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heheh...I think you are all too fast to go towards accepting this as a game.

I think this is just OW pulling our legs. I mean...that thing looks too much like Stranger, I belive this is just a mish mash of rejected art, and maybe art for a new project, pulled together right in time for april fools.

I am even starting to belive it is a prototype Stranger.

I mean...do you remember how the idea for stranger came from a concept artist who wanted to make a darker game for oddworld, and that he convinced Lorne to do it?

This piece looks just like the perfect "missing link" to fill that place to me. I mean, you are a concept artist, you want to convince lorne that oddworld's darkside deserves a separate game, I think the perfect language for you to do that would be a concept piece, and this concept piece expresses the need for darkness while mixing it with oddworldity well enough to convince Lorne, but exagerated enough that he'd tone it down, and add more social messages into him, including the whole "no guns" twist.

In creature developing process, I belive there always is a point when one of the artists for some reason comes to a point where they find the core of the character, that picture that expresses all the coolness of the character, all the dinamicy of it in one image, but of course, since the character wont be a still image, but videogame character who has body language, signature abilities, multiple moods, multiple angles, a voice, and most importantly an enviroment to interact with; the concept artists have to modify the character to work well in all these aspects, specially the last, since the Oddworld universe is so well built, and so custom tailored to reflect our flaws.

I now am in denial to any other posiblity than an april fools joke.

I think it would be pretty lame of OWI to accept something so reminiscent of their last hero for the new one. I mean, look at the history, first you have Abe(Completly unseen), then you have Munch (NO reasemblance) then Stranger(NO reasemblance) and then Fangus(last one on steroids).

it's too much, I seriously hope OWI wouldnt fall into such cheapness.

That said, this guy obviously looks awesome, but I just dont think there is room for a MAIN character that looks so much like Stranger, I think I remember an interview about the making process of Munch, and I belive Lorne was pretty emphatic on communicating a completly separate look, so I dont think ONE new game would make him change so radically, so as to take so much of the basic reasemblance for the new char.