Ninja Theory finally reveals Enslaved

By Robert Purchese Published 10 September, 2009

"A post-apocalyptic journey."

Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory has finally exposed its next game, "a post-apocalyptic journey" called Enslaved.

Those scant details spill from a taster of the October issue of Game Informer, which will be available soon.

The blurb also mentions that Enslaved will be a multiplatform game for Namco Bandai, but we knew that already.

Heavenly Sword was released in late 2007 as a PS3 exclusive, and the game made serious strides in digital acting, employing Gollum actor Andy Serkis as creative lead.

Unfortunately the rest of the game didn't really match up, and Sony left the series alone, freeing Ninja Theory to tackle a completely new concept.

Hopefully its arrival on the pages of Game Informer means our wait to discover Enslaved is finally nearly over.

Catch-up with our Heavenly Sword review to see what Ninja Theory is capable of.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • menage #1 2 years ago

    Post apocalyptic, whoopie.

  • BabyJesus #2 2 years ago

    Yeah, post apocalyptic is the new Bullet time.

  • jarek98 #3 2 years ago

    Heavenly Sword is a great game and it has sold quite ok (as for early title for PS3).
    I really would love to see a sequel.
    Edited by 1 at 10/09/09 @ 08:50

  • Kenshin001 #4 2 years ago

    This should really stand out given the distinct lack of games in post apocalyptic settings these days.

  • vegard #5 2 years ago

    a hack-n-slash based on the norwegian viking metal band? count me in!

  • Xerx3s #6 2 years ago

    "a post-apocalyptic journey"

    ALLLLL ABOARD! The train is leaving!

  • menage #7 2 years ago

    On the other hand, maybe the world is a better place after the apocalypse with green trees and naked people eating yoghurt all day, No...? Maybe not.

  • M_of_the_sys #8 2 years ago

    How many post-apocalyptic games have there been?
    I can only think of Fallout.

  • erp #9 2 years ago

    No screenshots or vids doesn't sound like much of a "reveal" to me. :(

  • menage #10 2 years ago

    @M of the sys

    Ehm

    If were talking about an actual nuke dropping on earth in a realistic environment maybe not that many, but PA games mostly means a lot of wrecked buildings, gray and brown.

  • metalangel #11 2 years ago

    @m_of_the_sys (that was fucking annoying to type on a phone, I can tell you): Gears of War is pretty post-apocalyptic, as is Half Life 2.

  • Arwin #12 2 years ago

    Actually, I think NT's vision of post-apocalyptic does indeed involve a lot more green than most games do. There was teaser art a long, long time ago, just after HS was released.

  • Prodigy_BE #13 2 years ago

    Have to agree with you Jarek. Heavenly Sword was cool. They spoiled every boss in the trailers leading up to the release, but apart from that, I loved it.

  • septimus #14 2 years ago

    I'd prefer a Heavenly Sword 2. The first wasn't that bad, especially considering the limited experience they had with PS3. Could have played better of course, but so could most things.

    Post apocalyptic band-wagon is getting a little overladen.

  • menage #15 2 years ago

    Wish there was a little more utopia instead of dystopia in games. Viva Pinata FTW!

  • ChthonicEcho #16 2 years ago

    @M_of_the_sys

    The Fallout series, Gears of War series, Half-Life series, Left 4 Dead, Resistance series and arguably S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games.

    That's not counting those that are yet to be released. There's a post-apocalyptic MMO coming out - Fallen Earth. Then there's RAGE.

    If not post-apocalypse, then it's utter local devastation and/or a wasteland-esque environment (Borderlands, Lost Planet, Prototype, to name a few).

  • menage #17 2 years ago

    Lost Planet get's of that train for me. At least it had some other scenery.

  • Doctor_What #18 2 years ago

    I actually thought that Serkis was trying to do an impersonation of the Sheriff from the BBC Robin Hood series in Heavenly Sword.

    The good guys were all serious, the baddies were straight out of panto. It had terrible writing! I've no idea why it's got such a reputation for it.

  • sneetch #19 2 years ago

    @ChthonicEcho

    Thanks for mentioning Left 4 Dead, I was just going to say that anyone complaining about post-apocalypse games is complaining about a lot of zombie games: such people will not be tolerated and will be fed to the ravening zombie hordes, for the good of us all, of course.

    Seeing as how there are so many types (or origins) of apocalypses saying that there's a "post-apocalyptic bandwagon" is a bit like saying there's a "war bandwagon" and lumping in everything from Call of Duty to Panzer General to Command and Conquer in it.

    Man this "war bandwagon" is a bit overloaded, so is the "sports and other organised activities bandwagon".

  • JACK_BURTON #20 2 years ago

    @ Doctor_What

    I am glad I was not the only one that thought Serkis was doing an impression of the sheriff. ;o)

    But to be fair, I enjoyed it. I found the last boss battle too hard. So this spoiled the game a little bit for me.
    Edited by 2 at 10/09/09 @ 12:15

  • actionfitz #21 2 years ago

    "Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory"

    erm if I made that game I wouldnt be letting on hehe.
    as to selling quite well - yes... because at launch there were sooo many quality titles to choose from ^^
    (I have a PS3 and am quite happy with my slender selection of games fyi).

  • crickson #22 2 years ago

    I really enjoyed Heavenly Sword, especially the soundtrack. It baffles me that a developer would go to the trouble of hiring someone like Nitin Sawhney to do a score, then not release a soundtrack CD or even a download from PSN. It's like they don't want my money.

    I thought HS was great, especially for a launch game. I'm sorry to hear there won't be a sequel.