What a fantastic game, the level design is just brilliant, mixing stealth and all out mayhem with your supernatural powers. Graphically stunning with great background music. For the missions you can choose between Emily Kaldwin or Corvo Attano and each has different powers and weapons that make the levels replayable. This time round instead of a grimey Dunwall the action is on a beautiful island called Karnaca, 15 years on from the first game and where Corvo hails from. 40GB game with a 9GB v1.01 update file to install and you get the Imperial Assassins Pack DLC.
Corvo has his usual powers of blink for teleporting round short distances, dark vision for spotting enemies through walls, consuming swarm for attacking enemies with rats (my favourite) and possession. Emily has amazing new powers like Far Reach and Domino where she can select multiple targets and dispatch them with the same attack, Shadow Walk which looks like something from Prey, where she becomes a nebulous shadow hound, just looks awesome. The movement is fluid with no lag even when attacking several enemies. For upgrading your character its the usual business of equipping the heart for finding hidden runes and bone charms which unlock your upgrades and powers, the game doesn't reward you for killing enemies directly like in Skyrim for example.
The incidental detail is fantastic, the way mechanical clocks spin round to chunky safes and the posters you can read to dust motes spiralling through the air. Characters like the tattooed woman in Karnaca by the black market you can zoom in with your spyglass and read the wording! Blood fly nests can be set aflame using flammable bottles or incendiary bolts and the crossbow is ace, upgrades to it look great unlike the puny crossbow in Witcher 3 which I found underwhelming. Blue prints are scattered throughout levels and taken to a black market vendor can be used for the upgrades.
Lovely humour in the clockwork mansion mission where you overhear some burglars discussing how to break into the black market shop, buy everything you want, then return by blowing a hole in the rear wall and steal the rest. Anton Sokolov makes an early return from Dishonored in the initial missions where you are tasked with killing Kirin Jindosh, the mad creator of the clockwork mansion. Robots can be rewired to attack your enemies which is very cool. As usual Arkane Studios have done a fantastic job with their intricate level design, and its worth exploring thoroughly to pick up goodies.
Just an amazing game, mixes stealth and full on assault brilliantly in awesome unique levels, lots of violence and dismemberment though so not suitable for young children, Arkane Studios have improved on Dishonored. The 7th mission Crack in the Slab is AMAZING, just mind blowing time travelling, so far the mansion is tri-state! Clockwork Mansion + Crack in the Slab = GOTY.
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A couple of hours in and so far I am fairly impressed with what I have seen. Like it's predecessor it has a certain clunkiness to it, especially noticeable after coming off the liquid smooth Titanfall 2 campaign, but nothing too bad. The repetitious dialogue from NPCs is back, so if you miss constantly hearing about the soldiers wondering whether they should gather for whisky and cigars tonight, then you're in luck :) The game has a 9GB day one patch, but that didn't stop a few issues of textures popping, light bleeding through internal spaces and the odd soldier being stuck in a staircase....which annoyingly meant I couldn't choke out everyone on the first level. Despite all this, I am enjoying what I have played so far. The ability to quick save/load, is a nice addition, especially for those of us going for ghost/low chaos runs*. Also, the option to play as either Corvo or Emily gives the game some extra re-playability, as both have different skillsets and abilities. On this run I am playing through as Emily and, no spoilers, her abilities are pretty sweet. In summary, if you liked DS1, you'll love DS2. You don't need to have played DS1 to be able to play DS2. There is plenty of lore scattered about to build up what happened previously, and who everyone is. Edit: I had to return my copy of the game as it kept crashing at a certain point. Not sure if it's an issue with the disc or the game (maybe a corrupted save). On the whole, and I know our PC brothers are having issues, this game is pretty glitchy. I had several game crashing events before I kept hitting the game breaking moment. I assume Bethesda forced Arkane to release before they were ready, if not then Arkane need to up their QA game. I still maintain this is a fantastic game, and given how things end up (finished the game on Xbox), I would welcome a third instalment. Just stop people being able to see me through walls, and that would be fantastic. p.s Amazon are terrible with pre-orders it seems. First time I have used them, and they missed the 10th. *Although the stealth system sometimes is a bit weird, for example check the pic and tell me why I didn't get full stealth on the little graph?
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ZampironeReviewed in Italy on 19 November 2017
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