    Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Preview   Posted by: Sarah
LeBoeuf  Nearly three years ago, less than twelve months into
the PlayStation 3’s life, Heavenly Sword was one of the first
big exclusives for the console. Often called “God of War with a
chick”, the Ninja Theory-developed action-adventure game didn’t
turn out to be the next big franchise that Sony wanted it to be,
and plans for a sequel were scrapped in favor of a new,
multiplatform project from the developer. Now Ninja Theory’s
next game, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, is only a few months
away from release, meaning that gamers will finally be able to
see what the developer learned from their first experience of
this generation.  Enslaved is loosely based on the centuries-old
Chinese novel Journey to the West, sometimes known as Monkey in
English-speaking countries. However, instead of being set in the
sixteenth century, Enslaved takes place about a 150 years in the
future. A wide-spanning war has wiped out most of the human
race, and robots left