Gamescom 2012: Dishonored is Eurogamer’s Game of the Show
Gamescom is over! Well, it was actually over a while ago now – Tom P, Wes and I have just emerged from a sausage-induced slumber and realised that in the haze of pork, thimbles of beer and video games we never got round to naming EG’s Game of the Show. Somewhat pleasingly, it hasn’t been the most straightforward of choices. We’re supposed to be in a bit of a cross-generational slump right now, as a fairly mediocre E3 attested, and at Gamescom it was easy to think that we’d get to see that slump depress a little further in what’s traditionally a less spectacular show. That really wasn’t the case. Capcom dazzled with the announcement of Remember Me, an IP it’d taken when the French developed project was without a publisher and was, somewhat fittingly, known as Adrift. Ninja Theory’s DmC was its sparkling jewel, though, and it looks increasingly likely that this reboot will have those early critics munching their own words. Read more…
