I finally finished Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (OSW from now on) a few weeks ago and thought I would write a quick review of it. What a great game. Highly underrated. I did a quick search for it at GameRankings.com and the average review for it is an 87%. I would agree with that rating and in fact, I think I would give it a higher rating – maybe a 95%. It is a truly great game. I enjoyed the hell out of it. The graphics, story, voice-acting, and even the weapons are superb. It ranks up there as a top 5 Xbox game in my book. If you haven’t played it, rent it or buy it – the price has dropped to $29 last time I looked. Well worth it.

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I just found out that Billy “Wicked” Wilson from VoodooExtreme.com died in March of this year at age 33. Wow. I worked for/with him for a short while when I did some writing for VE3D. We weren’t best friends or anything, but he was always kind and seemed like a cool guy – someone I could hang out with and be friends with. Hopefully he’s now in a place where the resolution is high, the polygons are plentiful, and everyone is an LPB.

So I played a bunch of Xbox games on Saturday. I played a lot of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath…really an underappreciated game. I am enjoying the heck out of it. I’ve almost finished it. I played a bit of SW: Republic Commando too but got stuck and gave up for the moment. I played some Psychonauts too – pretty good game for a platformer (which isn’t my favorite genre). I also started playing Raze’s Hell. Interesting game. There isn’t really too much special about it but I ended up playing it for about two hours. Not sure what kept me going. I will definitely play some more of it and possibly fully review it soon. Too many games, not enough time.

Went to a Durham Bulls baseball game today. Good fun. Beautiful day for it.