Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

This is the game that the industry should hold up as an example of what gaming can aspire to. [Feb 2005, p.56]

A weird combination of a 3D-shooter and a platform adventure. It is beautiful and works extremely well. The best Oddworld game so far. [Feb. 05]

Few games are this fresh or entertaining.

An unmissable title. It's been a very long time since I've enjoyed a videogame so much, and I feel that every gamer owes it to themselves to plough into Stranger's Odd adventure.

Despite a few missing links and annoyances, Stranger still emerges as a beautifully fun beast. [Feb 2005, p.71]

About the only major flaws in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath are the camera adjustment and angles can be down right awful at times.

If you're gonna have odd features, make them essential... A good game, but a slightly wasted opportunity.

One of the only games of it's kind. Amazing story, gameplay mechanics and character progression. Your character 'Stranger' never gets boring.

OH MY GOD!!! HD VERSION!!! YEAH... but original game was... better? I don't know why, but I think that new version is different than old. I'm weird, i understand. This game's my childhood, like Ghost Master or... uhhhm... Whatever. I don't like Munch Oddysee or Abe's Exoddus. Only Stranger's Wrath. :)

a small masterpiece superb job from Oddworld you stranger a mysterious bounty hunter hunting across Oddworld for a mysterious life saving surgery. the plays with the third person first person shooter concept, using various oddworld animals as amino a must play

Marking a change from the previous puzzle based instalments in the Oddworld series Strangers Wrath is best described as First Person Shooter. Fortunately it has more than enough personality, from the interesting lead character to the amusing selection of live ammo, to set it apart from the crowd. Add to this a solid control scheme and, despite the odd minor fault, you are looking at 15-20 hours of great entertainment.

I remember seeing information about this game before it came out that got me excited. I'd played Abe's Odyssey and Munch's Odyssey, and I enjoyed both; They put you in interesting, immersive (though fairly linear) environments where you feel a strange familiarity with foreign creatures, in a sense commenting on our own connection with nature. So when I saw they were making more of a shooter, I was pretty excited; These developers have a sense of grittiness that's relatable, so I was curious to see how that would turn out in an outlaw-type protagonist. Personally I am a fan of platformer / shooter games, like Ratchet and Clank. However, this title unfortunately didn't feel quite like an organically pointed experience like the other Oddworld titles I played, though I never did finish this game. My main issue with it is that it seemed to get a bit repetitive to me, which was strange considering the mechanics weren't exactly stale. I think it was a mix of controls being just short of precise, without much guiding the way in terms of incentive for side questing, leading to a little bit too linear of a progression for me. That said, it is still an Oddworld game so the characters still have their own unique charm. Still recommended for any fans of the series, though I'd recommend starting with a different game if you haven't tried an Oddworld game yet.