Bethesda acquired Arkane Studios last August but little was known of their first title with the parent company until now. Developers of Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic have been secretly toiling away on Dishonored, a first person stealth, action adventure game.
Dishonored has a super team of co-directors including Deus Ex lead designer Harvey Smith along with Arx Fatalis lead designer, Raphael Colantonio. Arkane has also enlisted the work of Viktor Antonov, the artistic mind behind Half Life 2’s dystopian City 17.
Game Informer is fronting the August issue for Dishonored and here’s what they have to say so far about the new title:
Dishonored is the antithesis of a edge-of-your-seat roller-coaster ride. It’s a game about assassination where you don’t have to kill anyone. It’s a game about infiltration where you can set up traps and slaughter the entire garrison of an aristocrat’s mansion rather than sneak in. It’s a game about brutal violence where you can slip in and out of a fortified barracks with nobody ever knowing you were there. It’s a game about morality and player choice where the world you create is based on your actions, not navigating conversation trees.
Dishonored is slated for release in 2012 for PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3.
