Dishonored

You can choose to play as a stealth master, a murdering hooligan, or a magic assassin. Or, you can mix it all together until you find your perfect blend. However you play, you'll be rewarded with an interesting story, solid gameplay, a clever art style, great characters, and more options than a Sunday buffet. Dishonored may be a new IP, but it's here to stay and a welcome addition as one of our absolute favorites of the year.

Dishonored probably could have done a little more with its narrative – but that shouldn’t detract from its otherwise incredible achievements. The ability to elect different play styles is not merely a bullet-point here; it’s the purpose of the entire game. And while you might not fall in love with the title immediately, allow Dunwall’s rat-infested suburbs to crawl beneath your skin, and you’ll eventually succumb to its charms like a plague.

Dishonored is an excellent game, and one worthy of your attention. Dishonored’s greatest contribution to the genre games like Deus Ex helped establish will be best appreciated by those who’ve been with it from the start, but Arkane has made a game rooted in manipulating artificial intelligence that plays just as well to the guy or gal who wants to shoot stuff. That’s impressive.

It's a rare game that feels so compulsively replayable, but Dishonored is such a game. The compelling abilities, the bold artistic design, the colorful characters, and above all, the freedom of choice--these are the things that mark Dishonored as one of the truly remarkable games of this year.

Dishonored may not do anything we’ve never before seen, but everything it does, it does extremely well. The massive amount of choice given to players keeps the game interesting through multiple replays, proving that multiplayer isn’t necessary to be a hit. In a year, and an industry, stricken with a plague known as “sequelitis”, Dishonored is the perfect cure, and should etch its name into every Game of the Year discussion with a sharply-tipped assassin blade.

Dishonored is refreshing, thoughtful, measured, and unique. It’s a reason for gamers to keep supporting developers that are willing to go out and try new things, to tell stories that haven’t been told a thousand times before, even if that is through unconventional mechanisms. We’ll mourn the day when single player games officially die, but when/if they do, it’s games like Dishonored we’ll miss the most.

Each mission is built as an elaborate network of choices for players to explore, and the same can be said for Corvo himself. Each player's selection of powers, perks and other upgrades will inform how they see and interact with this world, and no two play-throughs will be exactly the same. Dishonored is a game you'll talk with your friends about, and that you'll want to play multiple times. In this game there are always other paths to be taken and other challenges to conquer, and that's a refreshing thing indeed.

The team at Arkane Studios has injected an array of cool possibilities into the simulated city of Dunwall, and discovering them all is a blast. When you come face-to-face with the people who wronged you, your only dilemma is deciding which poetic method of elimination will produce coolest result.

Dishonored is a complex game, although there are only nine distinct missions, there’s a lot involved in each one of them. The ability to return to any mission you’ve already completed and play through it in numerous ways not only provides plenty of longevity, it also encourages you to experiment and learn the intricacies of the game. This is not a first person shooter and it’s not a stealth game: it’s both and neither all at once.

When reading that Dishonored has nine stages to work through it may sound ridiculously short, but there is so much depth to each area and there are so many side-missions, alternative routes, and general extras to uncover, that it lasts far longer than expected. It also proves to be a refreshing break from the standard FPS fare, proving to almost be like Metroid Prime in its adventure elements, fleshing the story out with hidden notes and extra characters that add more to the experience. With Dishonored, Bethesda and Arkane have definitely delivered one of the most engaging games on 2012.

Técnicamente no es sorprendente, aunque tiene momentos espectaculares y, sobre todo, un diseño artístico y de niveles que nos tiene enamorados. La banda sonora acompaña a la perfección, y el sensacional doblaje al castellano termina de redondear la experiencia. Una vez que entras en la ciudad de Dunwall lo haces con todas las consecuencias, la inmersión en su universo es total y ya no querrás jugar a nada que no esté tan bien diseñado.

Sorpresa mayúscula la que nos ha deparado este Dishonored. Durante su desarrollo parecía un juego muy prometedor, pero su nivel ha acabado siendo incluso más alto de lo que esperábamos. Es un título muy hardcore, y obviamente no es para todos los perfiles de aficionado, pero todo el que se acerque a él con paciencia y ganas de sumergirse en una experiencia fascinante encontrará en lo nuevo de Arkane un título inolvidable.

Dishonored ist ein ansehnliches Abenteuer, das flotte Stealth-Action vor wunderbaren viktorianischen Kulissen inszeniert. Das Artdesign gehört hinsichtlich Architektur und Mode zum Besten, was ich in den letzten Jahren gesehen habe. Hinzu kommt eine Lokalisierung, die endlich mal durchgehend mit markanten deutschen Sprechern überzeugt sowie ein offenes Spieldesign, das sowohl den martialischen als auch subtilen Weg ermöglicht - hier war im ersten Drittel noch der Award greifbar.

Avec Dishonored, Arkane reprend le flambeau de références passées, à commencer par Thief et ose ce que peu d'autres titres osent : laisser le joueur se dépatouiller avec ce qu'il a et sortir des chemins tout tracés. S'ils existent malgré tout dans Dishonored, on peut les ignorer et "maltraiter" l'architecture, ne pas faire ce qu'on attend de nous pour jouer les équilibristes sur un fil à linge et se raccrocher à une corniche improbable.

Nerveux et impitoyable si on le parcourt à la manière d'un jeu d'action, Dishonored se fait subtil et délicat quand on choisit la délicieuse voie de l'infiltration. Dans les deux cas, le joueur ressort ravi de l'aventure. Voire grandi, si ses horizons vidéoludiques se limitaient jusqu'alors aux jeux les plus communs.