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realism is brown

magic, spirit-world, tech-future, etc are all TEAL

Graphically it wouldn't be out of place on the 360, at least played in 1080p in this remaster, but the level design, character movement and especially the menus and GUI exude OG Xbox

I wanted to check this game out as an Oddworld fan at the time but me and my siblings just didn't end up buying too many Xbox games. It kinda got relegated into being the 4-player Halo and Dead or Alive box

That's Unreal 2.5 for ya. Honestly such a classic time, and that bump mapping. Has anyone made a game throwing back to this aesthetic?

Also see Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Doom 3, F.E.A.R, Condemned

Also GUN, that game was both fun to play, but also pretty crappy (and probably problematic I can't remember).

That Call of Juarez game was kinda infamous for not only being shit but horribly racist as well

Tenchu

One title that SHOULD have an actually good new game but doesn't yet.

Picture this:

1. Sekiro combat but with bigger consequences/vulnerability to incentivise the stealth approach.

2. Proper stealth options.

3. Hitman-style open world levels.

4. GADGETS GADGETS GADGETS to make loadouts for levels.

It should have happened already but we're being held out on. FromSoftware even own the rights and they're holding out on us.

I had to look up Return from Darkness and it turns out that's just what Wrath of Heaven ended up being called on the Xbox

We had Wrath of Heaven on the PS2 and played the shit out of the unlockable versus mode (remember random unlockable versus modes???)

I see your Metal Arms and raise you Brute Force

HD version on PC probably pirateable would be easier than emulating the xbox versuon.

This is what the xemu compatibility list says:

https://xemu.app/titles/4541006d/#Oddworld-Stranger-s-Wrath

I've just started playing it but from what I understand it's a completely standalone game completely unconnected to Abe's story. I don't think this even has any of the species from the other games

every voice is either pitched up super high or (sometimes) pitched up super low. characters will say a million lines at you all at once because you stepped too close

There's also only one voice actor per species, so all the chicken people in the starting town, for example, speak with the same goofy high-pitched Cletus voice regardless of their gender. I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were also just Lorne Lanning because they all sound very familiar from Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus

that terrible game made by the pickle rick guy aped off of the core conceit of this game, which is that ammo is all live creatures you collect. they growl and stuff when you load them into the crossbow. probably sounds weird and cruel but trust me its a good time + not unsettling at all

I assume the whole live ammo thing was just Oddworld Inhabitants trying to do something offbeat and creative within the confines of an FPS. Without looking into the game's history, I'm assuming the whole reason it's an FPS in the first place was because no one liked Munch's Oddysee so they tried to make something more in keeping with the general Xbox brand, ie. shooty game with badass protagonist, while still staying true to the Oddworld ethos. Sadly I think this game bombed pretty hard too. I feel pretty bad for Oddworld Inhabitants in general, I think they've just been stepping on rake after rake ever since 1998 with their one success being New n Tasty

Speaking of Munch's Oddysee, I guess I should play that at some point, but from the moment I first saw screenshots of it in a gaming magazine circa 2001 I just thought it looked like complete ass and had none of the charm of the PS1 Abe games