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01 Oddworld’s Inhabitants are revolting!

“[WE GIVE] THE PLAYER MUCH MORE AGENCY IN HOW THEY CHOOSE TO CONQUER THE GAME’S CHALLENGES.”

“The hot-wiring of the fire extinguisher into a flame thrower […] is particularly gratifying but extremely volatile,” Lorne Lanning tells us. But the veteran director and designer isn’t admitting to a past of pyromania, he’s talking about the possibilities of Oddworld: Soulstorm’s crafting system.

“As Abe was always an action/adventure/puzzle class of hero, he always had to scrounge up ways to cleverly get around his challenges, but those solutions were always locked

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