This loop continues until you’ve unraveled the mystery at the heart of the game. It’s game over. It's a heck of a moment that tugged at our heartstrings with a melancholy sci-fi tune playing out as the explosion swallows up the solar system.īut you then awake with the knowledge of everything you’ve gathered in the first bout of exploration. Still reading? Ok, some 20 minutes or so into your extra-terrestrial exploration and the sun explodes.
Read no further if you want to experience the game with no prior knowledge.
Starting out, you take off in a spaceship that’s partially made of wood from your home planet of Timber Hearth to track down other members of Outer Wilds Ventures. It sees you fill the shoes of a fledgling, or should that be hatchling, aquatic bipedal creature that’s a member of the Outer Wilds Ventures, an equally fledgling space program searching for answers in the solar system. Outer Wilds is a low-fi space exploration game with an intriguing mystery at its heart, mixed in with a healthy dose of humor and schadenfreude. It’s also on Xbox Game Pass, along with its DLC. Even if you don’t like stealthy games, Dishonored 2 is worth giving a go for its sheer variety, style and creativity, if bloody, fun you can have within the game’s systems. The environmental and level design was very good in the original game, but Dishonored 2 simply takes it to a new level with the likes of The Clockwork Mansion and Crack in the Slab being particular highlights.
Or you could simply opt to not use any power or kill anyone, such is the immersive sim nature of Dishonored 2 that lets you complete objectives pretty much in the way you see fit. But while the stealth meets magical powers and frenetic first-person action formula is intact, the game can now be played from two perspectives: that of the first game’s Corvo Attano or Empress Emily Kaldwin.īoth have different powers that we found enable players to navigate the game's creative mission and areas in different ways, as well as dispose of targets in all manner in interesting fashions. Dishonored 2 is, unsurprisingly, the follow-up to the original Dishonored.
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