Excluding the recent New ’n’ Tasty remake, the last time we saw Abe in an Oddworld game was in 2001’s Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee , where he led his fellow Mudokons to freedom after generations of enslavement at the hands of the Glukkons.
, where he led his fellow Mudokons to freedom after generations of enslavement at the hands of the Glukkons. And what became of our alien friends after said liberation? They got stranded in a desert, apparently. With no food to boot.
Thus is the premise of the latest offering from Oddworld Inhabitants Inc., named Oddworld: Soulstorm . In this latest game, Abe must lead his party of 300 Mudokons across a treacherous landscape in search of shelter. They will, according to the official Soulstorm website, encounter not only the dangers of the wilderness, but also “an incendiary tale of uprising and infiltration against the latest in soul-sucking consumer products.”
Speaking of soul-sucking consumerism, the lost Mudokons have but one source of solace to which they turn, which the Soulstorm press kit describes as “a delicious drink that has insidious ramifications for their newfound freedom.”