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If everything goes according to plan, Oddworld fans will have a lot to look forward to from developer Just Add Water. The architects of the upcoming PlayStation 3 remake of Stranger's Wrath hope to create a total of six Oddworld games in the coming years.

Speaking with Joystiq over email, Just Add Water managing director Stewart Gilray discussed some of the company's goals for the franchise (planned by original developer Oddworld Inhabitants as the five-part "Oddworld Quintology"). According to Gilray, the company's starting with side story Stranger's Wrath rather than the first true entry, Abe's Oddysee, because of the game's high marks on Metacritic, and due to the "astounding technology" Oddworld Inhabitants created for Stranger's.

"As I've said in the past the relationship is very symbiotic," Gilray explained. "Whilst we are doing the work on it, we like to involve [Oddworld Inhabitants], so they can see progress, they can suggest things, we can ask their thoughts/opinions on stuff, it's very much a co-production in some respects."

There's no telling what the team has brewing for the remaining five games, but it's worth noting that the total of six games could allow the team to remake the first game, then Munch's Oddysee, plus three new games to finally complete the Oddworld Quintology -- though that would also leave little room for a remake of odd-game-out Abe's Exoddus.

i found that they put a new game on hold from a nother news report :/