The Therapist Gamer

Stranger's Wrath was originally released for the PlayStation 2 but was HDed up and released on the PS3 and PS Vita.  At it's core it's a bounty hunter game.  You play as an unidentified creature who receives contracts as you move from town to town.  The game is playable in both first and third person view.  In first person view you have a crossbow-like weapon that can hold two projectiles at a time; the twist is that the projectiles are living animals!  Each animal you fire has a unique effect, and each one can be caught in the open-world environment.  As an example, one projectile might temporarily paralyze an enemy while another ties it up.

 

I think the story is actually pretty good - which surprised me.  Towards the start of the game your character goes to the doctor to get a quote on a much needed operation.  The doctor gives a very high price - one that is almost unattainable just by collecting bounties.  Your character becomes aware that there is an insanely high payout if he can manage to capture or kill a creature known as a Steef, and much of the story from that point focuses on you competing with other bounty hunters to claim the last surviving Steef.  The story sounds a little tame, but it gets very engaging about half way through the game.

 

The game shows it's age in the control scheme and camera controls - both just seem clunky by modern standards. If you don't play the game for awhile you will likely have trouble upon returning because there isn't really a UI around the quest system.  For example, you might have completed a bounty but had not gone back and turned it in, and if you don't remember where you are supposed to go to turn it in then you'll just have to guess, which can be a tedious process. All in all, though, the game holds up pretty well and was probably ahead of it's time when it came out.