Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Developer(s)Oddworld Inhabitants
Just Add Water (PC/PlayStation 3)
Square One (iOS/Android/BlackBerry)
Ouya
Publisher(s)EA Games (Xbox)
Oddworld Inhabitants (remaster)
Microids (Nintendo Switch)
Director(s)Lorne Lanning
Producer(s)Josh Heeren
Designer(s)Erik Yeo
Programmer(s)Charles Bloom
Artist(s)Ryan Ellis
Gautam Babbar
Writer(s)Lorne Lanning
Gautam Babbar
Composer(s)Michael Bross
SeriesOddworld
Platform(s)Xbox
Microsoft Windows
PlayStation 3
OnLive
PlayStation Vita
iOS
Android
Ouya
macOS
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Release
January 25, 2005
  • Xbox
    • NA: January 25, 2005
    • EU: March 3, 2005
    • AU: March 5, 2005
    Windows
    • WW: December 20, 2010 (2010-12-20)[2]
    • WW: September 14, 2012 (2012-09-14) (HD)[1]
    PlayStation 3 (PSN)
    • NA: December 27, 2011
    • EU: December 21, 2011
    • AU: December 21, 2011
    OnLive
    June 27, 2012[3]
    PlayStation Vita
    • NA: December 18, 2012
    • EU: December 19, 2012
    iOS
    November 27, 2014[4]
    Android
    December 8, 2014
    Ouya
    January 27, 2015
    OS X
    March 9, 2015
    Nintendo Switch
    January 23, 2020
    PlayStation 4, Xbox One
    February 11, 2022[5]
Genre(s)First-person, third-person shooter, action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is an action-adventure video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by Electronic Arts for the Xbox. It is the fourth overall entry of the Oddworld series. It was released on January 25, 2005.

The game details the adventures of Stranger, a fearsome bounty hunter. Throughout the game, Stranger pursues and captures outlaws in order to collect bounties. The goal is to ultimately earn enough moolah (in-game money) to pay for a mysterious life-saving operation. One of the most notable features is the "live ammunition" system, which is ammunition made of living creatures like fictional insects and small mammals, each with different uses and effects against enemies.

The game is re-released as part of the Oddboxx, a collection which includes all the Oddworld games released.[6][7] It was scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2010 on Windows through Steam,[8][9] but became available on December 20, 2010.[10] Development team Just Add Water developed an updated version of the game for release on the PlayStation 3 which was released on the PlayStation Network on December 21, 2011, in Europe and December 27, 2011, in North America. A mobile build was released in 2014 for Android and iOS. An Ouya build was released on January 27, 2015. A build for the Wii U was announced in June 2013,[11] but as of August 2015 the build was placed on-hold.[12] A Nintendo Switch port was released on January 23, 2020, co-published by Microids.[13][14]

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  4. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (27 November 2014). "Oddworld Stranger's Wrath out now for iOS". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  5. ^ Guillette, Kerri (2 February 2022). "Stranger's Wrath HD Coming To Playstation and Xbox On February 11th". But Why Tho? A Geek Community. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  6. ^ McElroy, Griffin (2010-04-25). "New Oddworld on hold, old Oddworlds coming to Steam this year". Joystiq. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  7. ^ Ohle, Tom (9 October 2009). "Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrat – Shacknews.com – Video Game News, Trailers, Game Videos, and Files". Shacknews.com. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  8. ^ Hinkle, David (2010-12-06). "The Oddboxx to launch in the '2010 Holiday Season' on Steam". Joystiq. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  9. ^ "Oddworld PC games on Steam delayed but still coming in 2010". News.bigdownload.com. 2010-04-23. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  10. ^ "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath on Steam". Store.steampowered.com. 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
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  13. ^ Nintendo (December 10, 2019). "Nintendo Switch - Indie World Showcase - 12.10.19". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  14. ^ Romano, Sal (January 6, 2020). "Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD for Switch launches January 23". Gematsu. Retrieved January 8, 2020.