Enslaved videogame revealed by Ninja Theory

Enslaved screenshot Game Informer scan. New Xbox 360/PS3 game from Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory
Enslaved is the newest game for Xbox 360 & PS3 from Ninja Theory, the developers of Heavenly Sword.

The game takes place “decades and decades” after World War III and World War IV . . . so super far in the future. In this future, the entire human race has almost been eradicated, but robots still plague the land. Although they are from a bygone era, they are still following their orders to eradicate the humans. The storyline is being written by Alex Garland (who wrote the script for the movie 28 Days Later) and is loosely based on the ancient Chinese novel “Journey to the West”.

Enslaved screenshots The main character in the game is called simply “Monkey”. He has spent his entire life running from the machines (that sounds so cliche . . .) and is your typical loner sort, a solitary man. Eventually Monkey is captured by the death machines, where he is placed on an airship. It is there that he meets a woman named Trip. Although they escape the airship working as a team, Monkey gets knocked unconscious at one point. When he comes to, he finds a mysterious headband that he cannot remove. It was apparently placed there by Trip, who needs him to help her get home. However because of his personality, she resorts to this magical headband, which will “crush his skull” if he doesn’t follow her orders. Thus Monkey and Trip have a strained relationship (to say the least) but know full well that they need each others help if they are going to survive this perilous world.

Combat in the game will apparently be similar to Heavenly Sword, but with much more focus on tactics. Monkey has the ability to use a dragonfly camera to scout ahead for enemies as well as to detect weak points in robots. For example he can detect machine gun attachments on a robot that are weak, and then rip the guns off and use them as weapons.

All of this was taken from the latest issue of Game Informer, who got the exclusive scoop. Sounds interesting.

Via Destructioid