Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 1997

Released: September 18, 1997
Genres: Platform · Puzzle · Adventure
Platforms: OnLive Game System · PlayStation 3 · PC · DOS · PlayStation · PlayStation Portable
Developer: Oddworld Inhabitants
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Oddworld Inhabitants' 1997 cinematic platformer for the PlayStation and PC, in which Abe, a slave at a meat processing plant, escapes and tries to free as many fellow Mudokons as he can. The game is two dimensional, across separate screens with puzzles, obstacles and enemies, and it saves only at checkpoints. Abe tiptoes to stay stealthy, jumps, rolls under obstacles and throws objects such as meat, rocks and grenades. In safe areas he can possess Sligs by telepathy, though chant suppressors block this in most other places, and he gives GameSpeak commands, follow, wait or activate a mechanism, to the Mudokons he rescues. It was the first of a planned five part Oddworld series. It still plays as a careful puzzle platformer: rescued Mudokons follow your commands and checkpoints are the only saves.