Original Oddworld games on PSN this Thursday
- October 19, 2009 18:42 PM PST
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Classic PlayStation games Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe's Exodus will be available to download this Thursday for $9.99 each.
Oddworld Inhabitants president Lorne Lanning confirmed today that both of the original Oddworld games will be available to download in the PlayStation Store this Thursday for $9.99 each. The titles, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, and Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, were originally released on the PlayStation and PC back in 1997 and 1998 respectively.
In an enthusiastic post on the official PlayStation blog he communicated how pleased he was to see these elegant puzzle-based platform games revived as "classics."
"We couldn?t have been more thrilled when we learned that the PlayStation Network was willing to offer our classic Abe games to an entirely new generation of gamers. Finally, gamers who never got the chance to meet and play him when he first came out on the PSone system, will now get that chance to meet the guy who graced many magazine covers and proved the unlikely hero that captured people?s hearts."
He went on to note how significant the games were at a time of tremendous creative change in the games industry.
"We poured years of our lives into both Abe games as part of the love affair that we had with the original PSone system. It was our first character and story to be developed by our new company and I had promised Sherry McKenna, Oddworld CEO, that we would create characters that even she would love. Characters that would make her laugh and that she could be proud of, even though she didn?t care about games. (To this day, Abe is still her favorite) Gaming seemed such a blank slate of possibilities back then. It was an early super-cool medium with which we could start telling stories of our own. We wanted characters living through stories that might inspire people while still enabling them many hours of challenge and entertainment. We wanted to integrate the best of our previous trade from the visual effects field to delve deeper into the storytelling potential with this exciting, rapidly evolving interactive medium."
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- Oct 19 2009 at 07:26:31:PM PST
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they should start putting ps2 games on the psn a few id like to see are the metal gear games and shadow of the colossus
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awsome!!!! its been years since the last time i played these game!!! definitely going to buy it with Trine! It could be even better if they remake oddworld in HD!!!
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abes oddysee is one of my all time favorite games,havent really played the 2nd one thats when i was all saturn. cant wait till thursday!!!!!!!
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Man, the Oddworld series, and the first two games in particular, were just amazing. But I'm not sure I'd be up for spending $20 more to play them again. Sure, the ability to play on the PS3 and PSP is great, but if they were about six bucks each, I'd be buying them in a snap.
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I can't wait to see the Oddworld games on the PSP screen. The art has always been beautiful, but seeing it on that smaller display is really going to help them overcome some of the resolution issues. They're pretty long games, as I recall - and fundamentally very well designed - so I think you'll get your money's worth out of them at $9.99 a pop.
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This code is good for a free download of Abe's Exxodus on PSN. 37JL-THB3-CL57 It can only be used once for the first lucky person. Winner please post and maybe a new code for Oddysee will appear. Enjoy! Your friends at Oddworld.
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Awesome, thanks for the code! Loved this game back on the PS1. Looking forward to playing it again!
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