Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD is a remastered version of the original 2005 Xbox game Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath. It was developed by Just Add Water and published by Oddworld Inhabitants. The game was released on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3 in December 2011 and will be released for PC and PlayStation Vita in 2012.
The game can also be referred to as Stranger’s Wrath HD, Stranger HD or SWHD.
Changes
The largest changes made to Stranger’s Wrath HD are its increased video resolution and audio quality, updated character and environment polygon counts and texel densities, and redesigned graphical user interface. In addition, a number of easter eggs and unlockable media galleries were added to the game, and refinements made to its achievements.[1]
Display
- Menus, gameplay and FMVs now run at 720p.
: Except for the three fortune teller sequences,[2] all the FMVs were re-rendered to achieve this.[citation needed]
Assets
Menus
Extras
For a list of achievements in Stranger’s Wrath HD, see Achievements in Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath.
History
Just Add Water announced Stranger HD on their website on 3 September 2010, reporting the game would be released digitally for PlayStation 3 at Easter 2011. The press release declared that the remaster would feature ‘720p visuals; much more detail in the characters; normal mapping and self-shadowing; re-mastered dialogue, support for PlayStation®Move; and additional bonus material
’.[5]
Platforms
Although the announcement of Stranger’s Wrath HD only explicitly named PlayStation 3 as a release platform,[5] within a month Just Add Water clarified that they were talking to Microsoft about releasing also on Xbox 360, but that the final decision was not theirs to make.[6] As of December 2011, this is still the case.[7]
Stranger HD can't be published on Xbox Live Arcade because XBLA titles have a 2GiB size limit,[citation needed] while the original Stranger's Wrath is 2.1GiB[6] and the HD remaster is 3.2GiB.[citation needed] The game can't be published through Games On Demand because Oddworld Inhabitants have not previously published on Xbox two videogames selling more than ten thousand units.[citation needed]
Users who already own Stranger's Wrath on Steam will automatically have their game patched with the HD updates 2–3 months after the PlayStation 3 release,[citation needed] which is roughly the end of Q1 2012.
References
- ↑ Just Add Water (17 November 2011). ‘Stranger’s Wrath HD – Development Complete!’. News. Just Add Water website.
- ↑ H., Vaughn (20 December 2011). ‘Oddworld: Strangers Wrath Review’, paragraph 4. TheGamersHub.
- ↑ Lee, Dan (20 December 2011). ‘Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD Review’, paragraph 15. TheSixthAxis.
- ↑ Feltham, Jamie (20 December 2011). ‘Review / Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD (PS3)’, paragraph 11. That VideoGame Blog.
- ↑ a b Just Add Water (3 September 2010). ‘Do be a Stranger – Oddworld returns!’. News. Just Add Water official website.
- ↑ a b Just Add Water (27 September 2010). ‘Xbox360 yes/no?’. News. Just Add Water official website.
- ↑ Alf (19 December 2011). Reply to comment by EEB on ‘Stranger’s Wrath HD release dates’. Blog. Oddworld Inhabitants official website.