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Namco Bandai has officially announced the upcoming action-adventure title, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, which is currently under development by Ninja Theory, due out in 2010.

Set 150 years from now in a post-apocalyptic America, it should go without saying that it will be a perilous journey, filled with killer robots and slave traders.

Players take on the role of Monkey, a strong and brutish loner, and his AI partner Trip, a technologically savvy but sheltered young woman from a peaceful community. Both become captured by a mysterious slave ship, which are rumored to harvest people and take them out west never to return. As they each attempt to escape, Trip realizes quickly that Monkey, with his raw strength and power, is the only hope she has of making the perilous journey back home. She hacks into a slave headband to enslave Monkey and link them together – if she dies, he dies. Her journey has now become his.

Co-written by Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later), and with Emmy, Golden Globe and Bafta nominee actor and director Andy Serkis to portray lead character Monkey, Ninja Theory is looking to create something which will stand out in the already crowded post-apocalyptic wasteland genre.