Enslaved: Odyssey to the West for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

This game looks great, especially the character models and facial animations. The story, through most of the game, is top notch. It's just unfortunate the rest of the game wasn't held to these standards.

One of the biggest problems with the game is the platforming. Instead of being frustratingly hard to play, this game took the extreme opposite position and made the platforming completely foolproof to the point of boredom. In this game you can't miss a jump, you can't miss a handhold while climbing and every climbing sequence is almost exclusively a linear path (with the only exceptions being the occasional detour for tech point collection).

One problem that really bothered me but didn't seem to bother others is the camera. It's default was at an awkward angle that I didn't like, it was low and at a slight angle. The game also liked to randomly give you fixed camera positions that changed your control angle, as opposed to games that kept the controls at the same angle unless you released the stick. The worst thing to me though was the far too close combat camera. It made it difficult to strategically fight as the only thing you could see was the mech you were attacking, compounding the combat deficiencies.

Speaking of the combat, the game does do a decent job of mixing things up with shooting sections and a rail shooting section, but the basic combat was very repetitious, simplistic and tedious. It wasn't difficult either, that just compounded the problem. There were a couple of good boss fights that were mitigated by a couple of sloppy chase scenes, but the final boss fight was fairly epic in scope.

Now let's get to the most disappointing thing, the way the story ends. I will avoid spoilers, naturally, but I will just say for as good as the story was up to the epilogue, it unfortunately unraveled into a mess of cliche and a poorly implemented twist. I can say no more without spoiling, other than it knocked 1.5-2 points off the score.