Dishonored 2

Most of us know how Arkane was infested by Anita Sarkeesian and her patsies and decided to change the direction of their gaming. Dishonored was a decent spiritual successor to the Thief series, as should be expected from the minds that created the stealth genre. It only really lacked the amazing vocal talents of Stephen Russell to be complete. D2 at least has that. Unfortunately, things went rapidly downhill from there. With Sarkeesian's influence, a secondary character was promoted to PC: poor Emily Kaldwin... and there things fell apart completely. Because politics insisted that they insert this character for whom no one asked, Arkane had to include all new mechanics to give her similar-- but not exactly the same-- powers to Corvo. This is where the mechanics of the game were irrevocably damaged. The new game engine simply doesn't work for her "Far Reach", a distorted attempt to give her a similar power to Corvo and Daud's "Blink" that doesn't operate in nearly the same manner. It clips to anything and everything randomly, usually EXCEPT the item targeted by the cross hairs. This causes the player to fly bizarrely, or (because it can be used to pull items and enemies towards you) can make noise, alert enemies, and cause all kinds of issues for a stealth player. Since this is the power many players will use the most, it generally causes the most problems for players. Emily is also part of the irritating woke trend in media of making characters gay or lesbian. Personally, I get enough of that hamfisted into EVERY SINGLE Netflx show. I neither want nor need it in my gaming. Most people I know who are LGBTQ are irritated with the attempts by media sources to pander-- they know full well that producers don't CARE about them and are only trying to manipulate them to score points. There are other issues, but this review is running out of space. YouTube has dozens of reviews of this game's flaws in writing and play. Suffice to say that it's a $5 game at best.

Same as the 1st one. NO character development...as in... NONE. NO having the fun of finding a really neat, goodie. Aka .. armor, weapon, accessory... except runes, that can be such a pain to find, and then they do crap.... they're not even worth the insane amount of time you spend, trying to retrieve them. Big deal.. look for hours, get a rune... and get an upgrade of several more bullets. Or some other fairly boring stat... Endless, empty buildings, streets and so forth. Big deal... can play as a female. Same boring settings, same LACK of any interesting character development, same pathetic weapons.. a gun or sword... that's it. NO decent armor... shallow exchanges between NPC's... Go... find... kill... return... OVER and OVER.... All in areas you've seen a thousand times and devoid of anything interesting.... anywhere. The way the ad has been worded... you get the impression there's so much difference between #1 and 2... Not so... in reality it's the same ... same basic story, same exact locations, NO improvement in any goodies, and the same, boring, empty locals... and game play. So one can "zoom" further than the other... big deal.... doesn't make up for the lack of any real interesting events... or items.... or... or.... or.... Gotta hand it to GOG and the dev's.... at least it's one of the best... CON JOBS, I've seen in a long time. Think I'll go watch the paint dry.

Anita was brought in to redesign the game from the ground up to be more "inclusive." Which meant turning Corvo into a cuck and pushing anti-white messages. It goes without saying that there's a huge helping of feminist whinging as well. Just ignore the sequels and stick to the original game.