So this looks really great to me. Victorian steampunk. Stealth, combat, and magic. It’s a first-person melee game for the most part, and if it were being developed by the same team behind Elder Scrolls that might make me nervous – after all, I’ve never been overly fond of the combat mechanics in the Elder Scrolls games.
But Bethesda is only the publisher behind the game. Arkane Studios is developing the title, and they have veterans of Deus Ex, Thief, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, and Half-Life 2 working on Dishonored, which makes me more excited than ever.
The gameplay looks as bloody as you’d expect. It’s hard to get a great feel for actual mechanics even from a gameplay trailer. But between daggers, guns, and powers like teleport and possession, this should be a neat new IP. The new IP piece of the puzzle is also key to my growing anticipation.
Hopefully all this hype pans out and we get a unique, highly playable game when it does release this October on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
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