Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD coming Q2, see Munch's new model

by Jordan Mallory on Jan 14th 2012 12:00PM

Just Add Water, the developer responsible for bringing Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath back to life in high definition, will be releasing its HD remake of Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee by the end of Q2, according to the dev's Twitter account.

As our more crotchety readers will surely remember, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee was a launch title for the original Xbox, as well as the second chapter in the tragically unfinished Oddworld pentalogy. At the moment, all we have is the announcement, a logo and a small image of Munch's updated character model (which you can see after the break), but rest assured that we'll be on this like Sligs on a Mudokon.

Source: @jawltd (1), (2)

Tags: just-add-water, oddboxx, oddworld, Oddworld-Inhabitants, oddworld-munchs-oddysee, oddworld-munchs-oddysee-hd, playstation, ps3, PSN

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Sweet, they should also make it for Vita!

@Joysticker

Oh yeah and sorry for double commenting... but they both look extremely high! LOL

@Joysticker
They are making it for Vita. Joystiq even had a short blip about it from E3 2011... which is when this was announced.

@Joysticker They might do :) arn't they doing that to strangers wrath? I see no reason why they shouldn't do it to munch.

that's cool hope alot of people are excited for this.

I wonder if Microsoft will stop them from putting this one onto the xbla aswell XD

@hamopeace

i would like to just state once more that Microsoft is absolutely, ridiculously stupid for not getting all the Oddworld HD remakes on the 360, especially given how they were exclusive to the Xbox last gen. mooorons!!!

@Liquidfingers Yes, I'm sure MS is losing oodles and oodles of sleep over losing exclusitivity over an Xbox launch game (also on PC) which had lukewarm reception upon it's arrival.

Glad to see that some gaming gems will not be lost thanks to HD makeovers.

It makes economical sense too. The game is practically already designed, and developers just have to transfer everything to a more powerful engine and add the graphics. Not straight forward but certainly economic.

I hope to see HD remakes of other great games. Deus EX 1, Thief... the list is loooong.

@(Unverified)

The big question is though, did they tighten up the graphics on level 3?

I hope this comes as a free upgrade to the PC version like they're doing with Stranger's Wrath. I'd love to play this game in HD.

Did the Abe games ever come out in HD? I never played any but the beginning of the first one, and Stranger's Wrath, I'm not sure if I'd like them more now or not.

No, they are only be remade now.

I still hope this makes it to Xbox Live. It really doesn't make sense that it wouldn't being that the original was an Xbox launch title.

@Prboi
MS has strict size limitations for XBLA games, which is why Stranger's Wrath isn't on XBLA.

Plus, the original Munch's Oddysee is backwards compatible

@The Great Cornholio

Doesn't PSN have size limitations too?

@The Great Cornholio

Couldn't they just release it as a Games on Demand title? No size limitation there. Then it'd probably just be smacked down by the terms of service for the XBLA.

@tendoboy1984; Possibly, but there doesn't seem to be so. Record of Agarest War is around 9GB, and isn't considered a 'Full Title' along the lines of Games on Demand by the PlayStation Store's categorization methods.

Instead, to publish on PSN, you need to pay bandwidth fees.

@The Great Cornholio The original munches odyssey is backwards compatible but has virtually no sound, and plays like shit! I have tried many times, but they did a TERRIBLE job with it. It is unplayable.

I have both ps3 and xbox, but would rather this be an xbox title

@tehtimeisnow
Obvious fail troll is obvious (and failing)

I never got to play this or Strangers Wrath because at the time I wasn't really in a position to throw away £200 on an X-box with a laughable controller, stupid chunky size and no games worth talking about (until Halo came to town), but its awesome that I get to play these two games now and catch up on what I missed out on.

Saying that, Oddysee and Exodus were my favorite in the series and are amongst my favorite games of all time just because they are so different from 2D platformers you usually get. I had both games on EVERYTHING they could run on, PS2, PS1, PSP, PS3 and PC, why have i played the same game so many times? Dunno, guess its for the same reason I've played "Populous the beginning" endless times without ever getting bored of them, they are friggin awesome :D

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE HD REMAKES OF THE FIRST 2 (yes it had to be caps to emphasize how excited I am)

@(Unverified)
Halo came to town with the Xbox...

@(Unverified) Until HALO came to town? Halo was a launch title, so it came to town the same time the XBOX did.

@Disco Ball He probs means when halo became more popular like when it gained it's hype around no#3

@darkinchworm

I didn't mean it as in "Halo launched later", I meant that that was my personal opinion at the time and quite the majority's as well "until" we tried out Halo and thought "Actually, it does have one awesome game". Before you play Halo, nothing seemed that amazing and can you blame me for thinking that? This was bungie, the creators of that borefest Oni :/ So on paper Halo didn't ring any bells, when I tried it out at the local game store I was like, "I need an xbox! At least for this game!". I never did get one because I ended up just borrowing my mates who bought one and never used it. But I bought my 360 and I couldn't be happier :)

Tbh I was more irritable with the fact that my favorites Dino Crisis and Abe had moved over, I felt as though the developers had betrayed me for graphics.

@Spunky Monkey 190906

Until they track down the source code for the Abe games, there won't be an HD re-release of either.

@Gibbeynator

Didn't they say they were planning to?

@Gibbeynator

what do you mean "until they track down the Abe source code"? Both Odyssey and Exodus are on PSOne Classics, so they clearly have access to something for both of those games. Is it the source code? i dont know, but they have something. And the founder of Oddworld Inhabitants is actually helping JAW in making the HD remakes, and if anyone would have source code for these games it would be him

@Spunky Monkey 190906 Oni was brilliant. I'm really beginning to think you don't have a clue what you're talking about!

I bought them all on team during the sale and hopefully this is a free update to it.

@Doctalen

Wow, your optimism outshines mine by miles if you really think they'll just throw months of work at you as a free "update" :)

@Nobledevil Gaming Optimist They're doing it with strangers wrath IIRC. In march or so the HD update will be automatic for those who have it on steam and they won't need to buy it again.

@KGameLover1

Agreed. You know he's a troll when he can't even use decent grammar.

You guys are calling him a troll cause of his opinion... I like reading Joystiq but people like you are just as annoying and the real trolls. And you two bring up his grammar as and arguing point because you know you can't argue opinion, so why down vote and bother?

You're borderline trolls.

Ask L.A. Noire if PSN has size limitations. It's around 24GB

@DeathBeforeDawn

L.A. Noire is also for download on XBL. in fact, Xbox Live's Games on Demand section puts PSN's equivalent to shame, just so long as you exclude all the PSX and PS2 releases.

I don't get the reason for updating these games. It's just a texture pack right? They're the same games underneath the fancy new coat of paint.

It's like taking Donkey Kong Country and upping the resolution of the sprites. Not worth it just for a few measly graphics upgrades.

This trend of "HD-ifying" everything is kind of pointless. HD is just a resolution, it has nothing to do with increasing the amount of polygons onscreen and building a bigger game world that's more detailed.

Back in my day, we played games just fine without HD resolutions.

I have an HDTV with a Wii and PS3 hooked up to it. I don't really see the point, it's just a better resolution, more pixels.

HD is not enough for a next-gen console. We need substantial upgrades like previous consoles had. It seems everyone is focusing on the picture resolution, and not the console's actual computing power.

Or maybe I'm just blowing hot air out my ass. Feel free to correct me.

@tendoboy1984
Let's keep the spirit of Mega Man 9/10 and Dark Void Zero going by making Low Definition games. Gears of War LD, with hot Mode 7 graphics.

@tendoboy1984 All I'm reading is "Get off my lawn!"

That hot air directed at HD remasters is fine and good, I disagree, but it's a common and valid criticism. I wish they would do full on remakes, sort of like that one Live & Reloaded subtitled game I can't think of at the moment, but oh well. I'm buying for the most part.

As for your rant against HD resolutions, good lord mate. That's some of the most nitpicky nonsense I've ever read ... it's not 2006 anymore.

I'll just counter one of your points: 'It's just more pixels'. Hello infinitely more precise hit/collision detection!

I wish the HD generation brought more to the table, but at the same time I'm glad we have it, at least on two of the three anyways. I love my Wii as much as anyone, but you're mad if you think the gaming population would have been satisfied playing three standard definition consoles this generation. People were hungry for HD content to use on their HD TVs, and they finally got it ... and it's pretty damn glorious, and offers so much more than 'higher resolution' that you're just completely oblivious to.

@tendoboy1984 Agreed, but it has partial merits. Things such as re-releasing Ico & Shadow of the Colossus let people who may not have played titles which are now frustratingly hard to find if they missed them the first time. And in the case of Oddworld, if we ever want to see a continuation of the series, the devs definitely need more capital to make it happen. And if the HD upgrade is what it takes to entice new buyers, I guess that's good for them.

@tendoboy1984

I would take just having a friend over as a reason to play Donkey Kong Country again. You better believe higher resolution sprites would put a vacuum to my wallet!

Can't wait to see the wheelchair in HD!

aawk I don't know,
I think oddworld lost a lot of its charm when it moved from the 2d realm :(

I'd love for a new Oddworld game with them taking a leaf out of the rayman origins big book of retro fun :)

I bought Munch's Oddysee on Steam and have yet to play it.

@tehtimeisnow
I doubt you were even alive to have played it before...

I'd really like to see the original Abe's Oddysee get the HD treatment.

@ticklefist

well you're in luck, because they have already announced it! here's hoping we get Abe's Exoddus as well...it would only make sense.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/29/oddworld-abes-oddysee-hd-remake-under-development-at-just-add/

hopefully this one has less glitches. is it just me, or is Stranger's Wrath HD plagued by strange audio glitches where music sometimes overlaps or stops and loops at random intervals? also, i've encountered a couple times when lines of dialogue in FMV's are repeated, as well as the actual segment of that FMV as well....it's all a bit jarring, but when all is said and done it doesn't mean that Stranger's Wrath is any less of a great game, and given how it's an Oddworld game it's got that fantastic sense of humor and style. those natives really had me laughing for a bit. funny little bastards. :D

That's awesome news! One of my favorite games. I will gladly pay for an HD remake.

@tehtimeisnow just take a one way ticket to hell please that is all

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