Dishonored Review

Have you ever wanted to go on a killing spree as a master assassin, blasting onto the scene without a care in the world and fighting 6 men at once with relative ease before bringing down your target? Well good news! Assassins Creed III just came out. However, if you wanted to be imbued with mystical powers and creative weaponry and tech that lets you "take care" of your target in extremely creative fashion, Dishonored is the game for you.

Fuck you Pendleton

In Dishonored, you take the role of Corvo, former bodyguard of the empress who is on a quest for vengeance.  After being framed for the empresses murder and the kidnapping of her daughter by an evil spymaster turned lord regent. You must turn to the life of an assassin and slowly cripple the lord regents corrupt political reign by assassinating his colleagues with the help of powers given to you by  a god-like Samaritan who is conveniently helping both sides so that he may be "entertained".

The missions in Dishonored are absolutely brilliant and extremely well thought out. For each mission, there are an infinite number of ways to complete them, and the way you complete each mission has a significant effect on the outcome of the game. One of the main aspects the game focuses on is that there are always multiple pathways you can use to evade detection and get the job done. You can travel by rooftop and make your way through abandoned buildings, or traverse through underground sewers filled with rats and plague victims that have a bad habit of trying to vomit all over you.

Stop Vomiting on my Face!

 For example, in one mission you have to infiltrate a party and eliminate one of three sisters that is supporting the lord regent. However, you don't know which sister is the one supporting him and they all happen to be wearing the same exact costume with the exception of the costumes color. Getting into the party is easy, finding out which sister to kill is hard. However, once you get to this point of the mission you have alot of choices on what you can do to complete the mission. You can take your time and look around to find out which one you have to kill, or you can just kill all of them and get on your merry way. I learned that the white one was the one I had to eliminate and I saw her heading towards the bathroom so I froze time, entered the bathroom and placed a trap in the toilet. Then I put the toilet lid down, closed the door and left. You can imagine what happened next.

Death by toilet

Depending on how you complete each mission, and the side quests will change how you a greeted when you return from a successful mission. After this mission, I found a mysterious note and gift on my bedside from one of the sisters I didn't kill thanking me for not brutally murdering everyone at the party and sparing her family.
  

 Where the game excels over all others however is when it comes down to the weaponry and magical powers you receive. The weapons and powers you recieve allow for an infinite amount of ways to brutally murder your enemies when combined together. Is an enemy firing a gun at you? Simply stop time, possess the enemy, and then walk him in front of the bullet he shot so that he shoots himself. Want to kill some guards without raising suspicion? Summon a swarm of rats and place a trap on one of their backs, then possess it and skitter over to the guards making the trap go off and killing them, then watch the rest of the rats devour their corpses. The possibilities are endless and the results are gruesome and hilarious.

Going on killing sprees has adverse effects too, the more people you kill, the more rats and plague victims there are. However, you can also go through the game without killing anyone! Wait what? WHY? WHY WOULD I WANT TO DO THAT?!?!? IM HERE TO DO SOME MURDERIN'!!!!

But yes, you can actually go through the game without killing anyone, including your targets, in order to get a "good ending" In fact, the last mission of the game plays out completely differently depending  on whether or not you had "low chaos" or "high chaos" However, if you get into the game and read all the notes and recordings each target has lying around, you will want to go Bruce Lee on their asses when you learn how big of a douche-bag they are. Also, lets face it, the best part of the game is killing everything so why the hell would you go out of your way to NOT kill everything. It's not real folks, its a game, if you want to see the good ending there is always youtube.

The only downfall to this game is that it occasionally has iffy graphics. Sometimes the animation and voices dont match, all the guards look exactly the same and for some reason everyones hands are FREAKING GIGANTIC.

Small ass head, big ass hands

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Score:

Story: 9 (Nothing new or exciting, the twists are very predictable, but the story is well thought out and the world and characters have alot of depth)

Graphics: 7.5 (The below average graphics and sometimes lacking environment are not up to par, and Granny Rags is fucking ugly as hell.)

Gameplay: 10 (Despite a somewhat steep learning curve, the fighting mechanics are flawless and the powers and equipment allow for one of the best stealth game experiences you can ask for.)

Replayability: 9.5 (As long as the story doesnt get old, you can do each mission again and again and still get something new out of it.)

Overall: 9.5 out of 10 (Freakin' Awesome)

The gameplay is as good as it gets, the characters are deep and the missions are never repetitive but the sub-par graphics and animation keep this game from getting a perfect 10.