You may recall a while back that Just Add Water hinted they were doing something with Abe, seems that the hint was refereeing to Abe HD.
In the March 2011 issue of Electronic Gaming Magazine there will be an interview with President of the Oddworld Inhabitants, Lorne Lanning. According to Lanning there will be an HD remake of the original title, and had this to say:
“Abe HD is going into production. It’s basically Abe’s Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer. So the way Just Add Water wants to approach it, we thought was very smart; they are not trying to reinvent any wheels. It’s like, ‘Can we make that experience in a new engine, with new tech, in the old way?’”
Lanning went on to talk about Strangers Wrath HD, which will be coming out for the ps3 too.
“All the normal maps and the PS3 rendering tech is being taken advantage of on all the characters and on the environments, so it’s been really cool to see how well that’s coming along. We never had it on [PS2], and the rendering capability of the PS3 speaks for itself, so if we can get the game experience on there, there’s nothing else like Stranger on Sony.”
We have Stranger all ready to go on XBLA, but the answer keeps being no. We’re still talking to them and we’re hoping to work it out.”
Expect more information when this issue hits news stands on Feb 14th!
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