Yesterday, Bethesda teased the image of a rugged man on its Facebook page. Many speculated that the image was a reference to the upcoming Skyrim DLC or possibly Fallout 4, but as facts would have it, the image in fact belongs to the protagonist of Dishonored, Corvo Atano.
The trailer opens up with Corvo rotting inside a prison cell in Dunwall. "When you are near my heart is at peace. Hurry home," says a woman's voice. It's followed by the voice of a lawyer who says he's killed the empress.
He's jarred from his thoughts by the approach of a mysterious figure who explains how he's been framed for the death of the empress.
The mysterious figure brands Corvo with a mark on the back of his left hand and presumably frees him from the prison cell.
The scene cuts away to the city of Dunwall, which looks a lot like London in the early 1900s. Power lines run across the city, feeding electricity to the electrical lamps on every street. A ship of some sort moves through the canal in the middle of the city.
As the camera pans to the sight of corpses piled up by the side of the canal, a loudspeaker blares an alert to members of the City Watch to be on guard for suspicious persons. Another warning is issued to state that "contaminated" buildings are off-limits. A mechanized walker strides across the screen. It's not the last we've seen of these machines.
As a mechanical carriage moves through the street on rails, a guard on an overwatch tower looks down at milling citizens on the street below. He issues an order to the watchman beside him to clear them out. The watchman is hooked into the mechanized walker we saw earlier.
Armed with a composite bow, the watchman in the walker takes aim at the citizens and lets loose an inferno that burns them in the conflagration.
One of the panicked citizens runs in-between a pair of tesla coils located by the rails and explodes into a pile of smoldering meat.
The passenger of the mechanical carriage is revealed as a nobleman of some sort, and he sniffs his disdain at the dead civilians and continues on his journey through the city.
Corvo watches the carriage from the rooftops.
Corvo takes a quick look at his mask and wears it. It has a mechanical interior. Putting it on, his vision shifts red and back to normal
Like Ezio Auditore, Corvo leaps across the rooftops, in pursuit of the carriage, and heads to its destination.
Armed guards patrol the building's exterior.
Corvo makes his entry by stabbing a guard from above and makes his way into the building.
Our protagonist peers through a keyhole and spies the man in the carriage and a guard speaking to each other. The nobleman in the carriage says that he sees no reason to be concerned about the disease ravaging the city as long as it confines itself to the poor.
Corvo's hand lights up when he uses a power to destroy the door. He makes short work of the guard with his dagger and pursues the nobleman.
As he breaks into another room, three guards take aim at Corvo with their guns and open fire. He uses an ability to freeze time and another ability to turn their bullets back at them. This kills the guards.
As more guards burst into the room, Corvo uses another power to dash forwards, and propels himself out through the glass window and onto the street below.
Barely regaining his balance, he's ambushed by two mechanized walkers.
Here, we can finally get a good view of what Corvo looks like. He holds up his glowing hand and the trailer ends with the words "revenge solves everything."
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