![]() The ability to toggle between the two views makes for a flexible system that works surprisingly well given how intense the firefights can get.Īs far as the presentation goes, Stranger's Wrath's visuals and audio are coming along fine. Besides offering a wide field of vision, the perspective change gives Stranger access to a new melee attack, the charge, which is extremely useful for taking out foes or simply dodging the plethora of ammo that is aimed straight at him. What helps set the game apart from the pack, aside from the fact that Stranger's arsenal includes smack-talking chippunks, ravenously cute fuzzles, odiferous stunks, and silk-spinning bolamites, to name just a few, is the ability to switch between third- and first-person perspectives on the fly by simply clicking on the analog stick. With pockets of foes on the beach and in higher spots that afford a painfully clear shot of our boy, the sequence turns into something out of a traditional first-person shooter. Our mysterious antihero essentially does his own one-man Normandy beach landing. ![]() One of the levels we saw featured Stranger coming up on a settlement that was under siege. All the mechanics that you've been familiarizing yourself with over the course of the game, such as the stealth, melee, and the hilarious live ammo that's made up of a small zoo's worth of local fauna, are suddenly intensified a few times over. The shooting in Stranger's Wrath gets surprisingly intense later on in the game.įollowing the plot twist in the game's rich story, which has been previously hinted at in our other looks at Oddworld Stranger's Wrath, is a significant ramp up in the gameplay. Oddworld mastermind Lorne Lanning gave us a peek at some of the later levels in the game that revealed a surprisingly intense, and ultimately satisfying, shooter that manages to maintain the signature Oddworld humor. Today's demo of the title showed that underneath the unusual brand of personality-heavy gameplay elements that are an Oddworld staple along with an obviously impressive action-oriented skew, beats the heart of a wicked shooter. While the promising third-person action game has been shown off to good effect at various press events, we've only seen a small piece of the unique puzzle that is Oddworld Stranger's Wrath. We've gotten some good, long looks at Oddworld Inhabitants' Oddworld Stranger's Wrath over the past few months since its debut earlier this year.
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