Game Corner

by Austin Erwin

Hello Internet, and welcome to Game Corner, the only spot on the web fully dedicated to keeping the Haynes student body up-to-date on the latest game releases. For our first post, I decided to go with the game promising to be the newest Bethesda Company’s hit, Dishonored. Dishonored is a game which falls under many categories, and yet, at the same time, none at all. This is because of the game’s unprecedented level of open-endedness, which will allow players to choose the genre of game themselves. Throughout the beautiful steampunk city in Dishonored, players can tackle missions with guns, stealth, brute force, or even magic, all from a first-person perspective. This allows the game to use an blend of FPS, stealth, and combat-style actions, which are all available for nearly any situation in which you find yourself.

       The story of Dishonored takes place in a steampunk-inspired whaling village, ruled over by a benevolent empress and her legion of guards. You take the role of her most skilled bodyguard and trusted assassin, who returns from a successful mission to find his mistress dead and the guards in pursuit. Once captured, you await your sentence in prison, only to be visited by a mysterious, hooded figure who offers you freedom and a gift of power, coming in the form of the teleportation ability, Blink. Using this skill, you escape prison and return to your city, becoming an assassin of vengeance, known only by your calling card, a skull mask…

       Dishonored will be released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 9^th, so there is still time to preorder at your local Wal-Mart, Gamestop, or other gaming retailer, as this reporter has. However, as this game is rated “M” for mature, a parent will have to sign-off, if you are under seventeen. And speaking of signing off, that’s all from me, and remember, “It’s not the game, it’s how you play it”!