Dishonoured is an instant classic, gore em' up slash fest, full of stealth, wits and sudden game-changers.
Dishonored is amazing game with great gameplay,but there is that something that keeps it from being a masterpiece.
Dishonored's engrossing world and intoxicating interplay of supernatural powers make it a game you'll want to play more than once.
Dishonored is a game about many things. It's about revenge; armed with deadly weapons and supernatural powers, you seek vengeance upon all of those who orchestrated your downfall. It's about a city; the plague-ridden industrial port of Dunwall is lovely to behold, exciting to explore, and seething with secrets. It's about people; an array of vibrant characters await you, and as you get to know them, you are drawn further into their intrigues, hopes, and heartbreaks. But above all, it's about choice. The incredible variety of ways you can engage or evade your enemies makes Dishonored impressively flexible and utterly captivating.
You play as Corvo Attano, former bodyguard to the empress and current death row inmate. The prologue chronicling Corvo's crime not only inflames your desire for revenge, but also sparks your affection for a vulnerable character. These dual fires foreshadow the choice you have to make each time you encounter an enemy: do you walk the bloody path of brutal vengeance, or take the nonlethal high road and rise above the violence that suffuses the city? Your actions have small, yet tangible consequences throughout your quest, and it's up to you to decide what kind of retribution you want.
A cadre of conspirators helps you escape imprisonment, and you find out that they are plotting to bring down the very men who wronged you. These characters embody familiar archetypes--the dutiful admiral, the egotistical nobleman, the cheeky servant--but Dishonored is not content with one-dimensional portrayals. An excellent voice cast (which includes a number of notable actors) and stylish character design help bring these people to life. As you listen to them talk (you remain mute throughout), read their journals, eavesdrop on conversations, and learn whispered secrets from an arcane, psychic item you acquire, you come to know the characters and the world they live in. This kind of knowledge is engaging, so even when the main plot follows some well-trodden paths, you're always interested and eager to press on.
Exploring Dunwall is another one of Dishonored's great pleasures. The city prospered from the whaling trade in the recent past, but has fallen on hard times since the influx of a deadly plague. Brick walls and wooden beams loom over alleys crawling with rats, while granite facades and metal barricades block off the cobblestoned plazas of the wealthier neighborhoods. Dunwall evokes a British city in the grip of the industrial revolution, but painterly coloring and slightly exaggerated proportions give the place a unique feel. The lovely artistic design shines on the PC, bursting with detail and making Dunwall an immensely appealing place to inhabit.
Of course, there are tangible benefits to exploration as well. Sewers, alleys, apartments, and estates all hide items that restore your health, reinforce your arsenal, teach you secrets, or allow you to gain new supernatural powers. The large areas you must traverse to get to your targets are riddled with out-of-the-way places to explore, and finding them reveals not only hidden goodies, but alternate routes as well.
Figuring out how to move through the environments is an enjoyable pursuit, and one of the first powers you get allows you to teleport a short distance. The quick pop and blurry whoosh of this power provides a nice audiovisual accompaniment to the thrill of defying natural law, and if you choose to supernaturally augment your jumping ability, your range of locomotion is drastically increased. Though you'll likely have some awkward moments as you try to go places that the game won't let you, Dishonored's level design is consistent enough to make such moments easy to avoid once you get the hang of things.
With his Apple IIGS as the spark and his neighbor's NES the fuel, Chris Watters' passion for gaming caught fire early. Years later, you can find him aiming down virtual sights, traipsing through fantastical lands, and striving to be grossly incandescent while desperately avoiding sunburns.
I haven't played the game yet but i think i will like it, i trust Arkane Studios, Arx Fatalis was great, everyone mentions Bethesda for this but Arkane Studios is the developer, not Bethesda. And i don't think that this game should be compared to Assasin's Creed in a negative way because Arx Fatalis inspired Dishonored, a game that was released years before Assassin's Creed. Maybe AC was inspired by Arx Fatalis, not the other way around.
In my opinion this is a great game and i loved it, not due the artistic design but also due the gameplay with that kinda bioshock atmosphere and the feeling this is just a first person assasins creed. Good thing that its another type of game instead of that cod and battlefield stuff thats in the stores were kids do their daily bitching and whining and yelling about someones mother or father. Everybody has their own opinion about this game but i certainly loved this amazing game.
Well, keep on buying Bethesda titles people and you will soon see frickin Obama mentioning their crappy titles on the Oprah show.
Could have mentioned that the combat is lame, that the rat`s behavior is totally unrealistic and that the inevitable 3D bonanza means you`re fighting the controls more than enjoying the game. I just quit in the sewers and read a book, and I have no desire to keep playing even the first play through.
I guess reviewers just think 3D realism is all you need for a game to be good. I don`t.
You give AC3 less than 9, and this game a 9? What's wrong with you people? If I had purchased this game because of that review, I would so sew you. You keep messing up in review guys, it's like the 10th time I write this.
I loved it right up until the point the weepers were introduced.. Exactly the reason I stopped playing the uncharted games... Who even enjoyed the zombies?
1 Like Dishonored Is An Incredible Game ....I Absolutely Loved The Different Pathways Through Which You Can Complete A Mission!!! Bethesda Truly Never Disappoints!!
well, just finished the game and it's good, but, not as much as you would expect from all the hype...to me it seemed like a weaker version of the Thief games, I missed more darkness and more sneaking (and I did a sneaking playthrough on Very Hard), but enjoyed the magic power...could have used more enemy variety, biggest maps or at least maps which are not divided ever 20 meters, was probably done so for loading purposes on the consoles, but still...
@Killer_73 Its nothing like Bioshock or Rage those were good games specially Bioshock. Dishonored was an overrated, overhyped and short game with bad gameplay.
8 Like Attention:
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The Goods (in addition to above)
- Using super natural powers is a blast.
- Lots of ways to complete a mission ( just like Dues Ex:Rev)
- Great replay value
The 'Bad's
- Story does not engage you and a bit linear/predictable.
- Enemy AI is really really weak.
- Throughout the game all the enemies are same (only two type of enemies, ones are the city guards and others are assassins.).
- There are no rewards for completing the mission without killing anyone or not being detected.
- Player has super natural powers and it feels a missing or lack of not having some sort of "Bosses" in the game.
2 Like Overrated game, but i prefer bioshock in terms of artistic design... the atmosphere is soooo dulll.... everytime i started the game i get bored after a minute... then i quit
@lyncer777 You can't compare this game to Bioshock. It was an average game with lost gameplay.
1 Like @lyncer777 it is meant to be dull.....what?you expect rainbow pony come out from the sky and nyan cats?
@szeping97 @lyncer777 dull/d?l/Adjective:Lacking interest or excitement. Verb:Make or become dull or less intense: "time dulls the memory"; "Albert's eyes dulled a little".
1 Like @lyncer777 I kind of like the atmosphere of Dishonored. It is supposed to be dull and gloomy in my opinion. Except for the last mission.
The only thing that frustrates me is the very short missions and the narrative ending. Plus, I don't feel the connection between Corvo and Emily. Probably because their backstory is not integrated with the main storyline, only on Books (that I never read) perhaps.
6 Like Just showing a different perspective here. I'm a little more than a casual gamer and, above all, I don't have that much time to play...2-3 hours a day, tops. I just started playing this game and I'm loving it. It was worth the investment. I'm having lots of fun and it really helps me forget all the stress we go through every day. I'm not so into huge games now, simply because I'm never able to finish them. It took me ages to finish Fallout 3 and I'm not sure how long it's going be before I finish Skyrim, so I really don't mind if Dishonored is shorter. If you don't have much time to play, just want to relax and feel Über Bad-ass, and above all also want a nice and immersing story.....just buy Dishonored.
1 Like Gotta say I agree with most of the comments... I've played about 10% of the game and almost immediately found it lacking - which was odd to me becauseI love the genre of gameplay, Betheseda as a whole, and premise behind the game. Then l looked at ratings and reviews gamespOt gave and was even more confused; I started to feel I should LOVE a game that I simply did not care for.
Playing on PC, gfx were dull (tried mods without success), gameplay seemed lax and easy, & story didn't grab me. Again, only played about 10% of the game so i could be wrong, will edit if my opinion changes but I'd have to get pretty bored to even chance that kind of update....
1 Like i think this game lives up 2 & loads more to wat i expected it.s best game i have played in years
4 Like Love the replay value of the game because of the variety of paths you can take to complete the game.
1 Like too short, too linear, too easy. but the pseudo-steam universe was interesting. although hardly developed.
1 Like @AlisterFlint Current generation console games can only adjust the triangle, so it sacrificed length and depth for everything else.
4 Like This game is ridiculously easy and boring. The stealth is completely optional and not half as fun/rewarding as just killing people. They also make it seem like you can kill or stealth and both are ok, but that's a lie, stealth is what gets you the good ending so that's what everyone ends up doing. Boring, easy, crap. Was this review paid off?
@spencerdawson Everybody has their own opninion. if you dont like it then play cod or something and yell at those kids their moms. I actually like the game and managed to do on the hardest difficult. If you just turn the diffucult up instead of playing on easy then u would see that the gameplay is harder than you think. Go play it again and this time not on easy mode noob.
2 Like I honestly don't trust any review from GS anymore unless it's from Kevin. I feel like he is there saying, "don't look at me, I'm not lying to them."
@marcio_castro More like action games for that matter. What he did to RE6 is a disgrace, especially considering he rates Warfighter higher, like WHAT? Are you stupid? That game doesn't deserve a 6. 5 is what it deserves for being criminally short, and he didn't point out that it's short either.
