When discussing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Deathloop, it’s hard not to bring 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dishonored into the conversation. That’s because Deathloop borrows a lot of ideas from that gaming franchise. This is natural as both games were developed by the same company, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Arkane Studios.
If one didn’t know any better, gamers might have thought this was ex-deve🐲lopers from that company making a spirit💎ual successor to Dishonored but that’s not the case. What exactly do these two games have in common and are there things that Deathloop does better than Dishonored? Are there things it does worse?
To dive deep, there will be some light spoilers for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the story ahead.
6 ✱ 🐭 Multiple Characters
The first Dishonored game was only about Corvo. The second game expanded the scope of the campaign and allowed players to either continue as Corvo or switch things up and play as Emily. Both characters followed the same campaign, roughly, with the biggest changes being ma🐎de to their powers.
Julianna cannot go through the same story as Colt in Deathloop, but she is playable. This means that both games have split options for campaigns with one focusing on a male protagonist and the other being female. Julianna’s mode is more unique than Emily’s in that it sees players trying to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:prevent Colt’s narrative from succeeꦚding. It’s a nice twist for multiplayer.
5 Open Game🐬play 🎐
All three games have big, open environments to play around in. That doesn’t mean the Dishonored series or Deathloop are considered open-world games, but rather open-ended. Every game is separated 🌳into distinct loading zones. They do all take place within the same city, orꦆ island for the most part though.
It’s more like a sandbox with tons of small secluded missions found within. The wealth of options given to the players to complete missions in each set of games allows for a lot of experimentation. The one downside to Deathloop is that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Colt’s weapon wheelhouse is more limited in terms of stealth gear as opposed to ✨Emily‘s, o🎃r Corvo’s. Other than that they are all similar.
4 Supernatural Powers ꦇ 🙈
The most distinct feature found within each series is the powers. In the Dishonored series they are just known as supernatural abilities which are granted by a mysterious, other-dimensional being. Powers in Deathloop 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:are provided by Slabs a💫nd they are like organic items that fuse into players. Colt or Juliana can only have thrඣee Slabs equipped at a time.
Corvo and Emily, on the other hand, are able to use everything that players have unlocked. Many of the powers act similarly as well. For example, the Nexus Slab in Deathloop acts like Domino in Dishonored. This ability allows players to sync up attacks on multiple enemies. Another example would be Shift from Deathloop which is a warp-like abili📖ty similar to Blink in Dishonored. There are many more examples, but the comparisons are clear.
3 �💖� Charismatic Bosses
Corvo’s original campaign, as well as the sequel’s, has players seeking revenge for bureaucrat🥂s corrupting a kingdom. Each assassination plan is intricately detailed. This is where the variety in technique comes into play as you can take down these targets in too many ways to count. Colt is also seeking revenge on a dastardly hierarchy of villaiꦚns, but it’s not to save a kingdom or anything noble like that.
It’s a more selfish reason as all he wants is to escape his time loop and in turn the island. The connecting tissue here is that every boss in both of these series are charismatic oddities that are hard to forget. The boss fights themselves aren’t as intricately planned as something like a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear game. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The AI overall, from cannon fodder to bosses, aren’t amazin𝕴gly complex. Sometimes it’s all about the journey - or character - and not the destination, and that’s okay.
2 Visual Style ꦕ
Dishonored had nice graphics at the time but the thing that stood out was the art style. 🌊The world looked normal but the characters almost had a clay-like design to them. They were exaggerated which made both games stand amongst other stealth games or shooters of the era.
Deathloop is going for a more realistic approach when it comes to its characters. There isn’t much artistic license given to them but there is still creativity found within the environment. Both series then switched ideas in terms of what to exaggerate. It should be noted 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:that the costumes in Deathloop are more abstraꦚct, even if they are ♊more realistic looking.
1 ജ ꦏMasks As A Theme
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To coincide with the art♕ department, both series feature masks as themes. In the first Dishonored game, Corvo is assassinated. He is thought to be dead, lives, and revived himself long enough to get revenge and to rescue Emily. He disguised himself with a mask that has tons of gadgets inside. It’s like his utility belt but inܫ the form of a mask.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Colt or Julianna do not wear masks. Colt instead fights masked villains. Some of the Visionaries wear masks, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:such as Aleksis who looks like a wolf. That’s a big part of his assassination mission as players have to find out what wolf mask is his. Every normal enemy in the game wears a mask, though the reason why is unclear - it's referenced as anonymity or freedom. Masks then are definitely a related theme between both series.