Serious Sam is being turned into a run-based roguelite multiplayer shooter later this year, and seriously—this one might not suck

Devolver Digital lifted the lid on a new Serious Sam game during today's Xbox showcase, and it's a little bit different from the ones that have come before. Serious Sam: Shatterverse is a run-based multiplayer FPS for up to five players, each of them a Sam from a different dimension, who travel through a multiverse torn to pieces by the villainous Mental and try to put things right.

Serious Sam games have a fairly distinct style: Huge, open battlefields, massive waves of enemies, and a large...