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Croteam seriously remaking Serious Sam for XBLA [update: It's coming to PC too]

by JC Fletcher on Jun 25th 2009 9:30AM

The Xbox 360 is, of course, a great system for new first-person-shooters, but with XBLA re-releases of games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, it's also becoming the system of choice for classic FPS games. Now Croteam is working on an XBLA version of Serious Sam, called, unsurprisingly, Serious Sam HD.

Publisher Majesco told Eurogamer that the remake, which will "re-imagine The First Encounter," will be available on XBLA late this summer for 1,200 Microsoft Points. The new version will include four-player online co-op.

Though we look forward to blowing up stuff with abandon, we are a bit concerned that this news could mean that the "next Serious Sam FPS game" to which Croteam's CEO referred is actually the first one again.

Update: cdv Software Entertainment AG has confirmed to VideoGamer that the game will also be appearing on PC.

Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD

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Reader Comments (37)

1200 points for 4 player online coop is easily justifiable.

Just don't pull a Castle Crashers network code on us =p

I prefer to say, "don't pull a behemoth on us." Considering that literally none of their games work. Alien Hominid couldn't save for like half a year.

Good fit for XBLA, though the eight-player co-op of the PC original is some of the craziest LAN fun I've had. Too bad this is capped at four.

Why so seri-

Oh god, I'm so sorry, the car was coming so fast and your sister was in the way while your parents died in the hospital and your dog got shot, but anyway, yeah, why so serious?

God damn you Cypher.

This is fantastic news. XBLA/PSN/WiiWare are fantastic places to dump old PC gems, especially simple first person games. I'd really like to see Blood, Dark Forces, and Heretic/Hexen pop up on here eventually, just to finally repurpose my old DOS box.

I couldn't agree more. Blood was one of my all time favorites... Shadow Warrior and Sin would also be excellent additions.

Nice. I pine for the days of wacky, balls-out, mindless FPSes like Serious Sam.

And while we're on the subject, howzabout a sequel to Armed and Dangerous? Hello, Planet Moon Studios? Hello, LucasArts?

Armed and Dangerous remake/port/sequel would rock. I'd love to see Monolith churn out a No One Lives Forever 3/4 as well.

No One Lives Forever was awesome. I never really got into the second one, though.

I'm in the opposite group - I loved No One Lives Forever 2 but never played the first one.

My wife loved those games. I can still remember constantly hearing those damn bombers. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA . . . BOOM!

I was just saying this would make so much sense the other day. Maybe this means a next gen Serious Sam might happen at some point.

This is gonna be great nd at a great price! Cant wait to play it co-op with my friends!

HD graphics are one thing but will Croteam have mastered "rumble" for this version. To the best of my knowledge neither of the previous games had this feature, which I thought was a bit weird. Other than that I can't wait. Loved the original.

We used to annually get together at night on Christmas and do a Serious Sam session with the Christmas theme (Santa hats if I remember)

Pure fun

"Now THAT is a lot of bull!"

That game was full of great one-liners. I actually just starting to replay First Encounter, great game. I might consider picking it up, I dunno since I already own it for PC.

can you turn around fast enough on a joypad though?

some of the fun of this game is just how fast paced it is!

Maybe if they implemented a Doom style 'hold left trigger to sprint' system, so you can turn quicker? However I found on Doom I ended up with cramp in my left finger 'cus I never let go of the trigger!