Serious Sam announced

Gathering of Developers' On Deck Interactive to Publish Serious Sam Game Arcade-Action Shooter to Release in 2001 Dallas, TX, July 31, 2000 -- Developer-driven computer and video game publisher Gathering of Developers' On Deck Interactive (ODI) publishing label today announced it will publish Serious Sam from Croatian game development team Croteam. Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline, arcade-action single-player shooter for the PC. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction, and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psycho-powers, the game's main character Serious Sam travels through the beautiful world of ancient Egypt and several diverse planets, in a battle against countless minions. Serious Sam will be released in early 2001 for the PC and distributed by Take-Two Interactive's Jack of All Games. "We are very excited to be able to work with Croteam and bring Serious Sam into the ODI lineup. Croteam is exactly the type of up-and-coming developer we are looking for. They are a solid team with a lot of potential." said ODI CEO Robert Westmoreland. "The public demo generated a great reaction from the press and gamers. And with Gathering behind it, there is no doubt that Serious Sam will hit the retail market in a serious way." "Given Gathering's strong financial and marketing support and its management by leading game developers, we are delighted to be working with its new publishing label ODI," said Roman Ribaric, CEO of Croteam. "Our decision was obvious given ODI's commitment to smaller developers, which translates into more development time and less red tape. ODI saw our game and made us an excellent, timely offer." The Story: In the near future, during the first interstellar travels, humans encounter a great evil that has been roaming the galaxy for past few eons. The evil being is an incarnation of the last of the ancient immortals named Tah-Um (Notorious Mental). Mental has set forth to wipeout the earthlings for sheer fun, just as it did with all the other civilizations in galactic history. This time, humans have a secret weapon left to them by an extinct civilization from Sirius - Timelock. Timelock will enable special forces veteran Sam 'Serious' Stone to return to the time of ancient Egypt and assassinate Mental.