I can’t stress this enough Live Ammo is an unmitigated joy to use.
This is but a small selection of what the Live Ammo has to offer, with the full list comprising of such goodies as noisy chipmunks, skunks that make an enemy vomit and exploding bats. There’s a much higher risk of killing the enemy but hey, it’s effective. This time instead of sneaking about you can charge in, using the Thudslugs to knock the enemy back and then unleashing the Stingbees. Those who prefer the more direct approach can equip the Stingbees, which are bees fired rapidly like a machinegun, and Thudslugs, which are powerful enough to knock an enemy back. The idea would be to sneak from cover to cover, firing a Bolamite at an enemy and then stunning it with the Zappfly. Now, one way to do this would be to equip the Zappfly, which sends out an electrical jolt and stuns the enemy, and the Bolamite Spiders, which wrap up enemies in webbing and render them helpless for a short time.
Let me give you an example: there’s a large group of Wolvark ahead, outnumbering you ten to one. You can equip two pieces at a time and it adds a dimension to combat that I’ve never come across before, allowing you to approach fights in various ways. The Live Ammo consists of various creatures that you must hunt in the wild to replenish your supplies. For the entire game you only have access to one weapon, a crossbow, but instead of firing bolts it uses ‘Live Ammo’, and it’s this that really sets this game apart. It’s in this mode where the genius of Stranger’s Wrath starts to shine through. When the fighting starts you’ll definitely want to switch to first person mode, which is done seamlessly by clicking the right stick. Stranger isn’t much of a talker but numerous cutscenes drive the narrative forward until, quite shockingly, there is a heck of a twist that not only speeds up the pace of the story but changes the way the game is played.
It’s an interesting story, albeit one that starts off relatively slowly. The Doc, being the only person who can perform said operation, has decided he will need 20,000 bucks before he even gets changed into his scrubs, leaving Stranger to ponder where to get that sort of money. Despite seeming like a relatively chilled out chap, Stranger is desperately need of an operation, although initially we aren’t told why. Originally released on the Xbox back in 2005, the game tells the story of a bounty hunter named Stranger. This brings us to Just Add Water’s latest title, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD.
Free from the technical constraints of the previous generation of consoles, developers can optimise a classic so it can be released as intended, which not only pleases fans but introduces the game to a whole new audience who missed it the first time.
Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD is available now on PC and Switch, and it launches on February 11 for PlayStation and Xbox.HD remakes have been extremely popular over the last couple of years. Not to shabby for an old bounty hunter here’s hoping fans will get to see more of him in the future. With the HD version, players can enjoy the experience at 60fps, improved audio and 4K resolution. This partly because he’s got the exploration skills needed to track down his quarry and partly because of his unique “live” critter ammo-filled weaponry. Now, at least, fans based on the other two major platforms will be getting their chance to collect bounties as “Stranger.”įor those who may not be familiar with this one, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD beings players back into the Oddworld universe as “Stranger” a roughneck bounty hunter who absolutely shouldn’t be trifled with.
This iteration of the Xbox classic has been out for PC for quite a long time now, and it even made to Switch in January 2022. Thusly, the studio has announced the release of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD for PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Now that Oddworld: Soulstorm is out there for just about everything, Oddworld Inhabitants has shifted its attention back to making their older titles accessible to all fans.