If you think Abe Exoddus is amongst the best game you've ever played, and believe this to be a good remake, then you'd be wrong.
The determinism of a puzzle plateformer is over. Instead, you get floaty movements, unresponsive grabs onto ledges, mudokons that should be helping you by throwing stuff not working half the time, dumb checkpoints that can softlock you and also forces you to loot again, areas where possession is prevented is sometimes not obvious as the flying orb is outside the screen view, an inventory and crafting system that resets after every level which also means there is too much loot that takes too much time to gather.
I am so incredibly disappointed, because it does look and sound pretty alright to me, and the story intrigues me, but not enough to go through the ordeal of the gameplay that I cannot tolerate any longer.

I bought this game when it was on offer for about £11.99. I would be so annoyed if I paid full price £29.99 for it.

I played the first level and initially quite liked the puzzle element, trying to evade the sligs, doing things in the right order to get past each scene, etc. But the instant joy-kill for me was the horrifically lame arcade style end of level Mudoken save or kill spree, where you have to try stop sligs from massacring 150 Mudokens all at once, then get scored on how many survived. That is so far removed from the original 1990's Abes Odyssey experience, where you had to take a few Mudokens at a time and navigate them through puzzles to try save them, that I instantly was not interested anymore and quit playing. It felt more like you had a connection with your fellow Mudokens when you are there with them walking side by side to a bird portal. This is just a crowd of people being butchered and if you're lucky you might save 80% of them.

If you want an arcade game with good art (that part is actually good) then give it a go. If you want to reconnect with the orignal Oddworld franchise, then steer well clear.

I managed to pick up this game, and all the others, from an exclusive external offer that got me the entire Oddworld series so far for... basically nothing at all. And let me tell you... I really don't see WHY this game has a Mixed review on Steam. This thing is FIRE.

For starters, I LOVE the re-done story of this game. No spoilers for those who haven't played it yet, though it has been out for about three years now, (only like seven more to go before OWI releases another Oddworld game, am I right?) But... this game took the events of Oddysee and managed to expand even more, especially since... you know, they DON'T just go right into the second game immediately - and I do mean IMMEDIATELY - after the first's events this time.

The new gameplay additions are what I'd call improvements. The inventory system works like a dream once you learn how it works, though I wish you could quick-cycle through more than two items at a time. And with a few exceptions, though that might be a stick-drift issue, Abe feels more precise than he ever was in any other game, not once did it feel like he wasn't doing what I told him to do. Plus, being selective on who to possess with Abe's chant is cool, though... I will admit I kinda liked the old version a little better, mostly since it worked through walls and allowed for more clever puzzles using enemies to your advantage.

And do I even need to talk about the visuals? This game looks freaking AMAZING. The 3D level designs in a 2.5D platform game are cool, and the game looks great on all accounts. From the cliff faces to the factory floors, it all looks stellar, and fits well within the tone of Oddworld. It remains bright, but yet the dark tone of the game itself makes it all make sense. Planet Oddworld never looked better.

Me gushing about this game aside, do I recommend it? Absolutely! Is it worth £30? Probably but don't take my word for that. Will we be waiting probably another 7 years for Oddworld Inhabitants to let us explore the next sector of this planet with Abe? More than likely, but I can count on them to make the final product look, play, and feel absolutely GREAT. This game isn't without it's flaws, of course, there's still a couple weird quirks and bugs, but none of it detracted from my great experience with Oddworld: Soulstorm. If you play Exoddus before playing this, take my advice: don't compare them to each other, because while they tell a similar story, they are two fundamentally different games.