Bethesda has released a new trailer for “The Knife of Dunwall”, the upcoming DLC for Dishonored. In this expansion, you get to play as Corvo's (i.e., the protagonist from the base game) enemy. Daud is the assassin who killed the Empress, and it sounds from the voiceover on this trailer that he's a little conflicted about it.
“I'd killed nobles before,” he says, “Why should an Empress be different?”
The trailer even features the moment in which Daud commits the murder, though it's not obvious whether the player will actually get to take control as he does it. Whichever way, Daud doesn't seem happy afterwards.
“For six months, I tried to forget what I'd done to the Empress and her little girl.”
From what we've heard, this DLC is a chance for Daud to redeem himself, or at least embark on a quest for redemption that inevitably fails. But he isn't quite torn up enough about dispatching the Empress that he stops his killing ways, at least not in the trailer. Instead, we get lots of flashes of action much like the way Corvo goes about things if you elect to play him as a man motivated only be the desire for revenge. In other words, lots of using his supernatural powers to freeze time before killing someone, teleport before killing someone, etc. It looks pretty fun, whatever the underlying story is supposed to be (something about the Outsider, Daud's group of merry assassins otherwise known as the Whalers, and someone/thing called Delilah).
Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall is due to launch for Xbox 360 and PC on April 16, and PS3 on April 17.
