Archive:Stranger's Wrath HD – Development Complete!
Description
About
- Published: 17 November 2011
- Host: Jawltd.com
- Author: JAW Sysadmin
- Game: Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
- Format: Publised Online
The Blog Post
The title says it all, for the past 9 months we’ve been working our asses off to get it done, now it’s done…
Release date etc coming soon, in the meantime check out these details of the update!
Characters
- All 84 character models have been updated with increased polygon counts and higher resolution textures.
- This includes all three variations of Live Ammo: Those in the environment, those on the Crossbow and those in the General Store.
- Wolvark Sloghandlers now release Slogs instead of Slegs.
- Professor Dimble now has glasses and an academic tome.
- Jo’ Mamma has a deeper voice.
Environments
- All environments have been given higher resolution textures.
- Most vegetation has been updated with increased polygon counts and/or higher resolution textures.
- A lot of environment is now reflected in water where it didn’t before.
- Pipes and barrels rounded.
- Added Blisterz Booty’s broken crud gun to the floor by his bola’d body, as it is in the opening CG Cinematic.
- Sekto’s Office has been changed to more closely resemble than seen in the CG Cinematic.
Audio
- All game audio (voice, sound effects and music) have been upgraded to 16-bit 44KHz from 8-bit 11KHz or less!
- Support for 5.1, Dolby Digital and DTS.
- New female voices have been recorded for two characters.
Display
- Everything now runs at 720p, 60 FPS, widescreen.
- All UI menus have been updated with a new design based on original unused concepts.
- Textures added to stamina and bounty bars.
- Save game GUIs replaced with standard PlayStation 3 interface.
- New posters now occupy the inventory menu when no bounty is accepted.
- MLAA – Full screen PS3 only anti-aliasing
Difficulty
- All armour upgrades now actually increase Stranger’s health.
- Added difficulty levels to the game: Easy, Medium and Hard.
- In easy mode, Stranger has twice the health; Enemies have half the health and stamina, and their stamina recovers half as fast.
- In hard mode, Stranger has a third less health and enemies take a bit more to kill
Unlockables
- 37 trophies: 23 bronze, 8 silver, 5 gold, 1 platinum
- 18 of these are brand new, not in the PC port.
- Unlockable concept art and movie extras for completing each region of the game.