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You know that Slpinterz cell 3 will be releast just after 2. Both games in one year.
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Different Ubisoft studios, they started work on 3 as soon as they finished 1, whilst 2 other studios dealt with 2. This applies at OI too, as at any mid to large devco .
The assets (3D models, auido, music, level designs) are all in place as the Xbox version is virtually at Gold status, so the PS2 port (the reason the Xbox version is being delayed) barely requires any of the design and creations team memebers. Hence they are "twiddling their thumbs" abit, or soon will be.
Stranger 2 or another Oddworld game would of course be on the OI managements minds, and they would need to look to their current publishers (EA) for a green light and financing before looking elsewhere. They may not have an ongoing contract with EA, but you can bet the men with the fat wallets will have first dibs.
EA have seen the feeding frenzy that is developing around Stranger and would probably hedge OI toward a similarly styled first person game (rather than the relativley poor selling 3D puzzle game style of Munch or the commercial near suicide of a side scrolling 2D retrofest).
And so we get the overly excited headlines "Lorne asks EA if they want part of another game".
Either way OI cannot fail on this one. The combined power of their sheer talent and vision with Ea's marketing nous and wallop means OI are onto a winner already, but I think we'd see another Oddworld game even if it failed miserably. Lorne's a stubborn b'stard like that.
Thats why we love him.