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MommysBestGames has released a lot of new information about Serious Sam: Double D: XXL on their blog!
Here's a quick list of new features, straight from the blog.
Two-Player Local Cooperative Play - Huff will be the second playable character! Not sure who Huff is?? Check this out.
Gunstacker Upgrades - Shotguns that fire a horde of bees, Prism Lasers, the return of Serious Sam’s trademark Cannon and more!
New Campaign and Challenge Missions - Take to the air in your very own missile-loaded Pterosaur or roll through your foes on a dynamite-powered unicycle!
New and Upgraded Enemy Classes - To balance out all this new firepower we're adding new enemies such as the Torcher Kitty (see below) and the Explosion Eater!
Reworked Level Design and Flow- And to better frame the new enemies, and Gunstacker additions, there's lots of tweaks to each level and to the flow of the game itself (such as an improved checkpoint system).
Voice Acting - Serious Sam's original actor voices Sam, and we have the absolutely bonkers Huff guy, Netricsa to balance out the 'boys', and General Maxilla to add a dash of evil.
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Something to note is that the “Gunstacker Upgrades” mentioned earlier are actually completely new weapons. As in, you can upgrade the guns to make them completely new weapons. Some of the new weapons are a shotgun that shoot bees, a Machine Pistol that lets the player float (finally, the Machine Pistol will be useful!) and the Cannon, which was missing in the original Serious Sam: Double D. These new weapons should make combat more dynamic than it was before.
It seems like Double D: XXL will be a significant upgrade to the original game. If you liked the original, XXL sounds like it'll be a must-buy. Hopefully, the new features in XXL will be ported to the PC version at some point.
Devolver Digital has announced that Serious Sam 3: BFE and Serious Sam: Double D: XXL will appear on Xbox Live Arcade this autumn!
Based on the announcement, the Xbox 360 version Serious Sam 3 will be the same game that PC users have enjoyed for a while, but Double D: XXL will have all-new features, such as two player cooperative, an expanded Gunstacker, and all new levels and missions!
Xbox 360 users will finally be able to experience Serious Sam 3 on the Xbox! I'm sure they're more than ready for the crazy action that SS3 and Double D provide.
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, along with the packages it's in (such as the Serious Sam Complete Pack) have a 75% off discount on Steam in celebration of The Legend of the Beast being released!
Here are the deals:
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter - $5 USD
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Four Pack - $14.99 USD
Serious Sam HD: Double Pack - $7.50 USD
Serious Sam HD: Gold Edition - $10.00 USD
Serious Sam: Complete Pack - $21.75 USD
The discount on the Complete Pack (which includes The Legend of the Beast) is a great deal for people that don't have any or most of the Serious Sam games. If you don't already have the games in it, picking it up is a good idea if you want to save a lot of money and want (nearly) every Serious Sam game ever released.
There's no listed date for when the deal will end, so hurry if you want to take advantage of it!
The Legend of the Beast, the latest DLC for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, has been released! It contains a new campaign that has three levels, three new versus levels and, to top it off, one survival level. It costs a cool $4.99 USD. It's worth it for any Serious Sam HD player, from those that are still beginners to those that've mastered the game.
The Free-to-Play (F2P) version of Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter's versus modes and survival has been released! Now, anyone can enjoy HD TSE versus modes, such as deathmatch, Last Man Standing, Insta-Kill and Capture the Flag, along with being able to play survival mode to get a taste for Serious Sam HD's single player mode. Plus, people that have the F2P version of SSHD can play versus and survival with those that have the complete version!
If you don't have Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and want to try out it's versus and survival modes (or know someone that does), go here and click on the 'Download Demo' button to play the F2P version! You need Steam in order to play it, though.
Gamasutra has interviewedSerious Sam: Double D developer Mommy's Best Games about the Xbox Live version of Double D, called Serious Sam: Double D: XXL. XXL appears to be an enhanced version of Double D that has all new features. Wile the article doesn't give out a lot of info about what's new, the interview does mention that there will be four upgrades for each gun and a few screenshots show what appears to be a two-player co-op mode.
But why port SSDD to the Xbox after it came out on the PC? According to the article:
SSDD was released for Steam in late 2011, but now Devolver has commissioned an Xbox Live Arcade version from Fouts and company, called Serious Sam Double D: XXL (as though the game needed a longer acronym), ahead of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 launches of Serious Sam 3: BFE.
That's pretty clever.
Most of the questions in the interview deal with why Mommy's Best Games created the game on the PC first, then ported it to Xbox, such as this one:
Why bring the game to Xbox Live Arcade? Most developers these days seem to make the game for XBLA, then sell several times more on Steam later.
Serious Sam Double D was initially conceived as a marketing game for Serious Sam 3: Before First Encounter. Delightfully, it ended up getting a lot more fun and bigger than either publisher Devolver Digital or I thought it would be. The initial budget and timeline wasn't huge and we had to pick a target platform. Serious Sam initially launched back in 2001 on PC only. I think it was the best fit still, especially for the fans.
After the game launched on Steam and was well received, XBLA talk began. The Steam price is $8, and to reasonably charge $10 (for XBLA) we've been adding a lot more to the game to expand it. I realize the order of platforms we've released it for seems a little backwards, but I think Double D makes perfect sense on console (playing similar to Contra).
Seeing a PC indie game get ported to the Xbox sounds unusual at first, especially considering that indie games almost always sell much better on Steam than they do on Xbox Live. Hopefully, this little experiment will work out for Mommy's Best Games. Even if it doesn't sell on as well on Xbox Live as it would on PC, the new content sounds like it will be worth it for those that are fans of Double D already.
The article gives no hint as to when Serious Sam: Double D: XXL will be released, but it's a safe bet to assume that it'll come out before the X360 version of Serious Sam 3: BFE does. Let's hope that Mommy's Best Games decides to port the content made for the Xbox version to the PC version as well, either as paid or free DLC.
Croteam has posted a brief update on the Xbox 360 version of Serious Sam 3: BFE on their Facebook page.
Quick update on Xbox 360 Serious Sam 3: BFE regarding questions is it going to be retail or digital distribution - it will be released digitally on Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA).
Seems the Xbox 360 version of Serious Sam 3: BFE won't be published retail. Good news for people that like digital distribution, but bad news for those that like to have physical copies of games.
Amazon is running a huge deal this week on Serious Sam games in their USA storefront. Each Serious Sam game is 75% off, while four packs are from 80% to 83% off!
Here are the deals:
Serious Sam 3: BFE - $9.99 USD
Serious Sam 3: BFE Four Pack - $29.98 USD
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter - $4.99 USD
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Four Pack - $14.99 USD
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter - $3.74 USD
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Four Pack - $9.99 USD
Serious Sam 2 - $2.49 USD
Serious Sam 2 Four Pack - $7.50 USD
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter - $1.24 USD
Serious Sam: The Random Encounter Four Pack - $3.99 USD
Serious Sam: Double D - $1.99 USD
Serious Sam: Double D Four Pack - $5.99 USD
These are the best deals that've appeared for a while. If you want a Serious Sam game or know a friend that wants or would like some, it's a good idea to buy them now to save a lot of money!
GameSpy asked Croteam's CEO, Roman Ribaric about the upcoming DLC they plan to release for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter and Serious Sam 3: BFE. Though brief, it did reveal that the DLC for Serious Sam 3 will likely contain many new maps (just what we wanted to hear)!
GS: It's been almost six months since Serious Sam 3 was released, but there's been no DLC so far. Can you elaborate on what your DLC plans will be (if any)?
Ribaric: We're not quite ready to reveal specifics of our planned Serious Sam 3 DLC, but new campaign missions, survival maps and versus maps are all a safe bet!
Roman also mentioned that someday Serious Sam 3 may get some Free-to-Play-Forever loving! Awesome! Be sure to read the full article here!
Croteam has released an update on how development on the console versions of Serious Sam 3: BFE are going.
Regarding Xbox 360 SS 3, it is in development, so we are on it since PC was released... It does require time to do all kinds of optimizations, first to fit all in memory and to get decent framarate [sic], as 360 is rather old hardware now (512MB RAM, lower range graphics card etc).
Please be patient for around 4 more months for 360, we are doing our best to finish it in that timeframe.
We will then see what can be done with PS 3, as it has 256MB+256MB memory specs, which programmers here rpcomment [sic] as even more programming and optimization work to get it right.
Looks like progress is going well on the Xbox 360 version, but there's still some optimization and other things that need to be done. Hopefully they'll find a way to make a PS3 port work as well.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter HD's versus and survival modes are going free to play on May 15th! A special version of TSE will be released that will allow anyone to play Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Insta-Kill, Last Man Standing, Team Last Man Standing, My Burden, Survival and Team Survival at no cost!
This is an excellent package for those that haven't played a Serious Sam game before. If you have any friends that haven't played a Serious Sam game before, this is the game for them! Who knows, they may even buy the entire game after enjoying some sweet, sweet Deathmatch and Survival.
EDIT: Devolver Digital now states that there will be only one Survival level. The article has been updated to reflect this.
Devolver Digital has announced announced that there will be new DLC for the PC version of Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter on May 15th, 2012! It is named “Legend of the Beast” and features a new mini-campaign, versus and survival levels!
The meat of the DLC is a new campaign with three levels. In it, Sam must find the ram god of The Great Obelisk. Based on screenshots, it seems that the DLC will take place in Ancient Egypt.
Survival and Versus fans will be happy to see that the DLC will add one new level for Survival three new levels for Versus! This is great news, as it gives players of those modes some fresh levels for monster killing and intense fragging.
The DLC will be coming out May 15th and will cost $4.99 USD. Get ready!
For a limited time, GetGamesGo has Serious Sam 3: BFE for $9.99 USD! It costs the same for both the PC and Mac versions. The date the deal ends doesn't seem to be listed, so make sure to get on it soon if you want Serious Sam 3 at a great price!
Serious Sam 3: BFE has been updated to play on Macs! Now Mac users can enjoy the crazy action SS3 provides without having to use third-party programs.
As a bonus, Serious Sam 3: BFE has been discounted by 66% for both PC and Mac buyers! It currently costs a nice $13.60, while the Deluxe upgrade costs $3.40. This deal ends April 30th, so you have a decent amount of time to take advantage of this deal.
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