This game is an outright masterpiece.
The art style is very creative, basically three dimensional watercolor paintings of a 19th century-esque empire come to life. Viktor Antonov, one of the art designers from Half-Life 2, had a huge role in this game and its very obvious when you see the battle-walkers or many areas of the city which are reminescent of City 17. Even without the art style, Dunwall and the Empire's weird industrial world are beautifully expressed and deeply protrayed as a flawed, interesting world.
The gameplay itself is fantastic, letting you play how you want. You can be stealthy and silent and sneak around the hard way like an old school playthrough of Thieft or you can kill everything and everyone and leave the world in chaos. You can be a weird ninja wizard and teleport around the world, mind control rats to eat people, and more.
One of the coolest aspects of this game is that how you play affects the world and the ending, even if it seems to only be in minor ways. Play chaotic and the amount of rat swarms increases. Choose to take out targets a certain way and technically no one dies.
The art style is very creative, basically three dimensional watercolor paintings of a 19th century-esque empire come to life. Viktor Antonov, one of the art designers from Half-Life 2, had a huge role in this game and its very obvious when you see the battle-walkers or many areas of the city which are reminescent of City 17. Even without the art style, Dunwall and the Empire's weird industrial world are beautifully expressed and deeply protrayed as a flawed, interesting world.
The gameplay itself is fantastic, letting you play how you want. You can be stealthy and silent and sneak around the hard way like an old school playthrough of Thieft or you can kill everything and everyone and leave the world in chaos. You can be a weird ninja wizard and teleport around the world, mind control rats to eat people, and more.
One of the coolest aspects of this game is that how you play affects the world and the ending, even if it seems to only be in minor ways. Play chaotic and the amount of rat swarms increases. Choose to take out targets a certain way and technically no one dies.