It would not be hard to make sure numbers and images are right, we can tell scale is correct from playing the games already, and there's no reason for the numbers to be innacurate at all. Partly for scale with each other, and so that they can be comparable to ourselves.
They may not be lined up correctly, but there's not enough difference there to say whether Stranger is 8 or 9ft, it's still certain he's at 9, pretty much.
The gravity thing probably wasn't something planned, Oddworldian species are based on Earth vertabrates, i.e. skeletal and muscular structures, etc. etc. The planet obviously has similar gravity to Earth because of the similar physics we see in the games affecting creatures of similar size to ourselves. Thus, regardless of how it works, Oddworld in the fictional universe has the same/similar gravity to here, approx. 1G. Whether or not something such as this is possiblee in reality is uncertain, not because of inability of creatures to adapt to such gravity, but because their similarity to species from Earth means that they're going to function in pretty much the same way, so we know whether this is going to be plausible or not. Bear in mind that Oddworld itself is also very similar to Earth, with elements such as water present, and plants. The only thing that might be different is what's inside the planet's core, anything under the surface. Would it make a difference if Oddworld's crust was 25% the planet's tthickness, rather than the less than 5% our own crust makes up? (given that the core is denser than the surface).
Last edited by Zerox; 10-05-2008 at 06:19 AM..
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