[i][b] It's time to play some Tennis, Serious Sam style! [/b][/i]
[b]The 7Smoke Tennis project[/b] was the first collaboration project of this kind in the Serious Sam community where several mappers come together to create a unique Serious Sam experience. Each map has been made by a different mapper, picking up where the last map left off (passing it to each other just like a tennis ball!), thus creating great variety in map style and level pacing.
There are a total of 6 Tennis Projects, all of them organized by none other than Noam 2000!
The first 3 tennis projects were on a smaller scale, with [b]Tennis 1 [/b]and 2 had six participants and [b]Tennis 3[/b] having four, with all rounds released in a span of 2 months between each other.
[b]Tennis 4[/b] in 2016 is where things started expanding, with 14 mappers working on the project. The campaign now had a whole thoughtfully fleshed-out story, and more quality control was being done on the levels. The story takes place in an alternate timeline where Earth is destroyed by one of Mental's elite commanders: "Solgar", as Serious Sam chases him across the galaxy to exact his revenge. It was the first tennis project to feature a cast of voice actors, with one of them being John J Dick himself, playing the role of Serious Sam!
After one year break from Tennis, in the Summer of 2017, Noam opened the registrations for the [b]7Smoke Tennis Project 2018![/b] Due to 20 participants applying for it, Noam took the decision to split the project into 2 separate campaigns: the [b]7Smoke Tennis Project Blue and Project Red[/b], with each one of them having 10 modders.
The [b]Tennis Blue[/b] campaign is more heavily focused on the battles and the custom range of heavy artillery with which the player can blast through the forty different enemy types including bosses!
Traverse through desolated fortresses, frozen caverns, and advanced technological strongholds - to name a few. As you travel through these domains, searching for its hidden secrets, its inhabitants will come into play - a fully voice-acted cast of characters serve to weave a story about a forsaken realm burnt by a devious tyrant and his warriors, and the player character's journey to carry the legacy of those who have met with an unfortunate fate. And to make things even spicier, in this mod, your choices matter and lead to different endings.
While not a prequel or sequel to its Blue sibling, Tennis Red has a larger focus on the story and an overarching narrative. The year is 2165, and thanks to ancient intervention, the reach, power, and influence of the human race across the galaxy have become much greater than anyone could have imagined.
[b]Red [/b]edition’s story takes place in three distinct locations in three different chapters:
- Parsart, a purple-clad planet unable to support human life, but is full of fantastical creatures.
- Zalgun, once overflooded with rainforests but is now a barren desert with the occasional abandoned stronghold.
- Finally, the campaign climaxes at the ever-so-familiar Earth. There’s plenty of exploration to be had in these locations – but more importantly, a lot of frantic action as well.
