For those who grew up during the times where Quake ruled the FPS gaming world, then chances are they would have heard of Serious Sam. The title might sound mighty serious, but it actually is one fun ride for folks who love nothing better than to blow up tons of monsters in a frenzied one-man show. Well, such shooting mayhem is brought forward to this day and age as Majesco Entertainment has announced the arrival of Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD on the Xbox LIVE Arcade. Developed by the creators of the original Serious Sam title for the PC, Croteam, it was produced in partnership with Devolver Digital, and you can expect this title to be re-tooled and re-vamped in glorious High Definition with an all-new version of the CroTech engine.

Serious Sam HD is not your mother’s generic, large-scale, orchestral scored, Space Marine-themed epic FPS with dialog that pretends it’s an RPG…instead, Serious Sam HD is a grab you by the jibblies run and gun, twitch FPS: BIG guns, TONS of enemies, 4-Player Online Co-Op and stunningly superfluous HD graphics that rival retail boxed games. You’ve waited forever but Serious Sam is back from the nether with its award-winning game play that will remind you why you play FPSs in the first place. The game is being produced by Devolver Digital, a brand new production and publishing company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in delivering top quality entertainment to gamers worldwide at affordable prices by any and all means available.

According to Roman Ribaric, CEO of Croteam, “We are really excited to update our hero and recreate Sam in stunning high definition for Xbox LIVE Arcade players. The fans have lobbied us hard to do this, so we are stoked about bringing Sam back as big, bold and bad as he ever was.”

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