That's all well and good, if you're just another game company. But OI isn't about just making games. The idea (originally) was to create capital making revolutionary games in order to tell the quintology story via movies. With the Stranger game, they've changed their ethos, which is acceptable, as its probably just for the side-project, but that isn't a good enough reason to let earthlike wildlife slide by. As Max pointed out, anything done in this game with creatures and environment is, by definition, a part of the Oddworld universe. The Universe holds true for the games, and probably for the moveis. If they do something that doesn't fit, it affects the integrity of everything else. Stranger will surely be a good game, but I don't understand why a chippunkz would have to look like a talking-chipmunk instead of something actually ODD. The ability is there, and with these extra months EA has tacked on, it doesn't seem far-fetched to put just a little more thought into the feasibility of these characters.
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