Oddworld dev to premier new game

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 14 April, 2011

JAW revives shelved nineties title.

Oddworld developer Just Add Water will premier a new game at this month's GameCityNights event in Nottingham.

CEO Stewart Gilray will unveil Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD and premiere a game Eurogamer has been told is the revival of a shelved title from the nineties.

Gilray will then lead a talk by Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning, who will discuss the much-loved series.

Stranger's Wrath was an Xbox first-person shooter Eurogamer awarded 7/10 in 2005.

JAW's HD remake adds 720p visuals, more character detail, normal mapping, self-shadowing, re-mastered dialogue, Move support and other undisclosed bonus material.

It is the first Oddworld game for PlayStation hardware in over a decade - Munch's Odyssey and Stranger's Wrath were both originally Xbox games.

Lanning, meanwhile, has confirmed plans to create an HD remake of classic platformer Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee.

"It's basically Abe's Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer," Lanning explained earlier this year.

The event takes place at Antenna, Beck Street, NG1 1EQ, from 6-11pm.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • RobotRocker #1 1 year ago

    Stranger's Wrath was an Xbox first-person shooter Eurogamer awarded 7/10 in 2005.

    I hope the person involved in that blunder was mauled by a rabid fuzzle. Strangers Wrath was easily in the top ten games of last gen.

  • Shakey_Jake33 #2 1 year ago

    'Oddworld developer'? The only Oddworld-related title they've done until now is porting Stranger's Wrath to HD consoles/PC.

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #3 1 year ago

    A shelved game from the nineties eh?

    So, it's not one of the cancelled Oddworld games we know about then:
    - Hand of Odd (the RTS strategy thing)
    - Squeek's Oddyssee (was supposed to be the third game in the Oddworld Pentalogy)
    - Citizen Siege (the CGI movie tie-in game)

    Nineties makes me think it's another direct sequel in the Abe's Oddyssey/Exoddus line (1997/98)

    #2: Yes, developer. They've been working on some unannounced thing for years now, along with the ports..
    Edited by Jonathan_Fakenham at 14/04/11 @ 08:54

  • lucky_jim #4 1 year ago

    @RobotRocker

    I was about to say the same thing, but to be charitable for a moment, sometimes it can be difficult to recognise a genuine classic at the time: especially if it does things a bit differently, as Stranger's Wrath did.

    Hopefully everyone will buy the remake to make up for the games commercial failure first time round. It's effing brilliant.

  • MojoDex #5 1 year ago

    stop. follow me.

  • Frankie_Lee #6 1 year ago

    Hey Lorne, make sure you include a remake of Flashback so we can all see where your "inspiration" came from.

  • andywilkie35 #7 1 year ago

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    Can't wait for these. In fact, might have to start playing one on the PSP tonight and make it my commute game from now on.

  • sonicyoda #8 1 year ago

    @MojoDex

    Can't touch this.

  • reelbigkris #9 1 year ago

    @sonicyoda
    My, my, my music hits me so hard
    Makes me say "Oh, my Lord"
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    With a mind to rhyme and two hype feet

    Also: I aprove of strangers wrath... Never played it before and will be an instant buy
    Edited by reelbigkris at 14/04/11 @ 11:15

  • rprince #10 1 year ago

    Ayala.

  • Whitster #11 1 year ago

    Wish I'd waited for this rather than the Steam version which was all kinds of shoddy!

  • One_Vurfed_Gwrx #12 1 year ago

    Whitster: The Steam version is supposed to get a free upgrade to match this one after its PSN release...

  • Mudo #13 1 year ago

    It's not necessarily Hand of Odd. That could be considered more a noughties game, considering it was being developed alongside Munch's Oddysee (which was released in 2001).
    It could be SligStorm, a game planned as a short-ish bonus to Abe's Exoddus where the player would control an albino slig cast out for being different and all that
    (SligStorm is surely more likely; an entirely new massive 3d rts or a small 2d side-scroller as big as a full level in abe's oddysee? you have to consider how small JAW is as a company and the fact they seem to be working on about 700 small oddworld things right now (ports, hd-isations, mini iphone apps...))
    Edited by Mudo at 14/04/11 @ 17:51