Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Title: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8puPKA7IiWI
Soundtrack clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC2ttNyMjpw
ESRB information: T for blood, language, suggestive themes, violence

    When Enslaved came out, I thought it looked like the coolest game ever, but at that point I didn't have my xbox, now I have Enslaved and it is amazing.
    Enslaved has a unique story, you play as a man nicknamed "Monkey" and you are in a slave ship run by the combat machines called "mechs," when a girl named Trip hacks electronic parts of her holding sell, she escapes, in this event Monkey's holding cell is detached from the wall and he has to escape the slave ship. In the escape, Monkey grabs onto the last escape pod which Trip is inside, she launches the pod anyway and Monkey is knocked out on impact and wakes up with an enslaving headband around his head, Trip programmed it to discharge a lethal shock if she dies, so Monkey has no choice but to help her back to her hometown.
    Voice over is great, so are the facial animations, but there are some errors: there is a lot of jumping from handholds and climbing around, this could be a bit more interesting, but is really just hold your joystick in a direction to jump to that handhold, also programming stops you from running of cliffs or falling off ledges, which can make climbing downward difficult sometimes but developer Ninja Theory did a good job with combat as you have different attacks with your only weapon which is your staff. The staff has stun slashes, yellow smashes that deal high damage and plain hits, your staff can even shoot a plasma or stun blast from it's end. I thought that the character "Pigsy" was a bit annoying but still this game held my attention because even though there was an annoying character, he had good character depth.
    Enslaved is great and the ending is anything but anti-climactic, but at the end the story feels like it just stops and when the end of the epilogue faded out, I thought there would be something else but it just went to credits.
    So overall Enslaved was a great game with great voice over, combat, story and beautiful art and graphics but I still loved it even though there was a couple programming errors and irritating controls at a few parts.
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