What's your favorite stealth game and why?

[Liz Shaw]

Aside from Death to Spies, one of my favourite stealth game series has to be Splinter Cell (I've had experience with the games since 2004, though I haven't gotten round to playing the more recent games (Conviction and Blacklist)).

Another favourite of mine has to be Dishonored. I like the idea of not killing anybody, even assassination targets.

The thing with stealth games in general is that they offer a way to get around the issue with excessive violence in games - something I quickly picked up when playing the GBA port of Pandora Tomorrow on an emulator. Dishonored gives the player two choices - killing people or simply choking them unconscious. Corvo can either murder people in his quest for revenge and lose his sense of humanity, or simply show restraint, and the chaos system reinforces the choices he makes. This is what I like about the game, and the low chaos approach can give players some moral lessons.