Dishonored for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

Bethesda game studios always release AAA games. Hours of gameplay, amazing settings, and in-depth character customization. But, as always the controls leave a bit to be desired.
Dishonored is no different, except it is considerably shorter than Fallout or Skyrim, with 10 levels/ Missions (I beat the story including all side missions in about 20 hours). The story, graphics, non-playable characters and art are amazing. You will enjoy exploring each level, from gritty sewers and a grimy prison to glamorous mansions of the frilly higher class, every area is a joy to plunder and alter- alter as in rewiring security mechanisms to cater to your travels or destroying certain doors rather than finding the key for examples.
Meeting all the different characters in the game is very interesting and you will find yourself really thinking through who's side you will take when characters paths cross. All the voice work and character design is right on point.
The games two biggest downfalls though, are the controls and the leveling up system. Personally for me it was enough to keep this game from being great, still, the game is quite good.
The controls always seem to be a split second slower than the pace of the combat. Especially when the majority of your powers are delivered from your empty left hand. Meaning if you want to do your tornado attack and then slow down time, you have to switch between the two powers which is nothing more than your hand lowering out of view only to resurface from the bottom of the screen causing a whole second of wait. This caused be to die many times due to being a sitting duck until you can attack or use you power again.
Leveling up in the game is not experience point based. You have to collect runes. Runes are used as experience points, but there are only so many per mission. You really level up at the will of the game, instead of getting experience for combat, exploration and mission completion.
Real good tho

Dishonored is a really fantastic game with many ideas heavily influenced by other games to create a unique experience. While playing, I had feelings of Thief, Bioshock, Dark Messiah, Half-Life 2, and Skyrim.

The stealth is very smooth and the first person sword fighting is THE BEST of any game ever. It is not open world, but more like seperate, semi-large areas. Think Dragon Age or Borderlands. However, there is just so many secrets to uncover! The overall plot was decent, despite being a bit generic. What really kept me entranced was how well done the characters were. They are what kept me going!

This game did have its small problems though. For one it was kinda short. Its single player only and it took me only about 9-10 hours for the main story and SOME of the extra stuff. There are three endings however, but I did not feel they were varied enough for me to keep replaying. Another was with multiple opportunities in the story, the end results were mostly the same.

On a side note, do not let the Bethesda logo discern you PS3 users. They were only the publishers. Arkane studios, the developers, did a fine job on the PS3 version.

PROS:
+Deep world
+Interesting characters
+Smooth stealth system
+Fun and simple combat system

CONS:
-Short play length
-Generic story
-Choices make little change