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Hilarious and very fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought an XBox and a few games for it. Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is by far the most addictive game. For those that enjoy puzzle solving/adventure games, this game and Vexx are probably the best for the XBox. However, if you like fighting a lot in video games, this game might not be for you because most of the time you are commanding fellow Mudokens to fight. This is the only minor downside to this game. You can fight, but you wont get far fighting by yourself.
The puzzle solving in this game is great. The puzzles will make you think for a while but will not be so hard as to frustrate you. One of the best features in this game is the Quicksave which allows you to continue a saved game at the exact spot that you left off. This is handy when you are about to attempt something that you are not sure will work.
The length of this game is about right also. There are 25 levels in this game. Each level will take anywhere from 5 minutes (only the first one) to 1 hour to complete. This game also features some cut scenes between levels, some of which are very funny with all having great graphics.
The characters in this game are awesome also. They interact with each other and have to work together to solve most of the puzzles. The voices and sound on this game are much better than most adventure games. For twenty bucks, you can't go wrong with buying this game.

ODDWORLD

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a game for all the family. You get to control 2 characters "ABE" "MUNCH". Abe is best on land by running fast, jumping high, mind controling enemies, telling friends to help him out and more. Munch is small and he can swim, use a wheel chair to move faster, rescue small fury creatures and more. If you like Crash Bandicoot(I thought Crash 2 was best followed by Crash 1)then you'll like this.

PRO'S

the price
not violent
quite original
make kids laugh
Great graphics

infinity health
No time limit to finish missions
90% of game Not hard(My friend with learning dicabilities could play this).
save anywere
good cutcenes(you can skip them)

quite repetetive
takes 10 days or more to finish
sometimes you don't know what to do next(I didn't play the game for months then I got back to it and completed it).

Odd but fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a simple yet fun game. You get control of two charaters. You need more of brain than brawn to play this game as it is full of puzzles. For instance, you need his friends to open doors, so you must pick each of them up and throw them over the wall to get to the door. Little puzzles like this make the game interesting. You need to collect these green orbs to use to complete tasks. The more you collect the more it helps to complete the missions. It is a cute game that is for all ages.

The experience of the game is incredible. The landscape and detail of the game is incredible. The flowing water, the mountains, the sun and darkness all add to the great effects of the game.

This simple yet fun and funny game is a must have for all xbox owners.

Awesome for the first half, then gets repetitive and boring.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For the first 10 levels or so, this game was one of the best games I had ever played. I'd never tried any of the previous Oddworld titles, so this game's creative blend of goofiness and corporate/consumer-culture commentary was a great surprise. The way the game turned regular game conventions and stereotypes upside-down was really cool (having the hero of a game be wheelchair-bound is just *awesome*). The gameplay was also very innovative... It's like a puzzle game in the guise of a platform game (e.g. Sonic Adventure), but with some good aspects of platform games. I loved the fact that I had to use my head instead of my lightning-fast reflexes (which I don't actually have).

Another thing that impressed me with the first ten levels or so was the fact that they were all completely different. For the most part, they required totally different strategies and had different objectives; to a certain extent, each level was like coming into an entirely new kind of game. I also liked the fact that between most of the levels was an interesting cutscene developing the story.

But about halfway through the game, things started to get really stale. Between each level, there was either no cutscene at all, or a really short cutscene showing the typical "newspaper spinning at the camera" shot with headlines describing things I had done in the last level. This offered little character development, and as there wasn't any story-related dialogue during the game itself (the story isn't integrated into the levels themselves, but between them), I never really got particularly fond of the two lead characters. The plot became fairly stale because the two lead characters spend a great bulk of the middle levels doing the same kind of thing; I can't really explain this any more because I don't want to give away any spoilers, but needless to say, the plot doesn't develop much at all throughout most of the middle of the game.

On top of the characters and plot getting stale, though, the gameplay just got boring. For the most part, the strategies needed to get through levels either became analogous to strategies used in previous levels, or they were utterly mindless and easy to the point that they resembled the "pull the lever, go to the door the lever just opened, pull another lever, go through the new door that just opened, and so on, ad infinitum" style of gameplay present in non-puzzle games like Doom. Some of the "puzzles" were simply exercises in tedium, such as when you have to pick up dozens of fragile egg crates, one by one, and throw them into a well without breaking them. This is repetitive manual labor; it is not fun, and it is not even gameplay. To be fair, there were a few really good brainteasers in the last half of Munch's Oddysee, but for the most part they were diluted in a slew of boring tasks and minor tweaks of puzzles I had already seen earlier in the game.

I get the impression that the designers of many games including this one were thinking "[...] we need to make a game that takes at least 30 hours to win... let's put in some repetitive tasks!" If this game were about half as long as it ended up being, I would have absolutely loved it. I don't really understand this obsession with making games that take so long to win. Films, for instance, are around 2 hours long and most of them are a lot more fun to watch than the average 30-hour video game is to play. Of course, a few games, like Deus Ex and Planescape: Torment use those 30+ hours very wisely, but most games seem to fill the majority of their time with fluff.

Anyways, in the end, I'd definitely give the first several levels of this game a try; as I mentioned at the beginning, for the first 10 levels or so, this was one of the best games I'd ever played.

Not your mother's old fashioned game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The only way to describe this game is awesome. The game tests your problem solving ability as well as your eye hand coordination. Its a role playing game without the open ended bull. Its a 3rd person shooter without the shooting. The graphics, yes are no more impressive than a PS2--but have you seen the latest PS2 stuff, are cool and the voice overs are excellent. I started playing at 3 pm and didn't stop till 9 pm. This game will suck you in. Be prepared for a challenge.

Must Have

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I don't know where to start. This was an absolutely great game! I played it at my cousin's non-stop and that's the reason I got an x-box in the first place. I thought all the games were fighting and racing but when I played this I immediately changed my mind and got an x-box about a week later. It has awesome graphics and it is humorous. I haven't played any other oddworld games but I know I have to now. I thought it was hilarious that Abe could fart! lol and the wheelchair cracks me up. The little guys are so cute too! I loved this game and everything about it. If you don't like it, there is seriously something wrong with you. I have no complaints about this game whatsoever.

Cool Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for X-BOX,it might make people want X-BOX instead of PS2 or Gamecube.I played the first Oddworld for Playstation1,I loved it I think this is a great game but I wish it was coming for PS2,my system.....

Very fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is very fun.I spent hours playing it.Really easy though.I wish it had more puzzle and less fighting.Its humor is for mostly teens and adults.I dont recomend this game for people 7 and under.Its a great game though.5 stars!

Kind of Weird

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is really wierd. But it is fun in the end. I think most people will like it. If you like Shrek this ones for you. If you like Whacked you will probably like this. If you don't like both of them you may not like this and I suggest you rent it.

This is why I bought the Xbox

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Xbox for this game, since I loved both the Oddworld games on Playstation. It's a little short, but brilliant. Quirky, with a sense of humor and interesting puzzles. The graphics are stunning--you'll find yourself walking up to the edges of cliffs to look out at the vista.

There's supposed to be a sequel, Munch's Exoddus, but it's taking forever to come out. I'm dying to see what Oddworld does next.

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