Abe’s Oddysee is acclaimed as one of the best Platform games ever created for the Playstation, PC and Gameboy. Its unique setting, dark humour and twisted storyline draws people into an interactive world full of puzzles, hilarity and death defying moments. The purpose built game engine for the game was acclaimed for its lifelike AI and situations. The art and dark graphical concept only highlight the plot and characters.
Gameplay takes the form of controlling the Character Abe through his journey across the 2D platformer. The player, upon reaching the edge of one screen, is taken to a new screen meaning that each screen can take up and form their own little puzzles and feels as if each one is its own segregated level. The player can talk to other Mudokons (Abe’s race) and have them follow him in his escape, or aid him in doing things. He can roll, jump and pull levers. The game requires the player to think through the situations they’re presented with and the best way to get around them; one might require the player to stick to the shadows while another requires the player to move at the right time when the enemies back is turned.
The story is based upon Abe’s escape from the Rupture Farms meat processing plant in which he works after he overhears a conversation while performing his janitor duties. He learns that the new meat that the company plans on selling is actually Mudokon meat. Abe decides that he’s had enough and you’re to aid him in his escape, while attempting to save as many other Mudokon’s along the way.
The graphics and cut scenes especially are great for the game, the art style and design really draws you into the dark and grimy factory world the designers have created. The controls, while simple, allow a lot of freedom in the types of tasks required of the players that, though may be the same type of activity, the different situations make feel more dynamic as the story continues.
The interactivity of solving each puzzle to move forward, or the often hilarious conversations between other Mudokons that seem more funny as the game continues, has the player exploring the different options available and has them thinking about different ways of using their abilities to pass the different situations.
Overall the game has a fantastic story, amazing visuals and cut scenes and the dark humour only seems to add to the terribly dark setting that brings this game into the league of classics that has you wanting to play just a little bit more until the next checkpoint.
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