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6Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is an upcoming tactical action-adventure game in development by Ninja Theory. The game is to be published by Namco Bandai Games to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.
Enslaved is a story set one hundred and fifty years into the future where a global robotic war has decimated the Earth. In this future, nearly the entire human race has 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.
The main character in the game is called simply Monkey. He has spent his entire life running from the machines 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 technologically adept 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 doesnt follow her orders. As they try to make their way back to Trip's home village they must fight robots that have been laying dormant for years. The two of them have a strained relationship but in order to survive this perilous world they are going to need each other's help.
You control Monkey, using his various martial abilities and weapons including his retractable metal staff, a miniature robotic dragonfly, and electronic gloves that creates a shield to protect himself while protecting Trip—for if she dies, he dies. He also uses his climbing skills to ambush enemy robots in a given area. Although Trip isn't a fighter, she can protect herself by using a handheld EMP device to temporarily stun enimies which gives her time to escape.
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 explore the game to find and identify hidden enemy patrols. The dragonfly then displays the radius of said patrols detecting machine gun attachments on a robot that are weak, and then rip the guns off and use them as weapons. Or you can avoid combat altogether with Trip riding on your sholders. Another tactic would be using Trip as a distraction while you sneak up on enemies to brutally take them down.