{"id":3107,"date":"2010-10-12T07:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2010-10-12T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:17:01","slug":"enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3107","title":{"rendered":"Enslaved: Odyssey to the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3108\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/enslaved.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3108\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3108\" title=\"enslaved\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/enslaved.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/enslaved.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/enslaved-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trip, Monkey and Pigsy chillin&#39; on their Wasteland Vacation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I finished <em>Red Dead Redemption<\/em> over the weekend and have moved onto a new game to play.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called <em>Enslaved: Odyssey to the West<\/em> and its a post-apocalyptic adaption of the classic Chinese literature story of <em>Monkey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Although its not a particularly high profile game, the game has an strong pedigree behind its production.\u00a0 The script and direction was handled by Alex Garland (<em>The Beach, 28 Days Later<\/em>) and Monkey is voiced by Andy Serkis (<em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>).\u00a0 Their influence is immediately noticable.\u00a0 The writing and characterisation is uncommonly good for a video game.\u00a0 The characters are likeable, the voice acting is excellent and its one of the most interesting storylines I&#8217;ve played through in a video game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only in the very early stages of the game at the moment but I&#8217;m really digging it.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got nothing else to play at the moment, I&#8217;d suggest giving it a try.\u00a0 It&#8217;s available on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.\u00a0 It&#8217;s certainly a great game for wish fulfillment.\u00a0 Who hasn&#8217;t daydreamed of being a half-man, half-monkey hybrid roaming around on whacky adventures with a hot redhead and a manpig?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Red Dead Redemption over the weekend and have moved onto a new game to play.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and its a post-apocalyptic adaption of the classic Chinese literature story of Monkey. Although its not a particularly high profile game, the game has an strong pedigree behind its production.\u00a0 The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[659,660,658],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-gaming","tag-alex-garland","tag-andy-serkis","tag-monkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}