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Shawn on Saturday, June 27th, 2009 at 5:46 PM PST
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Serious Sam is one of the most insane FPS games I think I’ve ever played, second only to the highly underrated Painkiller, but when news broke a few days ago that the developers of the title – Croteam – were bringing an updated version of the initial Serious Sam title to the Xbox 360 I was cautiously optimistic.
Seriously!, a Serious Sam fansite recently had a chance to discuss the upcoming remake and the possibilities of a third game full game for the series with Croteam’s CTO Alen Ladavac.
Here are some of the highlights:
Q: Will we see the return of many of the features from Serious Sam 1 that were absent in Serious Sam 2 like Mental mode, custom gravity and saturation/colour bias sliders?
A: Mostly yes, plus, SSHD holds some more improvements that are in line with where SSFE was, and SS3 adds some more specific stuff to gameplay and options. But custom gravities, unfortunately, not yet.
Q: Will there be an achievements/unlock/rewards system for superior gaming skills?
A: Yes, there already is in SSHD.
Q: Will the sound engine have more extensive support for integrated sound cards and soundchips? Will the engine include support for OpenAL implementation as an alternative to Creative EAX?
A: SE3 supports DirectSound W&W/O EAX, OpenAL, and XAudio2. But XAudio2 rocks so much, you won’t want to use anything else. That will be the default, and there probably won’t be a menu option to use the other two at all (only through the console). XAudio2 works perfectly, no matter which chip you have. We were never able to get this much reliablity in reproducing the same sound effects with other APIs before, ever since our old software mixer (which has not been used for quite some time). Effectively, XAudio2 _is_ a software mixer, and that is why it works so well.
Check out the discussion thread on our forums over on the site to see the rest.
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Shawn on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 5:38 PM PST
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Its been a few weeks since we had an Open File installment but things are still happening on the many Filefront affiliated websites so without further delay we jump into this weeks edition. The files listed in this feature are selected by the Filefront Hosted Site admins and each week we highlight the most exciting add ons, maps or mods for some of the hottest games in the PC gaming universe. Before linking to the various files and maps for your favorite games its time for a little news.

First, we have a change coming to one of the file sites – namely FarCryFiles. With the announcement and upcoming release of Far Cry 2, the site is taking its first steps to adopt a new name – FarCryFiles will soon become FarCry2Files. This change will combine the current content for Far Cry with the files aimed at its upcoming sequel.

Second, for those who missed it, Stargateworlds.filefront.com has news about the upcoming Stargate MMO on their news page including the release data announcement. Anyone interested in this in-development game should follow the link to find out how SG-1 and the universe of Stargate will become a Massively Multiplayer Game.
Now On to the Files for this week where we feature:
A new Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne multiplayer map.
A Call of Duty: United Offensive map conversion for the popular RTS Company of Heroes
An objective based map for Far Cry where it’s you versus some Mercs
The Doom III Nightmare Mod
Links and descriptions follow after the break.
(I did not write these descriptions BTW so the typos are maintained from the original submissions but I have made some edits to make them more readable.)
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Ron on Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 6:40 PM PST
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Well, if you’re a fan of the Serious Sam series, I have even more good news for you. You’ll remember we told you that Serious Sam 3 was rumored to be in the works. Now, the Croatian magazine, Gameplay, has some screenshots that will knock your socks off. Luckily, fansite Seriously! has gotten permission to post the screens for everyone to see.
Not all of the images are from the Serious Sam title. Some are even just to show off the engine. I think you’ll agree that whatever they’re for, they rock. You can check them out here.
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Ron on Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 4:50 PM PST
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It’s being reported that Croteam, the Croatian developer of the Serious Sam series, has said it is working on Serious Sam 3. The rumor is that Croteam revealed the information in an interview with Croatian magazine GamePlay. The gameplay will be the same style as the Serious Sam games of the past, built on a new version of the Serious engine. According to the article, the game is a “military tactical-action shooter” that takes place in the present day. As yet, no info on what platforms the game will launch on have been announced, but you can expect it to be on PC at the very least.
More info on this as it becomes available.
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