Describe Dishonored with any one element of the game and you’re immediately doing it a disservice. It’s a stealth game; it’s assassination with pistols and magic; it’s Victorian oppression mixed with steampunk sensibilities; it’s a step forward in directed storytelling; it’s an attempt to give you the freedom of games like Thief and Hitman with the rich history and sense of place of Bioshock and Deus Ex; it’s the architecture of Half Life 2 seen through the lens of a world from nearly two hundred years ago; It’s Dark Messiah without the boot. Dishonored is all of these things, and a whole lot else. Arkane has made a game whose influences are bursting out of its seams.
Dishonored is the culmination of all these ideas. It’s a joy to play, from the very first mission trudging through the stained sludge of the sewer systems right through to its impressive final act. It provides you with a choice of playstyles, and executes each of them with competence that would seem impossibly unrealistic were it not directly in front of you. In short, Dishonored is one of the best games of this year, and easily sits among the best of the past ten.
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