Reception
Upon release, Stranger's Wrath received much critical acclaim with an average critic score of 87% at GameRankings and 88 out of 100 at Metacritic. It later was nominated for and won numerous awards for multiple media outlets. It was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Animation at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Interactive Achievement Awards, Best Artistic Graphics at GameSpot and Best Cinematics and Best Character (Stranger) at G4, while it was runner-up for Most Innovative Design on Xbox at IGN and won Best Xbox Exclusive Game from Play magazine and was listed in Game Informer's Top 50 Games of 2005 and Stranger included in their Top 10 Heroes of 2005.
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