Nintendo has revealed that Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is headed to the Switch, listing it as one of the many playable titles at this year's EGX event in the UK.
This marks the first time that the game will be playable on a Nintendo platform; the game originally released on Xbox in 2005 before seeing updated versions hit other consoles, too. A Wii U port of Stranger's Wrath was actually planned at one stage, although this project was put on hold in 2015.
The game follows the adventures of Stranger, a fearsome bounty hunter who must track down outlaws to collect bounties. The ultimate aim is to earn enough 'moolah' to pay for a life-saving operation, with both third and first-person perspectives being used for different styles of gameplay. The third-person sections are used for travelling long distances, jumping over platforms and melee-style combat, whereas the first-person areas feature ranged weapons.
Oddworld's creator Lorne Lanning had previously stated that he had "no faith" in the Switch, believing that it would follow the Wii U's early demise. It would seem that this view has turned around since, however, as the console is now clearly seen as a platform that would aid the game in terms of fresh sales. No release date has been given for this new release as of yet, but we'd imagine it can't be too far away considering that fans will be able to go hands-on with it next week.
If you want to find out a little more about the game, make sure to check out the trailer below. This was originally launched back in 2011 to support the PlayStation 3 HD rerelease.
Are you an Oddworld fan? Are you happy to see this arrive on Switch? Tell us below.
[source nintendo.co.uk]
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Day one.
That is all.
Probably another Direct announcement.
Played the two games on the PS1 so am interested in this.
Aw yeah. Always wanted to play this but never managed to get it. Definitely getting it on Switch.
This is a phenomenal game; well the first 2 thirds of the game are. On the original Xbox it was certainly a contender for best graphics on the system. The only game on any system that generation that I played that looked better was Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube.
The story is brilliant with one of the best story twists in gaming history. Hopefully the other Oddworld games do too. Day 1 for me also.
Wow, been years since I even thought of this title. Remember liking it very much back in the day. They should do an oddworld collection
Probably a Direct reveal. But meh. This game has been super cheap everywhere else by now
Hope it sells well or Lorne Lanning will be out moaning about how someone else didn’t do enough for his game. What a moaner
If it's published by EA, im not interested.
EA refuses to support the Switch with meaningful games, pander to the SJW agenda and poisons the console gaming industry with loot boxes in paid for full games.
They are a cancer on video games.
Edit: i do admit though that 80% of my hate for them stems from lack of Nintendo support.
Interesting, but it'll all depend on the price, as I already played it on another platform previously. But I'm not getting my hopes up regarding price. The trend so far seems to be "pricier on the Switch than anywhere else" for most titles. Not all, but most.
give us abes odyssey too!!
I had never played an Oddworld game until the one on Wii U. I really liked that game, but is this one just a FPS? In that case, I'll probably pass on it.
Still have it on my VITA memory card just like Bastion.
Pass.
If they release Abe's Oddessy, I would buy that straight away.
More fool Lorne Lanning for saying Switch would go the same way as the Wii U
Might pick this up, the gameplay looks like something I'd enjoy. But, a game from 2095 even with updated visuals will need to be priced right.
So .....what happened? Did they beg Nintendo to release the game on Switch?
What about that thing they said, that Nintendo Killed Iwata?
Did they apologize?
Not interested. Lorne Lanning will suddenly backtrack his whining about Nintendo until it comes out and then whine even more.
Got the ps3 demo but then a problem happened to my account and then worse... forgot all my info except for email and birth... SO BAD.
Day 1 for me on switch.
Got it on the Vita, so pass for me. Great game and great addition though!
@geox30 Ur profile pic...
@ActiSwitch
What about it?
But how is it possible? Lone Lanning (something like this) said he is seeing the same wii and wii u success with no 3rd party... LOL... OH and he said that Nintendo killed Iwata... SO DUMB.
pass
To everyone who "won't buy the game because of the dev's attitude" to poor precious fans:
Don't.
Topic closed.
@Razer EA has many problems, the presence of LGBT characters in their games is not one of them.
This would absolutely be a buy from me, I have always wanted to play this game but never owned an original Xbox so I haven't had the chance. This game is so unique and deserves to be enjoyed by a modern audience.
@Indielink No but a historically inaccurate character on a FPS gaming thats built up a reputation amongst its supporters for being historically accurate, just for the sake of pandering to the SJW nuts, certainly is one of EA's flaws.
Fairly certain some bio engineered woman who can out run tanks was never mentioned in my history classes.
@Razer And here i thought battlefield build up its reputation by being an actual good game. But since this inclusion historical accuracy is apparently all battlefield ever was about.
@Razer How is it historically inaccurate? The SOE (Special Operations Executive) had a large number of female agents, its best ranking sniper was a women, and they deployed behind enemy lines in a number of theatres of WW2.
That British films from the 1950's (Carve Her Name with Pride, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carve_Her_Name_with_Pride, a great film worth watching) could depict the real world heroism of female combatants, without controversy, makes it a little depressing to see the reaction at the simple depiction of these women today.
@Ensemen Well certain groups of gamers want good games to also be historically accurate.
https://comicsverse.com/historically-accurate-battlefield-1/
Go down to the section where it explains why historical accuracy matters, especially when we already have enough over the top crap like COD or Halo.
To have what little realistic FPS sims we do get to be tainted by SJW crap is jarring, as if that stank hasn't already invaded every other aspect of our lives enough as it is.
Support what you want but i am not the only one who.thinks this way, a simple search on battlefield 5 boycott will tell you this.
@ConanLives yes some cases have been found but a bio engineered woman who can outrun tanks never happened.
Except in the new Battlefield 5 trailer.
If this was Halo nobody would give a crap.
Edit: if the woman was not super human, and actually kept to reality, nobody would care.
Not like Tomb raider gets crap for featuring women. It's this unrealistic crap for the sake of portraying women as super human in a game thats never had that just because SJW dicates it.
@Razer Not 'some cases' but at least a 5th of SOE in field operatives were women. Tanks aren't that fast, but I don't think its the individual gameplay mechanics, but the depiction of the women that's the issue here.
None of the people complaining about Battlefield 5 complained that Battlefield 1 wasn't Arma, or that half the soldiers depicted in the field didn't have dysentery, or that a single bullet wound wouldn't kill off the character in an instant. Because you know its still a game.
This is about people not wanting female avatars in games because of their politics, it has nothing to do with the politics of the devs, or accuracy, but is about the misogynist politics of those who don't want women involved in the industry and have created a banner around that.
@ConanLives you are completely ignorant to the fact that regardless of how many 1000s of cases of females there were in wars...
NO FEMALE WAS EVER A SUPER HUMAN BIO ENGINEERED PERSON WHO CAN OUTRUN TANKS.
read all my post please, i even said nobody would care if her physical attributes were realistic...
You are totally ignoring the fact that they added a woman in here then gave her super powers and then trying to hide behind some 1% of females that served in wars.
@ConanLives these games have built up a reputation on historically accuracy. No woman ever had a bio mechanical robotic arm and could outrun tanks...
It didn't happen in ww2
Unless if in WW2 50% of the soldiers were male and 50% were female, BFV isn’t historically accurate.
@Mrtoad this too... When you have like 80+million men and a couple of thousand cases of women... That is basically a handful but some people are content with history in a historically accurate game being rewritten as long as select group of militant women who don't even play these types of games don't get offended.
To be honest i don't actually care too much about that though... I know what my history is, its when they try to turn the game into halo because SJW that jars me to no end.
@Razer You know i never said that it can't be good for a game to be historically accurate. I'm just saying if they had made this person a man instead but kept the cyborg stuff the outrage would be far far smaller.
I just think a lot of these people complaining use the "historically accurate" excuse to just not want a woman in their favourite game. Of course there are people that find historical accuracy important but i think not that many.
And concerning your "SJW crap has infested all of our lives" maybe ask yourself WHY that's a problem to you. I mean i used to be like you and really take offense just seeing a gay couple featured in a piece of media. But with time i learnt that there really is no problem with that. There are people different than me and giving them their time to shine is not making my live any worse.
And i'm not saying there are no problems with far left ideologies (of course they are) but a lot of people will call the smallest change in their media "forcing SJW agenda down our throats".
Just try to have a more differentiated view on these topics and maybe give one of those "SJW"s a shot and actually listen to him.
An absolutely classic, played it recently on Android TV (not a smooth experience) for sure this will be a lovely game experience. Switch seems he natural home for this game (gyro aiming enabled?)
@Ensemen well no because the backlash would have been small had she not been super human. I mean if they had made her a normal human with normal powers representing the 1% of real female war heroes then yeah.
You could say any backlash to that would be wrong. Anyone who'd disagree with such premise would be a small minded bigot
i for one would be just as mad if they turned the game into halo with a man or a woman... Makes no difference.
But the reason why she has those super powers is exactly because of the SJW crap around it...
"We cant show women as weak, in fact lets make them super human instead"...
The only reason these changes were added was to pander to the SJW brigade...
I'm a huge fan of Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus (PSX).
I really wish they had released a remastered version of the above aforementioned titles.
I love Oddworld and Lorne Lanning is an absolute LEGEND. But I'm not a fan of Stranger's Wrath and not a fan of the sandbox element. I prefer Oddworld games in 2D side-scrolling motion.
Oddworld: New 'N' Tasty would have been PERFECT for Switch. What a missed opportunity.... I'm sorely disappointed that we're getting Strangers Wrath as opposed to an Abe's Oddysee game in remastered greatness.
I had only play Munch's Oddysee, Abe's Oddysee, and New N' Tasty so I might give this game a try if it ever came out.
@Razer Yeah but that's the problem with your thinking. See you have no idea why ea put a woman in this game. You assuma because they didn't want to offend a group that isn't even playing their game.
But do you really think ea out of all companies would change their games just because they fear they're gonna get some backlash? Of course not, just look at what they're doing in Belgium.
They are a business, they don't care about agendas. If they THINK a certain change in their games will benefit their business they will do it. So 3 possible reasons they made this change:
1. They think it's more profitable with it
2. Someone there actually really wanted it and thought it was a good idea or
3. Because they don't want to offend a certain minority of far-leftists that don't even play their game.
I'll let you figure out which one is the most probable.
I mean there are points to be made in this discussion but you are just overly hyperbolic.
-This change in the game is not rewriting history: Putting a cyborg in WW2 clearly makes this an alternate timeline and people know that. You don't see people trashing AC because they know that's clearly not what happened.
-There would still be some backlash if they kept the cyborg stuff but made the person a man. There are still sexist people if you like it or not. I mean in a male-centric community there is obviously going to be sexism when the industry tries to open up to woman. I mean a few years ago i would have had a problem with this myself. And i don't see everyone changing with me.
If its true, that's great! Now also bring the Abe's exodus remake (that's still into development) and Munch odyssey, please!
@Ensemen you're actually missing the point and your over complicating this. I'll try to explain this simply, this franchise is a historically accurate FPS simulator, its been praised by actual war veterans for this. This is why certain gamers buy it.
This game is called Battlefield 5, it's not called "Battlefield Alternate Reality"... Or another spin off. It is the 5th instalment of the mainline franchise that has its base within historically accurate FPS simulator.
Battlefield 5 features a bio mechanically engineered female super soldier...
And you don't think the backlash is justified?
1. Belgium is not done - why are you counting chickens before they hatch?
2. Fan backlack didn't cause EA to change tact with Star Wars? No?
3. Patrick Soderlund parting ways after 15 years 2 weeks after backlash for this game came out was unrelated i guess?
You are really over complicating this to fit your narrative that people who play these games are small minded.
to portray a woman as a bio super soldier in a game that has its reputation on historically accuracy is actually an insult to women who did serve in wars as NORMAL HUMANS
Is this backlash actually so hard to understand?
Edit: such a weak excuse to use that "alternative reality" rubbish when the game is the 5th instalment of the main franchise.
@Razer
Even if this game is not historically accurate, you not wanting to play it just because of it is moronic. If you don't play games to have fun, what do you even play them?
For a person who wants his opinion about historically accurate games to be respected, you sure crap a lot over other unrealistic fps franchises. You want your opinion to be respected? Then respect others and you haven't earned that.
People could easily outrun tanks, they were not fast. They didn't because they can't abandon the territory.
Bio engineered woman? You mean the prosthetic arm from the 1940's? Yeah, if that is bio engineered, then people with current prosthetic arms are robots. For a person who wants their games to be accurate you don't know a lot about history yourself.
I thought I read somewhere the Oddworld devs wouldn't put the series on Switch? Ah well, my mistake I guess and good for the Switch.
@JRRR92 iiif i want to play a game for its historical accuracy, why would i want to do that with a bio mechanically engineered super soldier?
If i want to play that game id play Halo...
Is that actually hard to understand? Some games built their reputation on certain strengths... Like Monster Hunter... Should those games abandon those strengths because "the game is fun", and in the process turn those fans away?
You not understanding this is actually moronic my friend.
"Prosthetic arm" really? Made of metal? On a woman that outruns tanks and survives close range explosion? On a front line battlefield? Go learn history 😂
@Razer Do you even read my posts? I said agai and again that there are some criticisms to be made but that you are being hyperbolic.
So what if its the 5th installment? Can't companies try something different? I mean look at COD they started as a realistic shooter and then ended up in the zombie and ghosts realm.
I'm not saying the backlash isn't justified. I think there are lots of people with a good reason to criticise ea for this decision but i also think there are lots of people being sexist and trying to excuse their behaviour.
1. I took the example of Belgium to show that ea doesn't care what their consumers think about them. They will go to court to be able to keep their anticonsumer behaviour. My point is that if they are willing to do that, why would they change a game just because they feared backlash. I think you misunderstood me there.
2. I say it one more time. There is criticism to be made. As simple as that. And what's your point here? I never said you shouldn't criticise them i said you should think about WHY you have a problem with this.
3. Yeah that's just another conspiracy theory. Look you think this SJW thing is a lot stronger than it actually is. To say that the CEO of a huge company left it because of the backlash to a game? come on that's ridiculous and you know it.
What what what? I never said that i think people that play battlefield are small minded. Stop putting words in my mouth and actually read my posts thank you.
SOLD!
Yup. Oddworld ftw
@Razer Yeah i understand you.
But my point was also that your assertion that ea did this to not offend a minority that doesn't even play their game is highly unlikely. Since we are talking about probably the greediest and most anticonsumer corporation in the gaming industry.
I just have a problem with people making everything out to be a SJW conspiracy. I think it makes you stubborn and ruins discussion.
@Razer Speaking as a person who used to drive MBTs in combat, I can tell you from experience that a normal human can, in fact, outrun a tank under the right conditions, and this is not in any way historically inaccurate.
This is even true today, but was particularly true regarding WWII-era tanks. Top road speed of a Tiger I on road is about 25 mph, but realistic cross-country speed is only about 12-16 mph, and that is in decent conditions. This is well within the limits of normal human running speeds.
Why does this look like Turok to me??
I would love an Steam World FPS/TPS similar to this.
@Razer
Nobody is saying that women with prosthetic limbs on the front lines is historically accurate, but you denying the prosthetic arms when you actually had no idea or the fact that you think you need super powers to outrun a tank when it's completely possible, shoes how little you actually know about WW2 facts.
Second, it's a video game, it is meant to entertain, period. You want historical accuracy? Go watch a documentary. Video games are meant to entertain and DICE is doing just that. If you can't understand that and think to be historically accurate is more important than to be fun, then video games are not for you.
So he finally came around. Hopefully he brings new n tasty
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