Abe's Oddysee HD renamed, gameplay details

Just Add Water has announced Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee HD has been renamed Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee New N' Tasty!

There have also been gameplay changes made to the remake of the classic PlayStation 1 title, with the game now being a side-scroller instead of using a 'screen flip'.

Just Add Water's Stewart Gilray told Eurogamer: "In the original game you looked through a screen flip and it was like, ah! You run away or you're dead.

"You had to make your decision before you went through the screen flip in the original game. But with this, because you can see farther in front of you, you can make that change in your gameplay there and then without having to go, I've died, I have to go back to the check point and re-do it."

Changing the game into a side-scrolling platformer will impact how players solve puzzles.

"In the original game, the fifth screen into it, there was a sleeping Slig. When you walked into the screen he woke up. To reset it you just walked off screen and came back on screen again creeping.

"We don't have flip screens anymore, so we've made it so he times out. Say he walks around for ten seconds and you haven't moved, he won't have heard anything and will go back to sleep again.

"It's little things like that. We've not changed it. We've just modernised it because it's not a flip screen game any more."

Abe's Oddysee New N' Tasty! is released on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC next year.