Celebrity involvement is no guarantee a game will be any good (for evidence, see Vin Diesel's Wheelman, Tony Hawk's RIDE and anything involving an Olsen). This is partly down to the high production values. Yes, there are a fair few clichés and ideas we've seen before here, but it's still much more interesting and absorbing than it first appears. As the game unfolds, you realise this isn't just another average action adventure. Because although the first half hour of Enslaved would get anyone's snidey-sense tingling, what follows deserves more attention. Let's hope Trip has some Nurofen in her handbag.Īll right, that's enough scorn-pouring.
Just to hammer the point home there's a municipal monument covered in photographs of missing people, a device which might be more effective at evoking a sense of loss if it hadn't been used in every disaster film made since September 2001. It's New York this time, and there's some business with planes crashing into skyscrapers and tattered American flags. Here we are in yet another post-apocalyptic US city. (Once, just once, it would be nice to see a female game character wearing a fleece.) She's got a bottom you could bounce breeze blocks off and she's all tight trousers and boob tubes. When she's not doing that she's staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the muscley bloke, perhaps wondering if she recognises him from the Gay Xchange ad. Must be our hero, then.Īnd here's his sidekick, a hot redhead who's good for nothing but hacking computers to open laser doors. He's got abs you could take a brass rubbing from and he's wielding a big stick.
Oh look, a gruff, spiky-haired, shirtless man with shoulders bigger than his head.
Here we go again, you think, as the camera pans round yet another corridor on yet another rusty old spaceship. The first half-hour of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West could bring out the jaded cynic in any action adventure fan. To celebrate, here's our original review. Namco Bandai's hoping to convert more players as it finally brings it to PC this week. Modest in sales, that is - the few that played Ninja Theory's breezy adventure have often become passionate fans of it. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was a modest success when it launched in 2010.
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