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iRank93
ShooterFPS
SoloMeleeSci-FiHistoricalFirst Person
Steam👍 93%· 144KIGDB93· 14
Year 2013Dev Irrational Games · 2K GamesOn PlayStation 3 · Linux · PC
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Stands apart with strong narrative focus, dark, oppressive atmosphere and ranged combat, while skipping precision platforming
Columbia is the achievement — one of the most striking settings of its generation, with skyline traversal that gives fights genuine verticality. Elizabeth is well handled as a companion. Combat is narrower than the first BioShock: two weapons at a time, fewer environmental options, and the plasmid experimentation is largely gone.
Where it drifts furthest from Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath: combat.
Released 8 years after Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.
Genre100Game mode100Visuals72Setting68Combat40
