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Serious Sam II Announced
New York, NY – April 20, 2005 – 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), today announced Serious Sam II, the much-anticipated return of Sam “Serious” Stone to PC and the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft.
“Gamers have been anxiously anticipating a full sequel ever since Serious Sam: The Second Encounter was released back in 2002,” said Christoph Hartmann, Senior Vice President of Publishing for 2K Games. “The frantic action and lighthearted humor of Serious Sam really struck a chord with gamers worldwide, and with a brand new engine and greatly expanded gameplay, we think fans will agree that the return of Sam has been well worth the wait.”
“Our second generation Serious Engine allows us to create characters with over 100 times more detail than the last game,” added Roman Ribaric, CEO of Croteam Ltd, developers of Serious Sam II. “This has allowed us to create huge, lush environments and even crazier enemies than before, without having to scale back the gameplay in any way. Gamers can rest assured that with the capabilities of our new engine, we’re not only going to match the record we set with the first Serious Sam for the most enemies on screen at one time, we’re going to surpass it.”
Serious Sam II will be released for PC and Xbox in fall 2005, and will be showcased at 2K Games’ booth at this year’s E3 Expo. Look for the first details on the game in the June issue of Computer Games Magazine, featuring Serious Sam II as the cover story, on newsstands in early May.
Source: Bluesnews (http://www.bluesnews.com/)
Damn, for a second I thought that the demo for SS2 is out already!
Let me do the honors of posting the pics itself that Sourabh is talking about.
http://img9.echo.cx/img9/4032/serioussam2ingame20sk.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img9.echo.cx/img9/603/serioussam2ingame37zd.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
http://img9.echo.cx/img9/1539/serioussam2ingame6om.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
Oh man... the game line up for the Xbox keeps getting better and better. Thank God I didn't buy the PS2 :).
Hell I'm gonna play the game anyway (as long as it runs on my system that is lol) but I would definitely like to compare the experience to HL2 and DOOM3. Serious Sam borrowed the DOOM style of run and gun action and was a runaway hit. So let's see if it stays true to the priginal ;)
Cool site. Really looking forward to the game release. Nice effect when you roll the cursor over the grenades in the top right corner.
Here is the link to E3 Trailer:
http://files2.worthplaying.com/serioussam2/ss2_e3_640x480.zip
Enjoy!
GA
Maybe because SS then was the proverbial dark horse. It was quite and underrated game when it was released but it managed to shock everyone with the success that it garnered propelling Croteam from small fry to big fish of the gaming industry. Hope SS2 just reinforces their stand.
Croteam did a lot of optimisation on this game so it runs well on relatively mid-range PCs.
Did ya all had a look at the gun in the 3rd screenie? I wonder what that baby does? Something nasty no doubt!
unfortunately true. Comparisons will happen. But surprisingly very few comparisions happened with SS and others. Lets hpe the same happens with SS2 which will be as it should be "Pure Mayhem" ;)
YIPPPEEEEEE!!!!! :D.... after my main game - ut... this one scores!!... AWESOME GAME - SS-se .. this should be OFF THE HOOK!!
Great! The game should be out in a month :)
GA
knowing SS standards it will def be something very nasty!!
GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY.... AWEEEEEESSSSSOOMMMMMMEEEE
this is some SERIOUS action!! :D hell.. this is no competition to SERIOUS FPS games.. this is SERIOUS FUN!!!!.... JUS WAITIN now...
Hey all u guys ! i hv restarted this forum after searching the SERIOUS SAM Porfessor in this site.. :wink: :wink: but none the less its always gr8 fun to post sumthing interestin' and new after all its SAM's wish !!! :wink: :wink: :twisted: :twisted: Neways jus check out the VEHICALS (yes u heard it rite,) the Vehicals jus introduced in SERIOUS SAM-II, the vehical is named as the HOVER SAUCER
here is the link....:
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/serious-sam-2/628761p1.html
and for all those guys who dont wanna go to the site, heres wats written about our APNA ARTISTE OF THE YEAR,yup Serious SAm-II again dudes: heres the text about the much awaited game of the year:
The original Serious Sam is considered a classic here at GameSpy HQ. Granted, the idea of flooding the screen with waves and waves of enemies wasn't particularly brilliant in itself, but it was done with so much style you had to take notice of the surprise game from Croteam, a developer that virtually no one knew of to that point. Levels were bright and colorful. Bosses were HUGE. The game -- gasp! -- had humor. And it was a mere $20, which was worth it just for the co-op play -- we had one memorable night where we eight of us finished the game in a few hours, and we're still talking about it today.
After the release of The Second Encounter in 2002, however, things have been pretty quiet on the Serious front. Aside from some console versions and a brief showing at GDC, there's been virtually no news on the Serious Sam front until this year's E3, where we got our first in-depth preview of Serious Sam II. This week, the fine folks at 2K Games invaded GameSpy HQ to give us an even closer look at the game, scheduled for release this fall.
Expect a lot of debris whenever Sam's around.
Serious Sam II picks up at the end of The Second Encounter, as Sam chases down the villainous Mental into space. There's some wacky story where the denizens of a planet called Sirius recruit you to gather parts to a medallion to help defeat Mental, but it's really just an excuse to send you planet-hopping and from one frantic firefight to the next.
Along the way, Sam will visit seven different worlds over the course of over forty levels, reportedly longer than both Serious Sam and The Second Encounter combined (more on that shortly). As you might expect, the worlds are bright, colorful locations, starting with a Hong Kong level... or at least what Hong Kong would look like if you put it on another planet and populated it with swarms of bad guys with churning sawblades for hands.
Another level is set in a world of giants, and, bizarrely enough, looks like something ripped straight out of Pikmin. Instead of trees, huge blades of grass form the landscape, occasionally broken up by a empty soup can or some other ginormous object. According to 2K Games, other levels include a planet of Elvis worshippers (!), a King Kong-inspired level, and an obligatory lava level.
The hover saucer is just one of the many vehicles being added for Sam II.
Sam's arsenal is similarly inspired. You can expect the usual array of chainguns, a rocket launcher, grenade launcher and sniper rifle, but it's the more unique weapons that we're guessing will inspire the most excitement. A saw blade weapon shoots out spinning metal wheels of death, and can be rotated vertically to turn it into a potent melee weapon. There's the "Klodovik" bird, which is a parrot-looking thing that carries a bomb and drops it on the nearest enemy ... or you, if you're not careful.The cannonball launcher returns, but this time it's got a pressure gauge and a red siren that hoots and flashes with the cannon is charged and ready to blow. There's also a bomb weapon, which wasn't actually working in the build we were shown, and yet looks so cool that we can't wait to see it in action (kinda like that kung fu Yakuza midget from the Simpsons .... when it goes off, you just know it's going to be cool).
Over forty enemies are planned for Serious Sam II, including our favorites, the screaming kamikaze bombers. Unlike the original Serious Sam, they're no longer headless maniacs with bombs for hands -- now they've got bombs for heads, but they still run at you screaming the entire way. 2K Games also promises more memorable bosses, and told us the developers are aiming to break two videogame records with Serious Sam II: the most enemies on screen at a single time, and the biggest boss ever. As we were told, if you thought the final boss in Serious Sam was huge, expect that to be the size of the enemies BEFORE the final boss in SSII.
One of the biggest additions for the Serious sequel is something that's become commonplace in many shooters: vehicles. And while there will be some predictable mounts like APCs and and turrets, there are more unique vehicles like the Serious surfboard and hoversaucers. The one that looks the most fun, however, is both a vehicle and a weapon: the rollerball. Looking like something out of American Gladiators, it's a large spiked ball that Sam can climb in and push along from the inside, trampling enemies three times his size as he rolls along.
The Rolling Ball allows Sam to steamroll any enemies that get in his way.
(the ROLLING BALL is basically a crystal type ball wich crushes all the MINIONS and Monsters wenever they get in the way of our APNA SERIOUS SAM baba :twisted: )
Croteam reportedly began work on Serious Sam II after the release of the Xbox version in 2002, and the action is a graphics engine that's all-new from the ground up. Despite graphics that are a major leap over the original game, and waves and waves of enemies running across the screen, the framerate held up through the various demo levels that were shown to us. We're already having visions of running through the game in co-op mode, which will once again be supported (thank you!).
Maybe the only thing we'd question about the Sam sequel is the decision to make the game longer and sell it for full price, instead of the $20 nuggets the first two installments were released at. Maybe it's just us, but we're tired of $50 games that lose steam halfway through, and the price and length of Croteam's first two games were something we wish we'd see more of. Apparently, however, the time and larger budget needed to create the new engine meant SSII couldn't be released at a $20 price point, so Croteam's now tasked with keeping things interesting twice as long this time.
On the positive side, it probably won't be much longer before we see how it all turns out. The game is currently scheduled for release this fall, and a demo is scheduled to be released before that. We're ready. Seriously.
Cheers n e-peace,Quench ur THIRSTS for RAW ACTION wich cant get better than this....Ever !!!!! :wink: :twisted: :wink: :twisted: :wink: :twisted:
Great News
IIIII am Loving it ! lol...man those screenies are awesome! Cant wait to get this :)
I just hope XBox 2 is backward compatible with all the games on the XBox. BTW Sourabh gr8 news. Keep it up.
The game is looking gorgeous as before :wink:
Mindless action-I like!!!
Let's see how it stacks up against the likes of UT, HL2, and D3. This is seriously FPS season :P
me waiting for playstation 3.to play metal gear solid and other cool game.xbox sucks.about serious sam2.this is the first time iam playing this game.has good graphics
Hey folks,
Serious Sam II demo is here: Link (http://dlx.gamespot.com/pc/serioussam2/moreinfo_6133948.html?tag=boxcar_pc_download_image )
Wow, the graphics are cool. 8) Enjoy ! :wink:
Hmm the screenies are looking good..err awsome ;)
@nemi , in my opinion SS is a totally diffrent kind of fps and in no way can be compared to hl2,d3,ut etc . it's serious fun ;)
More SS2 screenies:
http://www.2404.org/forums/showthread.php?p=6722#post6722
Enjoy! And drool! ;)
GA
i have just played demo of ss se but i liked it
I think the game engine is pretty scalable. I played comfortably at 1280x800 widescreen on my rig with most eye candy on. The game looks seriously gorgeous!! Just like in the screenshots ;)
knowing SS standards it will def be something very nasty!!
And funky too :wink: Seriously damaging I'm sure :P
played the demo till the end !!!! amazing gameplay !!!
i'll sure get the full version when it comes out !!!
Any of you ppl played the full version and completed it ? May be we can have a mini-review of sort (with no spoilers) :)
GA
Serious Sam II Details
2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software today released a few details about Serious Sam II on their website.
They say the game features over 40 beautiful, expansive levels spread out over 7 unique environments (thick jungles, murky swamps, frozen tundra, futuristic cities, volcanic planets), 45 newly designed enemy types, new vehicular and animal-back combat and graphics, environments and physics that are 100 times more complex than previous Serious Sam games. The game will be showcased at 2K Gamesâ ™ booth at this yearâ ™s E3 and will be released for PC and Xbox in fall 2005.
Source: gamershell (http://gamershell.com/news/21856.html)
Hehe No probs dude. Making it 'Serious Sam II Discussions' would have been better coz I think this topic would be active for some time now till we get the final version in october. Making use of the ongoing thread for all the discussions related to SS II would help one and all.
Cool Screenshots....this just increased the anticipation. When, Oh! when will I have it? ;)
GA
oh man!!!! I'm losing patience real fast... when'll the game get released for PC ????
Serious Sam 2 Demo out
Server Offering Download of the same can be found here (http://files.seriouszone.com/download.php?fileid=1060)
Finished the demo. It's an awesome game. The action is just as intense as it was in the first two games. The graphics are excellent and the weapons are great. It's the same run and gun type of gameplay that SS players will be familiar with.
Any idea on how does it scales on a lower config rig?
Enoonmai has finished the demo, so we can expect a pretty deatiled review from him anytime now. Keep watching this space!
EDIT: Merged the two SS2 threads to avoid confusion.
@Sourabh: Edited the topic of your original post to add "Demo Out". Hope that's not a problem with you. :)
I agree on that!!! But still, comparison is inevitable. It's the entire experience that counts too ;)
Great news! Had lots of fun playing SS:FE/SE :). Waiting for SS2!
Oh Man.. I'm e-a-g-e-r-l-y waitin 4 this game 2 release.. I liked both SS:FE and SS:SE too much...
Just seen the E3 video of SS2 ... man its funky n serious mass massacre..
More 'Serious' Goodness: :)
http://www.tothegame.com/screenshot.asp?id=2948
GA
First Ever Serious Sam 2 Screenshots
Well aren't you all in for a surprise. I wake up this morning and what do I see? What appears to be an in-game screenshot of Serious Sam 2. We have confirmed with Croteam that this is indeed from Serious Sam 2, so enjoy!
Keep checking back regularly for more information and screenshots, as we expect to have a preview of Computer Games Magazine's June issue, featuring Serious Sam 2, very soon.
Source: Serious Zone (http://www.seriouszone.com/)
Official website up and running here (http://www.serioussam2.com/sam_home.html)
The site looks cool in the flash added with the sound effects but seriously not for dialup users. some 400 kb itself on the main page.
The game is slated for release for the PC on Oct. 10
It should be a hell of a game
gr8 post.looks like the game is pretty cool.
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