Publisher Bethesda is very happy with the sales figures of Dishonored, the stealth game from the French Arkane Studios, who at the beginning of October came to market. The publisher sees the game as the beginning of a series. When the first successor appears, is not known.
Pete Hines, head of the pr department of publisher Bethesda, says in an interview with Destructoid that he is very satisfied with the sales figures of Dishonored. He wants, no numbers to call, but let loose that the game is done better than the publisher had expected. According to Hines did the game on Steam, it downloadplatform of Valve. The pr-man contends that Dishonored the best-selling game during the last weekend of november, which is traditionally in North America most kerstaankopen be done. Also in Europe sold the game well, puts Hines.
That is for Bethesda reason to be a successor of the game of the French Arkane Studios. “We clearly have a new series,” says Hines. He is, however, nothing about a successor of the stealth game, which not only sold well, but also good reviews. The publisher was already known that there are three expansions for Dishonored.
Arkane Studios invented for Dishonored a fantasy world that is based loosely on the London of over a century ago. The gameplay for the game was conceived by Harvey Smith, who previously worked on the somewhat similar System Shock. In the appearance of the game is the hand to recognize Viktor Antonov, the Bulgarian who previously had the look of City 17, and coined, the city that is at the end of Half-Life 2 appears.
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