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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

SLUS-00190

 
 
PUBLISHER: GT Interactive Software Corp. DEVELOPER: Oddworld Inhabitants, Inc.
STYLE: Action RELEASE DATE: 8/1997
GAME SIZE: 582 MB UPC CODE: 7 42725 50023 5
PLAYERS: 1 or 2 PERIPHERALS: Memory Card 1 block
Description:
In a world run by ruthless meat barons, your entire race is about to become pie filling...Unless you can escape Rupture Farms and make it through the most inexplicably challenging gameplay in the known universe. Sound Odd? Welcome to Oddworld. A new kind of game and a brave new world of interaction. Communicate with real characters. Possess and blow away your enemies. Solve wicked situations. ODDWORLD: ABE'S ODDYSEE takes every game genre you've ever seen and blends them into a smorgasbord of pure gaming delight. So trust in Odd, and you'll never be hungry again!
  • An amazing new style of interactive gaming...It's A.L.I.V.E. (Aware Lifeforms In Virtual Entertainment)
  • Stunning, immersive, feature-film-quality graphical world of environments and realistic characters with REAL personalities.
  • Totally unique and innovative gameplay using features like GameSpeak, the ability to communicate with other characters in real-time, and ShadowPlay, the ability to hide in the shadows.
  • Mindblowing puzzles requiring you to use BOTH sides of your brain...One for 'twitch' skills, and the other for actual brainpower!
  • Truly immersive, interactive environment
  • No menus, inventory bars, scores, etc.
  • Player has infinite lives
  • Completely non-linear gameplay, multiple ways to solve every puzzle, and multiple storyline outcomes...depending on decisions you've made along the way.
  • Real-time musical conductor ensures that sound always matches the game's tempo...say goodbye to mindless background music!
  4 Stars 4.5 Stars  
   
  Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine
#1 Oct 97
PSM
#2 Oct 97
 
     
 

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