Allow us to introduce Tokyo Jungle, the latest video game to depict a world in which just about everything has gone to hell. Enslaved and Fallout: New Vegas are the most recent examples of the genre and there are numerous others in the pipeline, including Rage, Hybrid and Metro 2034. With so many games competing for your post apocalyptic dollar, how can Tokyo Jungle hope to capture your attention? Well, for one, it boasts a rather novel point of distinction.

Forget about your typical end of the world scenarios. You won’t be racing across the desert in a battle scarred truck or decapitating zombies with a baseball bat. It’s too late for that. Humanity is done and dusted and the animals have inherited the earth (or downtown Tokyo, at any rate). You’ll inhabit the skin of a wild beast and your goal is to track and kill your prey while remaining one step ahead of your own natural predators, which, quite bafflingly, appear to include dinosaurs. The action plays out on a 2D plane.

A collaboration between Sony’s Japan Studio, PlayStation C.A.M.P. and Crispy’s, Tokyo Jungle is set for release on the PlayStation Network in 2011.