CLOCKWORK REVOLUTION
Developer/publisher Xbox Game Studios (inXile Entertainment) Format PC, Xbox Series Release TBA
The filth trickles down in the pristine city of Avalon, ending up in the slums where you’re trying to make a living – rarely an honest one. Wasteland developer inXile serves up a world here that seems to run like Dishonored’s Dunwall by way of Guy Ritchie, as various criminal geezers make sure we know they mean business by swearing a lot. Take the three characters unveiled early in the trailer: local mobster the Shark, a talking puppet introduced as ‘the pissed-off doll’, and a snooty lord simply nicknamed ‘the Knob’ (yes, with a K). They’re a mixture of the self-entitled, psychopathic and plain angry. The odds of meeting anyone pleasant seem long.