Teen
ESRB Rating
Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
83
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.8
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

Description

The time and place is not known to us, but the food factories have found a new type of meat - delicious to all the inhabitants, and no-one knows the recipe. Following your stomach you find yourself in the factory, and make the most frightening and disgusting discovery: Your own race is that secret delicious food.

Alas, you are discovered, and the guards are marching towards you. You must escape, but you can't leave your friends to mercy of those eaters. You must rescue as many as you can, and tell the world the truth that lies beyond.

Essentially Abe's Odyssee is a platform game, with a darker atmosphere than most titles in the genre. You start without weapons but can use special powers such as chanting and farting to ward off foes.

Alternate Titles

  • "Abe a Go Go" -- Japanese title

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Merchant Title   Price  
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee    
GOG
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee $9.99  
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus $9.99  
ebay.com
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee    
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The Press Says

Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault) Nov 30, 1997 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
PC Gameplay (Benelux) Jan, 1998 92 out of 100 92
GameCola.net Mar, 2007 8.8 out of 10 88
PC Player (Germany) Dec, 1997 85 out of 100 85
MikroBitti Jan, 1998 84 out of 100 84
GameSpot Dec 08, 1997 8.1 out of 10 81
CyberJoy Apr 01, 1998 4 out of 5 80
PC Games (Germany) Dec 03, 1997 79 out of 100 79
GameStar (Germany) Dec, 1997 75 out of 100 75
Adventure Classic Gaming Aug 03, 1999 3 out of 5 60

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Trivia

In this first Oddworld game, the Mudokons had four-fingered hands, but in later Oddworld games, they have three-fingered hands. This was changed after complaints from the Japanese government. Four-fingered characters are offensive to the Japanese, because Japanese meat-workers often lost a finger (thus making them four-fingered).

To make it extra ironic, Abe's Oddysee begins and ends in a meat fabric...


This entry was contributed by Grant McLellan (554), Threadbare (581) and MAT Bronze Star Contributing Member (36840)
 

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