On the island of gristol, a rat sickness plagues the city Dunwall. The empress sends her royal protector to search the empire for answers. When the protector, known as Corvo returns, the empress is assassinated and her daughter kidnapped. Corvo is framed and sentenced to prison. It is now up to Corvo to escape prison, clear his name, and put the rightful heir to the throne. In the plague ridden land of Gristol, Empress Kaldwin is left dead by a hired assassin, and her daughter kidnapped. Though an assassin did the dirty work, to the non witnessed it was her protector, Corvo Attano. Corvo is left to rot in prison only to escape with the help of revolutionaries and a god known as the Outsider. It is up to him to rescue the Empress's daughter and kill her conspirators, leaving a glorious new empire for the princess or a rugged hell hole dependent upon his choices. While this necessarily isn't a bad game, however, due to its trial and error game play, uninteresting narrative, and short length, I can only recommend this as a rental game, and not a buy.<br/><br/>The story is, you're an assassin, who is assigned to meet with the empress of a steam punk and gloomy city. However, upon your arrival, you are assaulted by an unknown adversary, and, during the attack, the empress is murdered and you are then vilified and accused of her murder by the authorities. Soon after, you are thrown in jail, an after you receive a mysterious package while in prison, you escape and you must uncover who framed you for the murder of the empress and set out for vengeance.<br/><br/>As admittedly and undeniably interesting as this generally sounds, unfortunately, this is as compelling as the narrative gets. The characters are honestly very bland and mundane, even though normally the voice acting is convincing and reasonably well done.<br/><br/>The game play also isn't really much better. While the combat is visceral and bloody(while its also quite simplistic and unchallenging, All that is required during combat is simply remaining blocked until an enemy attacks you and leaves you the opportunity to deliver a fatal counter attack) The stealth game play is marginally superior by comparison, even though it becomes tired and monotonous very quickly. You receive a lot of remarkably imaginative super natural abilities like the power to leap around areas( which, is at first, is effective for evading and avoiding present enemies) but, as the game goes on, the levels become more dreary and dull looking and it becomes increasingly taxing to move through.<br/><br/>Graphically the game is quite stunning, and initially the world looks across between Half life and bioshock, but this game has almost none of the immersion or the complexity of those two games. Its also very reminiscent of Deus Ex, but its without the staggering and extraordinary freedom that game had to offer, and that was an infinitely better game this.<br/><br/>My biggest gripe with the game is also its mission structure. For a game of this size, its practically criminal that that it doesn't have any extra side missions or quests to tend to, and there is the option to actually not harm anyone in the game or neutralize any of your targets( but seriously, what is the point of that when the sole reason you bought this game to begin with was to kill people?) but, the game at least doesn't penalize you or punish you as much as Deus ex did for doing so, but, it drastically affects the ending you receive if you do ever take down anyone.<br/><br/>I'm positive, deep down, Dishonored could have been a wonderful video game, it could have been so much better, if more effort went into its storytelling and its game play, but, as it stands, its merely a mediocre game with interesting concepts. Had it been executed in role playing game style, this could have possessed more appeal. I'd even go so far as to say it even feels rushed. And, its not nearly as grand or even as masterful as most critics would lead you to believe. Dishonored is a solid and satisfying game. The game play is absolutely brilliant and the environment is awesome. This game is a testament to the faith of hardcore gamers waiting for a game that will never disappoint.<br/><br/>Dishonored tells the story of Corvo, the Lord Protector of the Empress of a huge plague ridden empire and her daughter. When the Empress is murdered and her daughter abducted, Corvo is framed for her murder. Now he must fight, with the help of his new found allies, against the very men who framed him and with deadly stealth, prevent them from taking over the empire.<br/><br/>So everything in this game was great although I think it would have been better if it was a third person game like Assassin's Creed or Prince of Persia. However that is only my view. Finally, the guards seem to be everywhere and the problem with that is if you're trying to sneak past one guard the odds are that you will be spotted by another guard who suddenly appears behind him. It seems trivial but trust me it can be f***ing frustrating at times.<br/><br/>So to wrap up this is a game well worth buying as it has a fulfilling story and shows that video games will soon overtake Hollywood movies completely.
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