Inhabitants of Oddworld premiered a new trailer for Oddworld: Soulstorm during the Epic Games Store spring showcase.
Here is an overview of the game, through the inhabitants of Oddworld:
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Oddworld: Soulstorm is the second game in a quintology. We met our reluctant hero, Abe, the Mudokon, in Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty.
Abe was born in a system that relegated his species to the bottom of the food chain. He and others worked quietly at RuptureFarms, the largest meat processing plant in the world run by Molluck, the Glukkon (part of the Magog Cartel). That changed in an instant after he accidentally overheard a sinister plan to increase RuptureFarms’ profits by turning Mudokons into food.
Abe, like any of us would do after hearing that we were going to become food, tries to escape silently, but along the way something inside him awakens. He simply cannot leave his fellow Mudokons behind. Their actions create a spark that triggers a movement and perhaps a revolution.
Oddworld: Soulstorm continues Abe’s evolutionary story. You will learn that revolutions start small, but real and lasting changes require the power of many and the power of hope. And that the opposing forces will use every means at their disposal, from propaganda to brute force, to repel even the smallest uprising.
Main features
- Action and adventure platform – Evolving the platform genre, adding RPG-lite elements with the player’s agency to play as you want, aggressively or passively.
- Narrative – A dark story with a distorted sense of humor that illuminates the ironies that exist in the human condition.
- 2.9D – Epic environments with a large scale to explore when entering the world, instead of being limited to the traditional sense of side scrolling platform.
- Quarma (think Karma) – Quarma is a real-time feedback feature that reflects your actions in the game and will influence Abe, his followers, his skills and his score throughout the game.
- Scavenger Economy – Pick up enemies, loot cabinets, rummage through garbage cans to acquire resources Swap them at vending machines for products that provide more agility in choosing how to overcome the many challenges of the game.
- Building – Use collected resources and vending machine products to create items to use as weapons or tools against characters and obstacles.
- Strength in numbers – The more followers you save, the stronger the revolt will become. Give handmade items to your followers. It is up to you to decide whether they will be aggressive or passive.
- Gameplay – A 2.9D action-adventure platform game. The expected playthrough the first time is estimated at 15 hours. Achievement hunters and perfectionists can easily play for dozens of hours.
- Leaderboards – All levels offer a counting system, leaderboards, achievements and badges.
Oddworld: Soulstorm will be released for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC through the Epic Games Store this spring.
See the footage below.
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