A new Serious Sam indie game named Serious Sam: The Greek Encounter has been released! Developed by Eric Ruth, the mind behind indie demakes of popular series such as Team Fortress Arcade and Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead, The Greek Encounter is a top-down shooter similar to Smash TV that places Serious Sam against Mental's forces in Ancient Greece. A blend of Smash TV and Serious Sam sounds like a perfect match, since they're both all about shooting a lot of bad guys.
If you want to watch the game in action, watch this video:
You can get The Greek Encounter via the Indie Royale Bundle , along with other Serious Sam games, or purchase it on Desura for just $.99 USD.
The Indie Royale has a new deal featuring all of the games from the Serious Sam Indie Series (Double D, Kamikaze Attack and The Random Encounter), the original Serious Sam: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter, plus an all-new indie game called The Greek Encounter! The Greek Encounter is an overhead shooter where Sam fights through Ancient Greece while fighting off Mental's forces.
This bundle has a somewhat unusual pricing scheme. The closer the deal gets to it's end, the higher the price will be. However, if someone buys the deal for a large amount of money (ex. Someone pays $10 USD for the package when it's $4 USD), the price will decrease. Currently, the price is set at $4.21 USD, which is an excellent price for 6 games!
This deal ends around 94 hours from now, so try to get it before the price gets too high!
Want Serious Sam 3: BFE? 2bitGamers is giving out five copies of Serious Sam 3 on January 14th for free! Go here, then post a comment with "I want Serious Sam 3" in it, and you'll be entered into a raffle. On January 14th, they'll select five people that posted "I want Serious Sam 3" and give each one a copy of Serious Sam 3! If you don't have SS3 yet, then entering this contest is a good idea!
Two new items have been added to Serious Sam 3: BFE's Steam page; the Four Pack and an upgrade to the Deluxe edition. The Four Pack lets you buy four copies of Serious Sam 3 at once so that you can give out extra copies to your friends, and the Deluxe version upgrades the standard edition so that it has extra goodies included with the Deluxe version, such as the soundtrack, art book, “making of” video and wallpapers! The Deluxe upgrade is an excellent if you purchased the standard edition, but now want the goodies from the deluxe edition. The Four Pack costs $119.97 USD, while the Deluxe upgrade costs $9.99 USD.
In Kotaku's Speak Up section, which lets their readers contribute articles for the site, one of their readers has posted an interesting article about why he thinks Serious Sam 3: BFE is the perfect game.
For him, one of the things that makes Serious Sam 3 perfect is it's difficulty and it's relationship with the game's health pack-based health system. Serious Sam 3 is quite difficult for him, even in Normal difficulty, but that's what makes it great to him. He states that, at the start of the second level, he had 25 armor and 100 health. However, when he got out of it, he had 6 health. His low health made the game play much differently, as he had to be cautious and a bit slower than he would with a lot of health. He notes that this type of dynamic gameplay wouldn't be possible if the game had regenerating health because he could easily get back to 100 health by hiding for a few seconds. By giving him a limited amount of health, it made him a better player.
He also believes it's perfect because it makes the player think in ways that's not usually expected in shooters these days. Often, the player has to do things such as consider how many enemies are on screen, what they can do, and what the player can do, then base their actions on those factors. This doesn't sound that difficult, but when you consider how many enemies are usually on screen at once, this can be quite taxing on the brain. Plus, the large weapon selection adds another layer to the decisions the player has to make, as the player has to determine what weapon will work best while considering the above factors. He feels that, despite SS3's gameplay looking dumb at first glance, it's actually one of the smarter FPS games out there.
While he admits the writing and the voice acting isn't the best, he feels that the difficulty and gameplay make it the perfect game. Do you agree or disagree?
Today's the last day for the Steam Christmas Sale , and the Serious Sam games are a part of the “encore” deals! These encore deals are repeats of some of the biggest selling deals throughout the entire event, so the excellent deals on the Serious Sam games are back for today only! Serious Sam 3: BFE is $19.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Gold is $3.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Double Pack costs $2.99 USD, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter costs $1.49, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter costs $1.99 USD, Serious Sam: Double D costs $1.99 USD and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter costs $1.24 USD! If you didn't take advantage of these deals before, this is another chance to do so!
To all the Serious Sam fans worldwide we would like to thank you for wwebsiting with us through 2011 and we look forward to seeing you again, and again, in 2012!
The big Serious Sam sale ends tomorrow. Congrats to you for keeping Serious Sam 3: BFE the #1 top seller!
Today's daily Steam Christmas deal has huge savings on Serious Sam games! Serious Sam 3: BFE is $19.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Gold is $3.99 USD, Serious Sam HD Double Pack costs $2.99 USD, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter costs $1.49, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter costs $1.99 USD, Serious Sam: Double D costs $1.99 USD and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter costs $1.24 USD! These amazing deals last today only, so get them if you've been holding out on getting Serious Sam 3: BFE, the indie games, or the HD remakes!
Plus, Serious Sam 3: BFE has an achievement for today's Steam Great Gift Grab! It's Christmas in Cairo, and the goal is to stick a Kleer skull, a Beheaded Rocketeer heart, and a Gnaar eye on a Christmas tree that's near the end of the first level. Get it, and you'll receive either a gift or a piece of coal that's actually an entry for a huge raffle at the end of Steam's Christmas sale!
Depending on what floats your boat, some of you may be into connecting various controllers to your PC to play video games, including Serious Sam 3. In case any of you were interested in the Avenger Controller, you may want to have second thoughts after seeing how they deal with customers, routinely berating them and cussing them out. The best part comes when Penny Arcade gets involved and tells the company they'll never, ever, be allowed a booth at PAX:
From: Mike Krahulik
To: Ocean Marketing
Dec 26, 2011 at 9:08 PM
I am mike krahulik, Pax is my show. Feel free to google me=) I can promise you that you will never have space at any future Pax event.
From: Ocean Marketing
To: Mike Krahulik
Dec 26, 2011 at 9:33 PM
OK Mike whatever you say lol , are you sure hour not in Boston I spoke to the person who ran the show in Boston last year. If you let some little kid influence you over a pre order then we don’t want to be a your show ,Ill be on the floor anyway so come find me , I’m born and raised in Boston I know the people who run the city inside and out watch the way you talk to people you never know who they know it’s a small industry and everyone knows everyone. Your acting like a douchbag not that it matters pax east pax west , e3 , CES , Gamer Con , SSXW ,Comic Con, Germany I’m all over the place. If we want to be there we will be there with industry badges or with a booth you think I can’t team up with turtle beach , Callibur or Koy Christmas , I can’t get Kevin Kelly to pull some strings or G4 , Paul Eibler Ex CEO of take 2 , Rich Larocco Konami , Cliff Blizinski Epic who were working with on a gears version , Activision who were working with on a MW3 and Spider man Bundle , The Convention Center Owners themselves , Mayor of Boston come on Bud you run a show that’s all you do and lease a center in Cities you have no pull in its all about who you know not what you do. I’ll see space where ever I want , with who I want when I want and where I want so many ways around you and so many connections in this industry its silly. Anyway , I have no issue with you Sean Buckley Engadget, Scott Lowe IGN and the list goes on and on. Little kids unhappy with a PRE ORDER starting trouble and you email that to us , he’s a customer unless you’re his boyfriend then you should side with the company not the customer. Be Careful
Read more about the best PR campaign in history at Penny Arcade.
All of us at Seriously! would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and we would like to give a big thank you to all of those who have made this a great year for Serious Sam! By purchasing the games, playing them, and talking about them on our forums and elsewhere you have been a powerful driving force keeping this franchise alive and well. Thank you!
To celebrate this Christmas we have an excellent promo video put together by Devolver Digital. Enjoy!
If you haven't already bought Serious Sam 3: BFE then you should grab it while it is still on sale! It is available through many services like Get Games and Steam. The sales end January 2nd, so act now!
Serious Sam: Double D is one of VentureBeat's top ten indie games of 2011! It managed to get in fourth place out of ten, which is very impressive, especially when you consider the competition. It got onto the list because of a mixture of “dumb” fun it has and the creative Gunstack system, which lets the player make their own combination of guns from guns they've found in levels. It may lack the emotional story and deep writing that some people expect in indie games, but Double D manages to be pure fun by letting you do things like slice up a dinosaur with four chainsaws stacked on top of each other. Congratulations to Mommy's Best Games, Double D's developer!
In keeping up with other Serious Sam holiday deals, Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack has been discounted to 99 cents USD during the holiday season for both iOS and Android! If you have an iPhone or Android phone and haven't tried out it out yet, now is a great time to get it!
Mischievous has released the first custom Serious Sam 3: BFE survival level and it looks great! It's named Survival in the Morning and takes place in what appears to be an archaeological dig site uncovering an ancient Sirian temple. The level looks absolutely gorgeous with excellent lighting and great-looking architecture. It's amazing that a level this good-looking has come out so soon.
Gameplay-wise, the level has weapons such as the Cannon, Minigun and Lasergun scattered through out the level, making things a bit hectic as the player has to find new weapons while trying to fight off enemies at the same time. Enemies include the Red Biomechanoid, Werebulls and Beheaded Kamiakzes, along with a few surprise Harpies, Khnums and some minor enemy types to mix things up once in a while.
It looks and plays great, which makes it a must play who want more survival levels in Serious Sam 3. Download it here and enjoy!
In order to install this level, place the "morningsurvial.gro" file into the "C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/serious sam 3/Content/SeriousSam3" folder. Then, start the game in Steam, and select "moddable version" when a prompt appears. Look through the Single Player menu until a special submenu that doesn't appear in the default game is found. Open it, click on the level, and the level will start!
One of Dealspwn's editors has declared that Serious Sam 3: BFE is his personal choice for GotY! According to the article writer, Serious Sam 3 won an editor's choice award because of how thrilling and fun it is. The levels levels are well-paced, with the player seamlessly switching between events such as tense shootouts with wall-crawling enemies and frantic boss fights. However, the real star is the later levels, which are filled to the brim with thrilling situations caused by the carnage the player inflicts on the game's enemies. In fact, the writer states that one setpiece in a level usually has more thrills and fun than you see in an entire game! Add a crazy sixteen player co-op mode, and an epic game is turned into complete insanity, but in a good way. Congratulations to Croteam and Devolver Digital!
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