Having sampled a fair amount of steampunk fiction I’d pretty much concluded it was a genre best relegated to photography or film, not text. But there may be another place steampunkery may be successful – computer games. The BioShock series looks promising, but perhaps even more promising is the 2012 game Dishonored. Here is the trailer:
And here is the soundtrack to it, based upon an early 19th century sea chanty:
|MP3| (right click to download (it doesn’t HuffDuff properly)
[via Bethesda’s Blog]
Posted by Jesse Willis