The game’s plot is fine, but ultimately forgettable. As Corvo or Emily, you’ll flee to the vaguely Mediterranean city of Karnaca to investigate and dismantle the organization that deposed your family’s empire. The two characters have different powers, but the story will play out the same way, more or less, regardless. Whomever you choose, your counterpart is essentially frozen in carbonite from that point onward. The main story is fine, but forgettable–a rote tale of evil rising up and good beating it back. Corvo’s perspective makes for a much more literal retread of the first game as he overthrows the conspirators, restores his honor and rescues his daughter. That the player automatically starts from her perspective in the game’s opening moments suggests that the developers feel this way as well. You can choose to play as Emily herself, reclaiming her throne, or step back into the shoes of Dishonored protagonist Corvo Attano, Emily’s father and the Royal Protector.įrom a narrative standpoint, the game makes far more sense as Emily’s story of loss and redemption. Selfish and terrible aristocrats have launched a coup against the imperial throne of Dunwall (a steampunk London analog), now occupied by the young Emily Kaldwin, whose mother, Empress Jessamine Kaldwin, was assassinated at the beginning of the first game.
In broad strokes, the plot of Dishonored 2 is virtually indistinguishable from its predecessor. Although it doesn’t raise the stakes in any surprising ways, Dishonored 2 handily matches its predecessor, providing more of the excellent gameplay that we loved so much in 2012. Taken it as a given that Arkane would follow up with a sequel, Dishonored 2 arrives with years of high expectations. A first-person action/stealth title in the tradition of Thief, many compared it to BioShock (also in the lineage of Looking Glass Studio’s PC games), similarly setting a high bar for combining tight gameplay design and exquisite world-building. Fitbit Versa 3ĭishonored was a revelation when it came out in 2012.
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