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Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (Playstation)

Abe is back and in big trouble. It seems as though when Abe shut down Rupture Farms in Abe's Odyssey, he unknowingly created a shortage of a vital ingredient used in the Glukkons' most profitable product: SoulStorm Brew. Abe's gotta fix things again.

GT Interactive
Action, Adventure
Players: 2
T (Teen)
Developer: Oddworld Inhabitants
Released November 25, 1998

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

88 / 100

Critic Reviews

94	PSX Nation Abe's Exoddus isn't different in too many ways from the original but it harkens back to that old saying. "If it ain't broke then why fix it?" fans of the original will be totally pleased here.
94	GameSpot In Exoddus, you have an incredibly welcomed quick-save option that allows you to quickly save your progress, anywhere in the game as many times as you want.
93	Electronic Gaming Monthly It's Mudokons. SoulStorm brew is made out of Mudokons! You gotta tell them! [Jan 2004, p.188]
92	TotalGames.net A magical adventure in every sense, Abe's Exoddus stands oversized head and boney green shoulders above any competing title. Yes, it's a lot like "Oddysee," but it's ingeniously more complicated and so long they had to put it on two discs!
92	Absolute Playstation I found the overall balance of the game to be much improved from its predecessor and the gameplay controls tweaked just right. I also liked the save anywhere at anytime feature.
91	Game Revolution Gamers everywhere can enjoy this polished, stylized, highly addictive, unforgettable adventure and look forward to a bright future for the dark, hilarious world of Odd.
90	Official U.S. Playstation Magazine The GameSpeak feature alone is reason enough to play this one. [Nov 2001, p.50]
90	GMR Magazine It's very clever; the political overtones are great for that last-minute term paper. [Feb 2003, p.97]
90	All Game Guide Roberto Benigni may have gotten a lot of press for finding humor in the Holocaust, but Oddworld does it too, only the humor is dripping black. Yes, I just said Holocaust.
83	Gaming Age Along with great platforming action and pretty graphics, Abe’s Exoddus is riddled with some of the highest quality and most hilarious video sequences I’ve ever experienced.
80	Games Domain You can effectively race through the levels without being forced to solve all of the game's puzzles, which strikes me as something of a waste, and a concession to those less impatient souls that want to see all they can from a game in the shortest space of times.
78	IGN I was awfully frustrated with Abe's at first. But as I got to grips with the many audible commands, I really started falling in love.
69	Games Radar UK (Pre-2006) Empathy is the game's strongest suit, with tension coming a close second... As a whole the game's a classy, polished package.