Developer: Arkane Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Platform: Ps3, Xbox360, PC
Release date: 10/2012
Genre: Action-adventure, stealth, action role-playing
The player controls Corvo Atano, a former legendary bodyguard to the Empress who is not only a fine swordsman and marksman, master-at-arms, and cunning infiltrator, but also possesses great supernatural power
Corvo seeks vengeance against Lord Regent, who framed him for the Empress assassination when she died in Corvo's arms. The game is not presented in open world format, but instead in a series of linear missions. The player can roam The Isles as well as the distant Pandyssian Continent, though the primary setting for the game is the steampunk-esque city of Dunwall. Corvo Atano is voiced by Josh Holloway.
Also, part of the game involves an entity referred to as "The Outsider", voiced by Billy Lush. The ambiguous being is described as part angel and part devil, and it is supposedly responsible for all magic in the world. Its motives and nature are shrouded in mystery.
The protagonist, Corvo, made contact with the being whilst imprisoned; the Outsider offered him the chance to exact vengeance on the people who framed him by giving Corvo its mark, gifting the disgraced bodyguard with magical powers. According to lead designers Raf Colantonio and Harvey Smith, the Outsider walks among the mortals of Dishonored's world.
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