

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. She hacks into a slave headband and fits it on Monkey, linking them together – if she dies, he dies… Her journey has now become his and Monkey must now travel west alongside Trip as they traverse a demolished world, under constant threat of capture and mortal peril.Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was a modest success when it launched in 2010.

She quickly realizes that Monkey, with his raw strength and power, is her only hope to survive the perilous journey back to her home. Trip, a technologically savvy young woman who has also been imprisoned by the same ship, manages to escape. In Enslaved, players take on the role of Monkey, a strong and athletic, yet solitary figure, who been captured by one of the mysterious slave ships, which harvest the remaining population and take them out west never to return.

Set 150 years from now, the world has been ruined by war and ecological disaster with only a handful of survivors remaining. Learn more about the Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Model BrandĮnslaved is a post-apocalyptic retelling of the classic 400-year old novel ‘Journey to the West’.
