Dishonored Review (PC, Xbox 360)
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Another thing you have to pay attention to is your mana. It is necessary to use powers, and only partially regenerates after use. You have to use potions to get your mana back up to full, so be careful about using mana-intensive powers. Some of them can really drain you, then you are stuck with whatever weapons you have if you get in a bind. Just a side note, weapons are going to be used in your right hand and powers are assigned to your left. Although you can dual wield a gun or crossbow and a sword with no powers assigned.
Missions were a little tricky in this game. It’s not like a lot of those stealth games from yesteryear where you are detected and then you hide and they stop looking for you. If you are detected in this game, the panic spreads through the guards faster than the plague that is ripping through the city. Then they feed off each other, so the alert status of the guards never dies down. Once you are detected, you better start killing or the whole place will know you are there and will be looking for you. I found out the hard way.
Now, the politicians in this game are a lot like the ones in the real world. Always looking for a way to screw someone over. They use the plague as an excuse to take anyone they want away from their home and family and put them in a shallow grave. Or no grave at all. So don’t feel bad about ripping them a new one when the time comes to kill. Although there are options for worse punishments than death in some cases. And they are fun. But I won’t spoil the game for you. You’ll figure those out when you get to them.
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There's some weird control differences between the PC version and the Xbox 360 version. For 360, spells are left bumper and sword is right bumper (matches what's on the screen). It's reversed by default on the PC, so sword is left mouse, and spells is right mouse. Very confusing.
That was a good thorough review. Overall it sounds like a great game, although I’m still not convinced enough to buy it. Mainly because past experiences (like Deus Ex: Human Revolution) have left me a bit skeptical of some games’ value, especially when I see a lower Longevity rating. So nowadays I follow some advice I got from one of my coworkers at DISH: I don’t buy a game until AFTER I’ve rented it and had a chance to thoroughly play it. It’s saved me a lot of money just in the past six months or so. So with that in mind, Dishonored is already in my Blockbuster @Home queue, so I’ll get to play it soon; it might not be as fast as if I ran to Gamestop and bought it, but that’s alright, I’m still working on Borderlands 2.
I have to agree with you there. I usually rent games before I buy them too. I tend to play the game through, send it back to wherever I rent it, then add it to my collection later on when the price drops. The few exceptions have been games like Left 4 Dead, Bioshock, and Gears Of War. But like you, I’ve had too many experiences with bad games to just buy one outright without test driving it first.