Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath 2005

Released: January 25, 2005
Genres: Shooter · Platform · Adventure
Platforms: Xbox · Ouya · Android · PC · iOS
Developer: Oddworld Inhabitants
Publisher: Electronic Arts
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Is it still worth playing?

Oddworld Inhabitants' 2005 action adventure for the Xbox, the fourth Oddworld. You play Stranger, a fearsome bounty hunter who captures outlaws, dead or alive, to collect bounties and earn enough moolah to pay for a life saving operation. It uses third person for travelling, platform jumping, rope climbing and melee, and first person for ranged weapons. Its crossbow fires live ammunition, small creatures used as projectiles with different effects, which you buy from vendors or find in the world. You can approach enemies face to face or hide and lure them toward you, and you can kill or stun them, with live captives earning the greater reward. While you attempt a capture you can do nothing else and are vulnerable. What you fire is still a choice in every fight, since the ammunition is made of living creatures.