In AO [and, to a certain extent, in AE] you could almost believe that Oddworld was a real place. You didn't believe that the games were real, of course, because they were 2D, but you could almost believe they were set in a real place. In short, while the games themselves were unrealistic, the world they were set in was very realistic.
But then along came Spooce, reminding you that Oddworld is just a computer game. Spooce just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that could be real. The same with 'Health', which AO and AE were refreshingly free of. In those games, you get shot, you die. Another thing that seems a little on shaky ground is the conversion of Normal Mudokons into Tomahawkers simply by taking them to an Oracle-Type thing.
These are just my impressions. I haven't got the game, so I don't claim to know how it actually feels to play it. I am merely judging from what I know of the game, and from what I've been told by people who have played it...
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