That right there? That's Sir Buttersworth. His hobbies include savoring life's most delicate fineries and single-handedly justifying the existence of Serious Sam 3's Steam Workshop support. Oh, and loping ever onward - to almost completely certain death - in dim hope of truly understanding that most top-hat-less of Others, Serious Sam. Can't forget that. But he is not alone, neither in that indirectly suicidal pursuit nor his presence on Steam Workshop. Sam's only just arrived on Valve's mod-friendly service, but his page is already impressively populated.
]]>I know I played Serious Sam 3 at some point in the last three decades, but I'd be lying if I said I knew it was this year, or last year, or the year before... So many games, arriving so fast, sending me into a giddy tailspin of memories that all blend into each other, creating a miasma of settings, weapons, stories and muscle-memory control sets. The Unigame: that is where I live now.
Uh. Yes. Serious Sam 3. It has an add-on, it is called Jewel of the Nile, it is out tomorrow and it has a launch trailer.
]]>Hello there, Sam. Long time, no DLC. One of the nice things about putting words in your mouth and then regurgitating them for all the world to hear is that you can't verbally eviscerate me for that awful pun. Oh Sam, you're the greatest. So anyway, you say you've finally got some new content on the way for Serious Sam 3: BFE, huh? And it's a campaign-extending to-do called "Jewel of the Nile"? And you think I have really awesome hair? Oh, do go on.
]]>Some companies' DRM is stupidly cruel, punishing only those who have legitimately purchased the game, and not those who pirate it. Well, most companies' DRM is that. Serious Sam 3's DRM is brilliantly cruel, punishing only those who pirated it. By relentlessly pursuing them with a giant invincible armoured scorpion. As revealed by Dark Side Of Gaming, only those who unlawfully duplicate the game encounter this immortal enemy, who haunts them from the opening moments. You can see it in action below.
]]>You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I'm telling you why
]]>The only honest first-person shooter is back. Is Sam Stone a one-trick pony? Well, yes. That's the point, stupid. I've been blasting my way through the singleplayer campaign of Croteam's latest, and I'm ready to tell you what I made of it. Though, If I was allowed, I would make each and every one of the following 1000-odd words 'blam.'
The game doesn't start until you get the assault rifle.
The game doesn't start until you get the double-barrelled shotgun.
The game doesn't start until you get the rocket launcher.
The game doesn't start until you get the Devastator.
No, no, no the game doesn't start until you get the minigun. Budda-budda-budda-budda-budda-budda-budda-wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
]]>The third Serious Sam game is released on Steam at 6pm today. TODAY! That's so soon it's almost right now. I guess we are working on a review of it. Are we? I am imagining that the other members of RPS are sort of shrugging non-committally in response to this question, but actually I have no idea, because I am sat in an annex of my kitchen typing this gibberish into the internet, and they are off being heroes in various corners of post-industrial England. Perhaps they actually are shrugging, but have no idea why, such is their psychic connection to the PC gaming blog... So spooky. Anyway, there's a launch trailer below, and a hands-on from John over here. Read, watch, think, judge, decide.
]]>New up-and-coming games writing wannabe Craig Pearson is with us this week. Say hello to the young Scottish chancer!
Croteam's Serious Sam 3: BFE, which I hope stands for 'Best Friends forEver', has an exciting new trailer out where the guns are relegated to second place. In place of well-oiled gun barrels and polished, throbbing rockets it's the grim melee assaults that strut confidently around in their chaps. It's like the Queensbury Rules: 2nd edition, where "That no shoes or boots with spikes or sprigs be allowed", has been replaced with "If your heart is ripped out and squeezed into a paste, you have till the count of ten to get back on your feet."
The uncouth violence is below.
]]>Betrayal! Oh, the wound! Why, why, why? The eve of shamelessly excessive manshooting with a retro flavour but a hypermodern look was almost upon us, and then they only go and move the release date of Serious Sam 3: BFE back by a month. You're not going to be playing this on October 18 after all. I BET THEY DON'T EVEN LOVE US AT ALL. I bet they don't even like us. Wonder what crappy reason they're going to fob us off with? So they can add more DRM? Because some suit at Microsoft told them to? Because they're in a dark alliance with an evil retail chain? Or just because they're cold, mean-hearted bastards?
]]>These Rich Knuckles / Serious Sam 3 helpline videos aren't ever going to stop, are they? As long as that man has breath in his body, he will just keep on uttering catchphrases, puns, mum gags and snarky digs at the competition. And reassuring people that 16-player co-op does not count as an orgy.
(I heard a rumour they filmed 13 thousand of these videos back to back. 3,124 cameraman died in the process. Knuckles ate their festering corpses in order to keep going himself, though he left all the fingers. He doesn't like fingers. That's just what I heard, anyway.)
]]>Part 2 of Croteam/Devolver Digital's crazed Serious Sam 3: BFE Helpline videos is here! And we're going to post it even though we posted the last one like five minutes ago or something! Because it's very funny! And it contains the much-speculated-upon answer to how one man can carry so many cannonballs! Have a good evening!
]]>How many trailers manage to accurately convey a design philosophy while also being pretty damn funny? I’ve done some swift calculations on my abaci and mathomancy tells me that the correct answer is this one for Serious Sam 3: BFE. Despite pouring scorn on so many modern gaming conventions, the whole thing is so gleeful that it doesn’t seem spiteful, just completely and incurably insane.
]]>Croteam have revealed the release date for Serious Sam 3: BFE. It shall be with us on the 18th October, and you can pre-order it now soon on Steam, GetGames, and so on. Should you? Well, take a look at the new in-game trailer below to get an idea.
I can still hear the screaming headless kamikaze. That's not a twee little aphorism. Despite the fact that I'm no longer playing the game, I can still hear the incessant roaring scream of the droves and droves of bomb-wielding suicidal maniacs charging toward me, somewhere inside my brain. I hope it goes away soon, because this would be no way to live.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun is the first place in the world to have been given a few levels of Serious Sam 3: BFE to play with, and I've now killed and been killed within them an awful lot. Let me tell you all about it.
]]>The fans, they demanded of Croteam that Serious Sam 3: BFE feature four-player splitscreen play. And so it came to pass. RPS can exclusively reveal that the forthcoming ultro-shooter will allow you to gather around a PC monitor with your chums and FIGHT. Up to three gamepads can be used alongside one mouse and keyboard to have four-player multiplayer and co-op. You can see full-size screens below.
]]>Some astonishing controversy from Friday that escaped our gaze - Devolver Digital, they publishing Serious Sam 3: BFE, have announced that they've scrapped their planned proprietary digital distribution service, Krundle, and instead are opting to use Steam. And not Origin. The press release, containing their reasoning and what could have been (including features such as "Free-to-Play-for-Fifty-Bucks games wherein the consumer is free to play the game once it is purchased for $50", and velvet-covered jet skis), is below.
]]>As you already know so well, the forthcoming release of Serious Sam 3: BFE is being accompanied by some specially commissioned indie games based on the Sam license. Already out is the demo for Kamikaze Attack, and coming soon is Serious Sam Double D. We have ourselves an almost-finished copy of that game, so I'm going to describe the first couple of stages to you in things called words and pictures.
]]>A rather silly email appears alerting us to the shock news that Croteam's Lead In-Game Wall Graffiti Artist, Davor Kovač, has quit the company midway through the development of Serious Sam 3: BFE, "to pursue his dream of being quoted in a rushed press release". So now the team are asking players to come up with the nonsense that will appear on the game's walls.
]]>Here's something you're seeing here first. A new trailer for Serious Sam 3 BFE, following the life of one of the game's many headless kamikazes. Because that's the correct way to trail an old-school shooter - a documentary about a headless man with bombs for hands. We're all agreed on that. So head below to take a world exclusive peek at the new video.
]]>One of the most refreshing moments of this year’s E3 was a trip out of the noisy, smelly Convention Center to a nearby hotel, to sit down and play Serious Sam 3. Refreshing to be away from the noise, but also to just be sat playing a game (on PC, no less) that’s so focused on being a game.
]]>A Serious Sam game without its screaming headless bombermen, the Kamikazes, would not be a Serious Sam game. Hence, it has now been indisputably proven that the upcoming Serious Sam 3: BFE is definitely a Serious Sam game. The bellowing explodey-blokes are back, but they're... different.
]]>A great thinker, when first confronted with the teenage delirium of Doom, made one of the most astute, piercing and brilliant observations ever to be applied to a videogame. Yes, this is pretty good.... but imagine if you could talk to the monsters. Now that would be something. And it would. It would be a glorious thing, a dream only yet partially achieved, that hundreds chase. But I come not to talk of the future - I come to talk of a present. A present where hundreds chase you.
]]>(As revealed by Kieron's, Jim's and my recent run-through of the entire thing in online co-op).
This!
]]>RPS chums Eurogamer have launched their own digital download service, Get Games, with just one game: Serious Sam HD. It also looks like it's going to be far and away the cheapest place to get Serious Sam HD (which I've just downloaded and should get to writing about later in the week), with the game at just £9.99. Go take a look.
]]>Oho, we've not said too much about the rejiggery of Serious Sam, have we? I fear it got a little lost amidst all the wartorn modernity, ages of dragons, deadly leavings and lands of borders of recent weeks, alas. But it's here now. As in, right now, as of today. Steam is its only current home, where it's busy pulling the crab most muscular in the hope of earning $20/£18 (damn you, exchange rate) of your esteemed funds. I'm in two minds about Sam HD. On the one hand - been there, done that. On the other, well, you know. Serious Friggin' Sam. Don't make 'em like that anymore, and all that. Sniff. Below, a glut of agreeably insane promotional videos that we really should have put up earlier. They won't improve your understanding of the game one bit, but they will brighten/strangen/unsettle your day. Bless you, Crotream, you mad fools.
]]>G4 and their exclusives, eh? They've just gone and put up a new comedy commercial for the forthcoming Serious Sam HD. Much like the majority of my pun titles, it's a bit Trying Too Hard, but it's highly likeable. It also reminds me of the first Old Man Murray interview around the dawn of Serious Sam, especially the bit where they really don't know what a crate is. I'm also reminded the time we howled down the phone until all of Edge came all around the future building to see the glorious final battle against Notorious mental. I'm also reminded of the time I actually tried to hand in my notice over some publisher backstabbing to do with Serious Sam. Ah, the memories.
I'm actually really looking forward to this. Serious Sam was a profoundly splendid first-person shooter, and nothing has been nearly as dumb and brilliant since.
]]>So, according to Eurogamer, Serious Sam HD, which is a blow-for-blow remake of the original sillier-than-thou shooter from Croteam in the Serious Sam 3 engine, will be coming to PC. Of course we've yet to see anything much of Serious Sam 3 itself, which Croteam reconfirmed they were working on a few weeks ago. One minor development is that new publisher on the block, Devolve Digital, which has been set up by the chaps behind defunct publishing outfits Gathering of Developers and GameCock, is somehow involved in the new Sam games. We'll be hearing more about that very soon, I suspect.
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