![]() ![]() Having to hunt your ammunition before going after the outlaws might seem tedious, but it can be fun and you have the chance to discover new kinds of ammunition. Gameplay wise, Oddworld: Stranger?s Wrath takes a basic platform formula and mixes in enough twists to keep the gameplay from getting too repetitive. Have you ever needed to hunt and capture ammunition you need to take on outlaws? You will now. ![]() You need to stun and capture these creatures in order to arm yourself. Besides being alive and noise making, your gathering method is bizarre as well. Your ammunition consists of things like Chippunks (chipmunks used to distract and attract outlaws to their locations and tend to insult Stranger if they stay in the crossbow for too long), Fuzzles (think of the movie Critters?small furry creatures that like to bite and growl at you all the time) and Stingbees (use them like machinegun ammo?that buzz while they wait to be fired). Do you remember it? Alright, it really doesn?t matter because the stuff going on in Oddworld: Stranger?s Wrath is way weirder. Think back to the scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit when Eddie pulls out the cartoon gun that shoots the talking bullets that look like cowboys and Native Americans (or Indians for you non-PC folk). It?s a given that things are a bit different in Oddworld, but living ammunition is the strangest yet. On the flip side, sometimes you need to take the lesser bounty and kill them in order to progress in the game. But be careful when attacking outlaws because you get more money for bringing in live outlaws as opposed to dead ones. In addition to the charge attack, the Stranger performs a spin attack, he pounces, he has an arm mounted crossbow with live ammunition, and a bounty vacuum that sucks up and stores outlaws for delivery to the bounty store where you get your money. This is perfect for evading attacks and charging at outlaws with knock-out force. A cross between a human and a tiger (or a big cat of some sort), the Stranger has the ability to run at extreme speeds when running on all fours. Also, he is like no other creature in Oddworld. Other than the fact that he is known as the Stranger, very little is known about him other than he is a hardcore bounty hunter and he needs to earn $20,000 for some mysterious medical procedure. You?d probably work with the outlaws if the bounty wasn?t being offered. This Stranger is a bounty hunter and he is only concerned in bagging outlaws in order to make money. Forget the idea of Stranger stopping the outlaws for the sake of restoring justice to this small town. No one else will know about it, so go nuts. If you want you can start calling your character something else, please do. A tall stranger does walk into the town, and that is where Oddworld: Stranger?s Wrath begins. This would be the part of the story where a tall stranger walks into the town in the name of justice and cleans up the outlaw element, but this is Oddworld. Outlaws have surrounded the town and are robbing the wagon trails, taking over prime mining property and have made life increasingly difficult for law-abiding citizens. So here we have a small, old west town with the usual old west town problems. While it?s like nothing we?ve seen before, it seems like we should have expected something this bizarre in Oddworld. Most of the locals consist of chicken people and other strange human and animal cross breeds. The setting for Oddworld: Stranger?s Wrath is the old west (unknown is what time in Oddworld history all this is happening), Oddworld style. Electronic Arts rendering of Oddworld is a bit different than what players are used to. Small, toad-like creatures that run around in cities that are a cross between Tatooine (from the Star Wars series) and a landfill is a typical scene in an Oddworld neighborhood. When one thinks of Oddworld games, they probably think the same thing I do. ![]()
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