Dishonored Wins Best of Gamescom Award

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Arkane Studios new IP Dishonored had an impressive showing at Gamescom, taking home the much coveted Best of Show award.

Gamescom organiser Koelnmesse called upon 20 industry experts to pick out the best and brightest from 2012’s show. It was a good spread in terms of publishers with Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, EA, and Activision all taking home awards.

…and the winners are:

  • Best of Gamescom – Dishonored
  • Best Console Game PS3 – Dishonored
  • Best Console Game Xbox 360 – Dishonored
  • Best Console Game Wii – Rayman Legends
  • Best Family Game – Rayman Legends
  • Best Hardware including Peripheral – Wonderbook: Book of Spells
  • Best Mobile Game – LittleBigPlanet Vita
  • Best Online Multiplayer Game – Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
  • Best PC Game – SimCity
  • Best Social/Casual/Online Game – Warface

There’s certainly a lot of buzz around Dishonored, at least from within the industry, are you looking forward to its release in October? If you’re still undecided, check out our full hands-on preview of the game right here.

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14 Comments

  1. To me, it looks like it could potentially be way too easy when you get better powers, since all you have to do is activate them, and you can deal with any situation. This would be good if it had limited power like Bioshock’s use of Eve, but here it regenerates so you’re left with practically infinite power. I’m still interested, but I’ll definitely wait for reviews.

    • To me it just looks very much like Bioshock, which we had years ago. I haven’t seen anything yet that has really excited me. Perhaps I’m just hard to please. Similarly I shall wait for the reviews, it won’t be a pre-order unless something changes my mind.

      • & yet to me, anything that happens to resemble Bioshock in any way shape or form is worth a look in my book. :)

      • Yeah, I’m keeping an eye on it but so far it seems a little overhyped, perhaps because people are so keen for new IPs. I shall reserve judgement though until I read some reviews and/or play it!

      • Oh yeah,. could well turn out to be a complete stinker when full release rolls around, so will definitely keep an open mind, but it has done a sufficient job of raising my interest up to now. :)

    • It only partially regenerates, so that you can use basic powers like teleporting and seeing through walls. For more powerful things like bending time or possessions, you need to use Mana potions in order to keep yourself topped up.

  2. So Rayman:Legends won’t be a Wii U exklusive? As it won best Wii game.

    • It is a WiiU exclusive, they’re just bundling everything under the Wii name.

      • And presumably because there’s virtually nothing left of any importance coming out for the Wii…

  3. Good for Arkane. Its always nice to see a new IP gaining a lot of momentum

  4. Hadn’t even heard of this time last month now its probably my most anticipated this year (aside from Resi6). Looking forward to some stealthy Bioshock :D

  5. Im intrigued to see what it’s like,Will most likely rent it at first then if it’s goodi shall stealthly make my way to gamestation in a robe and buy it!

  6. No mention of Borderlands 2? :(
    At least they recognized the awesomeness that is Rayman Legends.

  7. Xcom wins it in my book. I was amazed at how well it played on the PS3.

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