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Ninja Theory reveals Enslaved, says almost nil about it photo

Remember Ninja Theory? It’s the studio responsible for the PS3-exclusive Heavenly Sword -- a third-person title in the vein of God of War starring a scantily clad and somewhat clever female lead. There were plans for a trilogy -- in fact, it was said in 2007 that the second game was already written -- but the developed dumped it in favor of another project. That project may have been revealed in the latest issue of gaming magazine Game Informer.

In the latest issue -- in a blurb, really -- it is revealed that Ninja Theory’s next title is called Enslaved. It’s set to be a "post-apocalyptic journey," and, that’s really all that was stated. Well, other than plans for Namco-Bandai to publish the title across platforms.

We’re up for anything Ninja Theory has to show. Heavenly Sword was on the cusp of being a great title. If it just had a bit more polish -- especially with the boss battles and SIX-AXIS motion crap -- we’d probably be talking about it in a radically different way. Hopefully, we’ll get some more substantive information about Enslaved in the near future.

[via Eurogamer]


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Preacher747's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 08:23
Preacher747
Hmmm... a "post-apocalyptic journey," if it's anything like Cormac McCarthy's The Road then sign me up.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 08:26
Xzyliac
I like Ninja Theory. Heavenly Sword was cool but the people behind are a neat bunch. My interest is piqued.
MCChampaignMillionaire's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 08:34
MCChampaignMillionaire
Seems like post-apocalyptic is the new middle age...another lately over-used setting for video games...
Demiath's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 08:58
Demiath
Heavenly Sword was interesting (and Nariko's conflicted badass personality sort of made up for her unsurprisingly limited wardrobe), but the hack'n slash mechanics were tragically flawed. I didn't mind the Sixaxis silliness at all; it was the curiously reactive, counter-heavy and jerky stop/start flow of the basic combat gameplay that made the game so tedious to play through.
Emrah's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 09:27
Emrah
I liked the sixaxis controls of that game. Just open your heart a little bit to motion controls, puhlease.

Heavenly sword also had the best facial animation to its date, but uncharted 2 seems to have done a little better.
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 09:36
pascuz46
I also like HS, and I want to see a sequel. I think it would be great.
Mushman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 09:46
Mushman
@Emrah

The facial animation was extraordinary in HS, better than 90 pecent of games today. Every graphical aspect of the game really was a showcase of current gen graphics and why they are vastly superior to last gen's. The textures were very high-res, the backdrops beautiful, and the character models astounding.

They really put a LOT of effort into that game. It did sell a million copies, eventually, but not enough profit was made. Shame because it had okay gameplay, it was copied from GoW 1/2 after all, both awesome games.

HS is one of the few games this generation that told a wonderful, brilliant revenge type story. Top that off with stellar acting (Andy Serkis did the dramatic direction) and it is, by far, one of my favourites of this generation.

I have high hopes they do something special with their new game.
Shadowiii's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 10:53
Shadowiii
Post-apocalyptic is this generation's World War II. Seriously, we should move on. Gears, Fallout, Borderlands, Killzone, Resistance, RAGE, etc....
HEL105's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 10:59
HEL105
I'm going to keep my eye on this. I played the hell out of Heavenly Sword on my buddy's PS3.
SnakeDude4Life's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 11:41
SnakeDude4Life
"but the developed dumped it"

WHAT!?! Oh man. I was really looking forward to playing a well done sequel. Now, now that the devloped dumped it... shit.
Kalmah's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/10/2009 17:16
Kalmah
Wow, would you look at that. Another post-apocalyptic game.
JynxShot's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2009 02:16
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Preacher747 at 09/10/2009 08:23
Hmmm... a "post-apocalyptic journey," if it's anything like Cormac McCarthy's The Road then sign me up.

YES. Fucking awesome comment. Any other post-apocalyptic is just ordinary, but you cited The Road.
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