In Dishonored you play as security-guard-turned-assassin Corvo Attano who gets framed for murdering the Queen, causing you to set out to recapture your good name and rid the city of the corrupt people conspiring against you.

Open-world gameplay; wide array of awesome abilities; two different endings

Main campaign is a little short; low-res textures

Arkane Studios has returned to the gaming scene after quite some time. In 2006, they released Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, which brought some rather cool gameplay features, but thanks to a majority of intolerable glitches and technical mishaps the game was widely criticized.

First-class art direction; a unique and compelling atmosphere; extremely fun gameplay; great soundtrack and voiceovers; strong replay value

AI issues; may not be as challenging as you'd expect; especially when you upgrade Corvo's abilities; a lot shorter than we'd like

You may have heard Dishonored being compared with Assassin's Creed and Bioshock ,and we must now ask you to put those out of your mind because those comparisons just won't do. You might as well compare ice cream to chocolate, or an orgasm to having a really good dump.

So this is it: the end of Dishonored . Well, until the inevitable sequel of course. The Knife of Dunwall was an excellent extra chunk of story covering Daud, the empress' assassin, as he sought redemption by taking on a mission from the still-mysterious Overseer.

Lithe, deceptive and deadly: the titular antagonists of Dishonored 's second story based DLC, The Brigmore Witches , make for formidable opponents, armed with Outsider granted sorcery and ghostly pet hellhounds.

Arkane Studios really knows how to handle DLC. After the stellar Knife of Dunwall campaign, I was immediately sold on the follow-up Brigmore Witches , not only to find out how Daud's tale ends, but to experience even more scenarios that were superior to the original game.

Daud the assassin is back in the second and final story-based Dishonored DLC pack. The Brigmore Witches picks up where the first DLC left off, putting you back in the shoes of the Knife of Dunwall, armed with his blade, his wristbow and his Mark of the Outsider as he continues his pursuit of Delilah...

While Knife of Dunwall provides a good excuse to revisit the city of Dunwall, it never does anything particularly interesting. There are no missions akin to Lady Boyle's Last Party or powers quite as neat as the ability to summon rats.

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Play it with care and attention, and this is another six hours or so of Dishonored for a mere £8. In short, this is the DLC I've been waiting for since October of last year.