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At this point, we might as well assume the game is in black and white. 
JAW had plans, but we all know what happened there. Kind of.
Honestly, it's doubtful Hand of Odd will ever surface, unfortunately. I might be wrong, but I don't think the demographic of the common Oddworld player would look favourably upon an RTS game. Most Oddworld players have trouble accepting a game that doesn't even have Abe in it. |
I say the jump from 2D platformer to 3D platoformer and finally to First-to-Third Person Shooter was pretty substantial if you ask me - and for what it was, Stranger's Wrath was very well done. As Lorne mentioned, the only reason it didn't do so well was because EA screwed him over on marketing after Munch's Oddysee failed. I think the jump from what Oddworld is currently to an RTS isn't very far fetched at all to be honest.
Plus, sometimes you gotta just take a jump and a gamble. Look at what happened to Fallout... It was an RTS that one day turned into a first person shooter with its third game for like no reason at all and that became one of the best selling games of all time.