Bethesda had us fooled. Here we were yesterday, our hope sprung eternal that an Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim trailer was headed our way, after the developer teased an image of what looked to be a Nord (and perhaps his Thalmor captor) and a sure foreshadowing of upcoming Skyrim DLC. In search of Dawnguard, we let down our guard, and now we’re sprawled on floor. Picking up our jaws.
As it turns out, our suspected Nord is actually Corvo, the protagonist of Dishonored — the steampunk stealth action game from Bethesda and developer Arkane Studios that captured our attention when it was announced last July. Other than the possible prison-cell homage, its industrialized setting bears little resemblance to Bethesda’s sprawling mountainous provinces in The Elder Scrolls (or its nuclear dustbowls in Fallout, for that matter) and it sets the stage for a breathtaking debut trailer.
Clocking in at over four minutes, the computer generated Dishonored debut trailer has plenty of time to show off the unique gameplay elements at players’ disposals over the course of its singleplayer campaign. Take a look:
Dishonored is a lot of things on the surface, but it’s a revenge tale at heart. As Corvo, players assume the role of a former legend — one of the Empress’ finest bodyguards — who has since been framed for her assassination by the power hungry Lord Regent and thrown into prison with the rats. Here, we see how he’s set free (or sets himself free) thanks to a shadowy character that bestows him with his “mark” — most likely the source of his supernatural dark powers. Only now can Corvo embark on a quest for vengeance and overthrow the oppressive government in the city of Dunwall.
As a huge emphasis is put into letting players manipulate the world around them in Dishonored — letting them slow time with magic or possess a swarm of rats to distract an enemy — Bethesda has mentioned that the story can be completed without killing a single soul. With the first-person gameplay alluded to in the trailer, though, good luck convincing a Buddhist monk to not take advantage of the luscious lethalities at their disposal. Sure, Corvo can be seen darting across rooftops, sneaking past guards or avoiding their gaze as he approaches the mansion of a compassionless noble/industrial baron. Once in position, however, everything from stealth assassination, throat-slashing swordplay, time-warping bullet dodging, wrist-mounted crossbow firing, and casting powerful spells to break windows and doors is on full display.
In addition to the combat system, there’s plenty left to pour over in the trailer regarding the bipedal enemy mechs, the murderous reign of oppression on the poor by the presiding government, and the scheming faction that appears to have our backs — for now. How does it all factor in to the bigger picture: the city of Dunwall and the Pandyssian Continent? Those questions will hopefully be answered soon by Bethesda, but until then, the trailer will likely stand as the watermark for Dishonored’s compelling vision.
Ranters, what are your thoughts after viewing Dishonored’s four-minute cinematic? How do you plan on approaching combat in the game when you don Corvo’s infamous mask?
Dishonored is still projected to release later this year for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.
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Looks amazing. I like the dystopian setting and the steampunk concept of Dishonored. Story is interesting and it’s a very refreshing idea. I can’t wait to sneak around and sow fear and confusion in that evil regime.
But it’s still just a cgi-trailer with no in-game footage, which is nothing special. I like to err on the side of caution, since a trailer can be deceptive and is often used as a marketing ploy for inferior products. I have no reason to think this will be the case for Dishonored, but until I see some gameplay footage, I remain skeptical.
I also hope they stay clear of too many crappy hollywood-clichés and a disappointing ending (We’ve had enough of that). Hopefully they sat down and had a “let’s not…”-meeting before development began.
AC ripoff. They better TRY to ATLEAST get DECENT graphics/animations in their game this time. If it’s AC gameplay with First Person, then I’m down for it as I wanted that option to do that for a while in AC, but if it’s not and they mess this up..>..< This just got on my nerve…the context of the game is intriguing, yes, but still this annoyed me very much. -_-
So just because its a game about an assassin its automatically a rip off of Assassin’s Creed? That’s very close minded seeing as how AC takes its cues from numerous of other games that came before it. Ideas do not spring from nothing, they are from inspirations and those inspirations are from the things that inspire us. I think you should judge a game when you play it and decide then if its a AC rip off not just because you see a guy running on rooftops and assassinating people.
Mind you, running on roof tops and assassinating people is what I do in AC. I saw this trailer to see what they were presenting us, midway I was having doubts if I was actually watching a CG trailer for that exclusive Wii-U AC game Ubisoft was talking about LOOOL And uhh yeh..they took their inspiration from free running in open world from what game..? And the assassin’s wearing hoodies from what game..? like I understand that OBVIOUSLY games take ideas from other games and put their own twist on them, but DAYUMM Running on Rooftops, assassinating people, while being clad in a hoodie? First thing that comes to anyone’s mind is AC. Like LOL atleast make the guy wear some sort of hat or something, anything but a hoodie cause that’d just complete the basic image of AC. xD And this was all my first impression just by that given trailer. Why you so mad?
The thing this makes me think of is thief. I have only played it for about 4 hours but I still thought it resembled thief with interesting magic far more than the AC franchise, which I have finished apart from Revelations. With perhaps some bioshock in there.
For me AC stood out the most, but yes aside from the AC scenes, with the running on rooftops, assassinating dudes, and then the hoodie also, it did have the dark theme of Thief, and the power scenes did also resemble Bioshock too.
“AC ripoff.”? You are aware that assassin’s creed was not the first, nor the best, game with an assassination mechanic? Tenchu, Splinter Cell, The Thief trilogy (for you PC gamers out there), and oh so many others.
Fanboys. ‘Nuff said.
Bro, I know my way around PC gaming, tyvm, and have had my dose of the Thief series and have had a full share of the Splinter Cell series which I rank as the best stealth game(FOR ME incase u’ll rage about that too). Assassin’s Creed may not be the first game to feature assassinating/killing people, but it DEFINITELY was the first, best, and foremost popular game which featured Running on rooftops Assassinating people while wearing a Hoodie, and it’s the best at it too. Now this game comes, it has the dude running on rooftops, assassinating people, AND wearing a god damn frigging hoodie! Like DUUUDE!! Atleast change your outfit man. XDD
Read my post at the bottom of all this.
this has less stupid ‘parkour’ more variety towards how you approach a mission/assassination and looks alot better then AC (though not as pretty).
you can’t judge a game before you play it or even see gameplay of it so why hate on something that has only recently been publicly announced ?
i wont be getting this though b/c i dont support bethesda or anything they publish, regardless of how good something they make or publish looks.
P.S there was a 9 page article about this game in game informer, that’s how i know there is variety in gameplay and that this will be different and possibly more fun then AC.
You call Parkour stupid and you make it look like you don’t have a variety of ways to kill a target in AC..err assassinating, bombs, punching and kicking the hell out of them, shooting them, crossbows, poisoning them, sending others to do it for you…yeah definitely not a variety of ways to take out someone.
Game LOOKS a lot better than AC…? This is the CGI trailer, and mind you Assassin’s Creed Revelation’s CGI trailer looked just as good as this. I seriously don’t see how you can compare this CGI trailer to AC ingame graphics..specially Assassin’s Creed 3 now.
I can’t judge the game by the content they have released so far? Friend, you just said judged this game as better looking than AC. o_o
I would support Bathesda if they spent time polishing their game even a little and maybe having decent graphics/animations for the hardware available in this day and age. This is their chance, they can’t seriously mess this up.
I was not aware of the article at all, I’m just giving my first impression of the game from the trailer I have just seen which this article said gives you a basic idea of how the game plays out. Running on rooftops, assassinating people, wearing a hoodie…right, there was NO WAY AC wouldn’t be ringing in anyone’s ears. -_-
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LOL coming from the guy with an AC pic as their avatar. You’re obviously a fanboy thats just trying to rag on a game that doesn’t even have gameplay footage yet because of a similar objective. Actually you can choose not to kill or if you do, there is a bunch of ways to do it. Not just a blade. Most of all what we know now is still nothing compared to AC except for the assasination factor. I never saw Ezio turn into a swarm of rats or stop time. And to top it all off, it is in first person and in an industrialized enviornment.
I can put anything as my avatar, and if I think AC is my favourite game series I’ve had yet, alongside my other beloved games which you’ll no doubt think I have not played/hate just cause I have AC as my avatar, I will still put AC as my avatar. Don’t get mad that I had 20 seconds to setup an avatar while you didn’t bother. o_o
I judged by what I saw in the trailer and how I read that it’s supposed to give us a basic representation of how the game plays out. And well..running on rooftops assassinating people while wearing a hoodie could seriously in NO WAY be the icon of another somewhat prestigious game series out right now.
You can choose not to kill eh? Maybe you haven’t played any AC game recently, cause from what I remember from an hour ago, I had several missions in which I could just get my mission done without killing anyway, or even injuring people.
“Not just by a blade”…yeh ok..cause apparantly in AC games we can’t kill people with bombs, poison, swords, gun, throwing knives, thrown spears/axes, crossbow, punching the hell out of them, throwing them into breakable objects or off high ledges or drowning them either, or just calling your recruits or paid fractions to finish the target. We can only use a blade to kill people in the AC series..yehh ok bro, you also seem to know a lot about AC..
Yeh..it has slowing down time or turning into rats in this game, but it totally does not have the most iconic elements of the AC games such as running on rooftops, assassinating people, all while wearing a hoodie. OK.
And if you read my comment, I said I was really glad that this one is in First Person, that is very welcoming since if it wasn’t, then it’d just be even less of a difference from the AC series. Industrialized environment…I don’t even..uhh so your saying none of the AC games were industrialized.
Nice argument.
@ Spider-Abu The trailer wasn’t even of gameplay. Just because he happend to be on a roof because he escaped from prison doesn’t mean anything. Its just a hype trailer. In AC you cannot play the whole game without killing anyone because you don’t have that option but in this you do. Btw over half of those wepons are blades. And. Him wearing the hood has nothing to do with anything because it doesn’t even hide his face but what does hide his face is the mask which Ezio doent wear. And do you even know what industrialized means? Doubt it. THIS TRAIL FEATURES NO GAMEPLAY.
Hey, “debut trailer has plenty of time to show off the unique gameplay elements”, those are the gameplay elements that stood out very much for me, running on rooftops and assassinating people while wearing a hoodie.
This game might let you take “revenge” by not killing anybody, but that’s not what I saw in the trailer which was to show the gameplay elements. Plus AC has assassin in the name, obviously u’ll kill people, while doing the parkour and wearing a hoodie…which is what I saw here.
I listed like 10 ways to kill a target, beside hidden blades, and like 3-4 of them included blades. o_o
Yes the hoodie has to do with it, because of the resemblance, and even just the bottom of the outfit too-with the flailing cloth just like the clothes from AC-and they cover their face with the hoodie, and not to mention you do where disguises to cover your face and even go around with masks in missions or just wear them as an outfit whenever you want, especially on Ezio.
Industrialized? A place with an industry, such as big governed areas, restricted spots, turists, and shops and the industries which make much of the goods for the area. I see these places in all the AC games, and most of your goals are to stop these industries from their corruption, specially on the people, which is what you also see in this trailer. ^^ Or maybe google is lying to me and there is some other definition for it, in which case I could be wrong.
This trailer is supposed to show the elements of gameplay to expect from the game, again, free running on rooftops and assassinating people while wearing a hoodie. These elements stood out and I pointed them out.
Keep trying bro, your just making me laugh even harder than your first comment. xDDD
Read my post at the bottom of all this…
dude you are really making ac fans look like fools, why the hell didn’t you stop when you first failed.
Hey, when I have spare time and am bored, I like to go on sites like these and checkup on the news and then in the comments write my opinion on it. It’s just when others get mad and have a problem with it, I don’t just sit there and leave em. They caught me on a pretty boring day to start proving me wrong or something, as if the stuff I pointed out TOTALLY did not exist and TOTALLY do not represent another “game series”. If you are not going to join in and point out some more facts to make me reply to, don’t be a fool and just leave the discussion. ^^ Because they joined in to my comment, I felt like replying back. Even worse is that these people think I totally hated the trailer, which I did not say at all, I just pointed out those few stuff that annoyed me.
If commenting whatever is on my mind in the comments section means I’m a fool, then you’re a fool for writing that in the first place ^^
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dude your getting all bent out of shape FOR NOTHING did you not see everything that he did that ezio or altier could NOT do OMG HE CLIMED A WALL ITS JUST LIKE ASSASSINS CREED. He stopped time and dashed like 15 feet out a window it also looks like he has telekinesis. And not to mention its industrial thing is futuristic.
THANK YOU
Did I not just say I was pointing out to just a few specific parts which annoyed me? If I was going to talk about all the other cool stuff in it, I would’ve, but I just chose to point out what annoyed me and apparantly that comment unleashed all hell upon all commentors in here and they decided they wanted to argue or change my little impression. I never said the game looked bad, no not at all, I just pointed out what bugged me. And these people have problem with my opinion..lol And since it’s the internet, anybody can post w/e they want basically, and since I had nothing better to do at the time, I decided to reply back to all of them stating my points. Y u ppl so mad?
btw industrialized – futuristic?? what does that have to do with my original comment at all. I still stand with my point that I saw a hooded dude running on rooftops with almost like the same waving bottom-of-the-coat like the outfits in AC, assassinating people. I did not say I didn’t see the other stuff, just cause I didn’t mention them, did not mean I saw them. I wrote my little comment about what got at me, that’s all. Good day to you.
no see i think that your a fool for saying that you think that this game is an ac rip off because he can climb a wall or jump down off a ledge and stab some one in the head you can also do that in farcry3 so does that make it a ac rip off to
Since you brought up Far Cry, one of my classmates, after watching that farcry trailer, was like wth this reminds me of AC! and then after he said it’s also much like Uncharted. Funnier part is he’s a diehard Uncharted/Hitman fan, and he pointed out AC first.
Anyway stop calling me a fool when you’re clearly making yourself look like a fool by replying to me even though you think me a fool. Fool.
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I definitely see a whole lot more Bioshock than Assassin’s Creed… But that’s just my opinion.
Whirlwind sprint at 3:45 lol
what does your classmate have any thing to do with don’t change the subject just because you cant come up with a better reasoning for your ignorance. oh and one more thing so if im a fool for replying then that makes you one too
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If this game reminds me of anything it’s mirrors edge, not AC, but I don’t think they’re ripping it off because it is clearly it’s own game with a unique sensibility and I am not a troll
Agreed. Just imagine Mirror’s Edge with weapons with a Steampunk environment. Add a little TimeShift voodoo mixed in along with Skyrim scaled world and continuously shifting world.
dude if this is a rip off of assassins creed then assassins creed is a rip off of prince of persia
@ Spider-Abu what opinion did you tell? You blatantly said that it was an AC rip-off. That is a statement not an opinion. Saying a guy running on a roof with a hood is copying AC doesn’t even make sense. I mean Batman: Arkam City runs aroung on roofs with a mask, Infamous you run around on a roof killing people so I suppose they all copief AC then? That’s ridiculous. You’re being ridiculous. Yes it is an industrialized-futuristic enviornment too.
thank you thats what i said oh lets not for get about prototype 1 he wheres a hood as well
Read my post at the bottom of all this………btw I made the quirk on prototype too ^^
All i can say that it looks great (CGI).
Hopefully it will be in a first person perspective and actual action in buildings unlike sand-box roamers such as Prototype and Assassin’s Creed.
Hopefully, it would be Splinter Cell but with a world as big as Skyrim.
@Spider-Abu: Just stop buddy, the only appearance i can imagine for you is a whiney little twat.
And since i fixed my old TV antenna on the room when i was 15, i suppose i’m an assassin as well.
We’re Gamers, enjoy Games and please don’t make arguments between games.
All you do is make a large turd-tornado on the internet.
*roof. Derp.
Read my post at the bottom of all this….sry to make u think like that, got carried away with rush of comments.
lol kay kay, I give up lol. Seems like I have really disturbed the peace among u ppl…I get carried away sometimes…
I am still standing with my little quirk there, but as I pointed it out, I did not write more about the rest of the trailer.
It looks like AC meets Mirror’s Edge with Bioshock elements. I just don’t want it to have the crappy graphics and animations again. I heard Bathesda is just the publisher or something? But the stuff they have published were like that, and I hope that it’d look better than previous AC or even Mirror’s Edge atleast.
Really? Because to me it looks like Dishonored.
Hey, what if I tell you I’m anticipating the title greatly and forgot to write it up there ^, would that lay you off a bit? Look I just calmed down to my senses, don’t get me started again please.
Lol, I didn’t even think assassins creed when I watched this. Ain’t even a rip off, stupid twats