Almost every Serious Sam fan knows and remembers the Classic versions of the first two Serious Sam games. However, the Classic games have had some technical issues as the years go by. They don’t have support for widescreen monitors, the editor doesn’t work in 64 bit operating systems, and there’s even a strange bug where the Laser Gun and Minor Biomechanoids will fire slower during the middle of the game. There are ways to get past most of these issues, but they require doing things like tinkering with .ini files or running the game in a virtual system.
These days will be over! Angelo, with support from Croteam, is working on an all-new version of the classic Serious Sam games called Serious Sam: Revolution that’ll be coming to Steam! On the technical side, this new version has:
Native support for widescreen resolutions.
Serious Editor working on 64-bit OSes!
Server tags so that people can see what servers have things like friendly fire enabled or not.
Missing content will automatically be downloaded if someone gets on a server and they don’t have the needed content.
Mutators set by servers!
Wait a minute, lots of Sam fans have the classic games. Why should they bother with what appears to be a technical update? Well, Angelo and friends have added some new game content to make it worth it! They’ve added:
The First Encounter and The Second Encounter in one game!
A new but small campaign!
New versus maps that are a mix of maps from Warped DM and all-new levels!
Survival, Capture the Flag and Team DM gamemodes!
An all-new weapon called the Ghostbuster that fires a constant beam of energy to turn enemies into paste!
That’s all good, but why should someone replay the classic games again in Revolution? Angelo and Croteam have answered that by adding:
Achievements!
Leaderboards!
Valve Anti-Cheat!
These should make it fun to run through the original games again. They’re also working on adding Steam Workshop support so that it’s easy to install custom maps and skins, but no promises.
Angelo and Croteam are working hard to give the Classic Sam games a fresh breath of air. No release date nor price (if there will be one) has been announced, but we’ll let you know as soon as it’s announced!
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В общи линии класическите FE и SE (от 2001-ва и 2002-ра) ще бъдат преиздадени като една нова, цяла, неделима игра, която освен класическото съдържание ще съдържа в себе си и неща дебютирали в HD като новите мултиплеър режими, ачийвмънти и класации. Освен това, енджинът ще предлага редица технически подобрения спрямо оригинала, като поддръжка на широкоекранни монитори в резолюция 16:9, поддръжка на 64 битови ОС за едитора, VAC античийт. Все още няма release дата, както и дали ще е безплатна или платена.
