Despite being a new IP, Dishonored plays and feels like several games that have come before it. It’s rare that a game review requires a preface, but in Dishonored‘s case it’s important so as to not repeat the same qualification over and over again. The game’s developer, Arkane Studios, shares a long history with the BioShock, Deus Ex, and Half-Life franchises, and by extension borrows liberally from those games’ lead.
By no means does Dishonored “rip off” any of these games whole cloth, nor is it a copy/paste job, but describing the game’s mechanics, its story, and even its aesthetics will call to mind those titles. Elements like the ability to assign powers and weapons to both the right and left hand, a dystopian city ravaged by a plague and controlled by a corrupt ...
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