Recent reviews by Floyd

This game is absolutely brilliant. there are simply so many ways to play the game, there are too many to count. once you've finished the main story (wich is amazing BTW), you immediatley want to start another game. and this is where the fun begins. the sheer amount of player-made challenges and restrictions you can put on yourself makes the replay value of this game sky-high. just to name a few, you can play flesh and steel; not using any supernatural powers and not accepting the outsiders mark. you can play ghost; never get detected, non-leathal; not killing anyone, and then you have the obvious difficulty setting. these are just the more popular ones. Personally, i love mixing them all up and combining them for a refreshing and intense playtrough.

but what Dishonored 2 does best in my opinion, a thing also being a core feature in the first game, is giving you choice of how to traverse the map. with the new generation of consoles (*cough* pcmasterrace *cough*), Arkane could put insane amounts of content in every level (more like map considering the size of them). so much so, in fact that at times I found myself wondering how the hell they did it! You will rarely find yourself with only one single path to approach an objective. each map is packed full of NPCs, explorable buildings and apartments. Every NPC has something useful to say (at least if you overhear conversations they have with others), and every apartment has a story to tell, and this is where Arkane's masterful enviromental storytelling comes in. I simply won't give an example of this, because you should experience it yourself.

Another great addition to the game, is NPC randomness. Enemies, of course, still have their usual set patrols, but once things turn ugly, they may sometimes act in unexpected ways, like someone would in real life.

Now, if you do end up buying this game (wich I highly recommend you do), the one thing that made this game probably more amazing for me than for others, is the fact that i turned of the HUD. every part of the beatiful level design and enviromental storytelling in the maps comes to life, and with the HUD no more blocking 20% of your feild of view, you get to see much more of them. now your question might be "well, if i can't see the HUD, how do i know where to go?". here's the thing: you don't, but Arkane have put the tool to lead you to all corners of the levels in your hand: the heart. In the beginning, I was confused as to how I was supposed to find out all the secrets of the maps, but i quickly came to the realization that the bone charms and runes were placed so you would explore the entire map to find them all.

Now, i know what you're saying... "but how come you're saying the game is so good when the reviews are so bad!?". well, the simple answer is that the only thing that those negative reviews have in common, is that they are all regarding PC performance, wich is as good as fixed now.

There is really nothing about this game that i do not like. I highly recommend buying it, just do a little research and there should be lots of places that sell the game for cheap.