The Clockwork Soldiers guard the Clockwork Mansion.
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Dishonored 2 hands-on: Infiltrating the Clockwork Mansion

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Clockwork Mansion is one of the amazing environments of Dishonored 2. It’s a mansion with all sorts of mechanical gadgetry that enables the house to reassemble itself, and it’s guarded by robotic Clockwork Soldiers. Getting through it is like navigating a maze.

Game publisher Bethesda Softworks let me play the level this week for Dishonored 2, the sequel to the award-winning Dishonored by Bethesda’s Arkane Studios. My task was to rescue a friend, Anton Sokolov, and take out the mansion’s owner Kirin Jindosh.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.