Serious Sam & GTA

[ruffneck]

Yeah Guys, i just found out that the developers behind pc first person shooter Serius Sam, Croteam, created 1993-1995 Football Glory, 5-A-Side Soccer and Save The Earth for Miggy.
I've heard that years ago GrandTheftAuto was planned to release on Amiga initially, is it just a rumour?

[odin]

I think one of the first games of these Croatian guys is Embryo. A 3D flying shooter type of thing.

As for GTA..no idea.

[carls]

Serious Sam seems to be a fun game and it shouldn't be too hardware-demanding to run on an AmigaOne or Pegasos. Who needs GTA when  we've got Payback? :-)

[WarPiper]

@ carls

Who needs GTA when we've got Payback?

it seems so obvious you have not played the latest versions of GTA, play a game of GTA 3 or GTA Vice City for that matter and you wuld not ask that question.

Payback does not compare anymore.

[legion]

A GTA Vice City port, and a Counter-strike port are all I'd need.   :-D

[WarPiper]

for the Amiga, I would not hold my breath, but would be nice.

[XDelusion]

We could use all the 3D Engines with Dev tools we can get!!!!!!!

[Herewegoagain]

ruffneck wrote:
Yeah Guys, i just found out that the developers behind pc first person shooter Serius Sam, Croteam, created 1993-1995 Football Glory, 5-A-Side Soccer and Save The Earth for Miggy.
I've heard that years ago GrandTheftAuto was planned to release on Amiga initially, is it just a rumour?

Yes, it is very true that Croteam started out on Amiga.  The Serious Sam Engine is capable of being ported, as they do license it out.  There are various versions of SS now, including for the XBox and it is apparently getting ported to the GameCube by another company (and that one should port well to Amiga OS4, since it will then be in PPC format)

Serious Sam : First Encounter was a great game.  So was the SS : Second Encounter, but the first is always better for some reason.   Both are great fun to play multiplayer co-op online or via LAN.

And yes, GTA3 is very different, and advanced from the original.

[Warface]

I have Serious Sam for my Palm, which is somewhat crippled, but runs on a cheap 68K. So even a 68K port is possible... :-)

[amigamad]

Id love gta or mafia. ;-)

[olegil]

Payback is a good starting point, but it's not GTA3, no.

Would to be fun seeing it in 1024x768 and upwards some day, though (I've only seen the Amiga version, and only on an 040@40...)

[Guyver]

Warface wrote:
I have Serious Sam for my Palm, which is somewhat crippled, but runs on a cheap 68K. So even a 68K port is possible... :-)

How the hell do you di that......and what are the spec off your Palm...Is it a special version of Serious Sam???

oohh and by the way, it would be very cool to see GTA on the Amiga :-D

[Herewegoagain]

How the hell do you di that......and what are the spec off your Palm...Is it a special version of Serious Sam???

Yes, it is a special version for Palm.  I started to mention that one as well.  I've seen it in Best Buy before.  If you look at the screen shots, it's pretty ugly, (See screen shots here) compared to the original, but not bad concidering it's on a PDA.

[Calen]

think one of the first games of these Croatian guys is Embryo

Yeah, fine game there that run quite well on a stock A1200 IIRC, Almost as good as Epic by the diddy men (Ocean) :-)

[dezignersrepublic]

It's true, the original gta was created for the Amiga but the exodus of companies leaving the amiga scene and the release of the playstation meant that that neve happened.....