![]() ![]() ![]() To find him, she (or rather you) will need to journey into the city’s seedy underbelly, starting with infiltrating an underground boxing club run by the Eyeless gang, a band of cultists who worship the god-like Outsider. She’s on the hunt for her mentor Daud (a master of both magic and violence who works as an elite assassin for hire and is central to the events of the first game and its DLCs) and quickly finds herself back on the streets of sunny Karnaca a few months after the end of the second game. In DDotO, you play as Billie Lurk, a streetsmart, tough straight-talker who was a key character in the ‘Knife of Dunwall’ DLC from Dishonored 1, and she also went by the name of Meagan Foster in Dishonored 2. It’s a shame, therefore, that this latest entry in the series continues to be dogged by some familiar failings. Far more importantly though, it keeps the series’ reputation intact, with bold design choices creating new problems and opportunities, and a new protagonist giving Arkane the chance to truly explore the game’s narrative. ![]() Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (DDotO), a hefty standalone expansion to Dishonored 2, has everything you would expect from the series, including sneaking, stabbing, exploding, mercy, destruction, and an overwhelming willingness to “make good choices”. Dishonored is a series defined by its constant evolution, with the dark and gritty stealth/action gameplay of the first game refined and expanded in a sequel that tried to build on what worked and fix what didn’t. ![]()
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