It's a two way deal Stranger gets to hunt (literally) live ammo while his patient, doting 'pets' sit on his crossbow waiting for their turn to mete out justice on those who deserve to be hurt anyway. Instead, the grizzly, lizard-featured, behatted loner attaches compliant, but aggressive fuzzy wildlife to his crossbow, and uses them in a variety of combinations to get the job done. Stranger prefers his crossbow to dish out pain, but bolts evidently don't quite do it for him. He's a mysterious loner, a Bounty Hunter by profession, ever-prepared to put himself firmly in the firing line to bring in wrongdoers dead or alive - for Moolah, of course. Whatever the thinking, Stranger has his ways and means for survival. Maybe Oddworld was just really bored with the idea of making another game with traditional guns in it. Maybe his malformed hands just can't quite get on with the trigger mechanism.

Maybe he's just pissed off with being shot all the time. We're never sure exactly why, but it's a fact we have to take on board right from the start of Stranger's Wrath, Oddworld Inhabitant's three-year-in-the-making fusion of first-person combat and third-person action adventure.

'I don't like guns,' drawls the gravely-voiced Stranger as he snaps his enemy's favourite rifle in two.

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