatter with a floral bouquet, and meaty gibs with hamburgers and fruit (above).
Majesco says the “run and gun, twitch FPS” will offer “BIG guns, TONS of enemies, 4-Player Online Co-Op and stunningly superfluous HD graphics” later this summer.
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