Dishonored Preview: The Ways of System Shock and Thief Return
The Cat House is a high class brothel, a dramatic white building sat far above the city of Dunwall’s harbour. Your mark is a regular customer, and he’s currently cavorting with a masked lady of the night in its lavish penthouse – you, meanwhile, are crouching unseen on a window sill, peering through ornamental glass. What next? Well, I guess you could stab him or shoot him. If you don’t mind making a mess you could also pause time and hang five separate crossbow bolts in front of his face. That way once normal temporal service resumes he’ll be very dead indeed. Alternatively, you could get creative. Why not leap into control of his body and steer him towards the white marble balcony that overlooks harbour? Then simply jump backwards out of his body and, while he retches up his guts in panic and confusion, spend a little more magical Essence on a Windblast. As he ragdolls into the wild blue yonder it’ll feel like the perfect crime, if it weren’t for the dainty witness screaming behind you. Read more…





