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Posted by Alec Meer on December 1st, 2007 at 1:13 pm.
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I really liked Thief 3.
The first two games are superior – especially Thief 2, which I only played properly for the first time last year and I loved it to bits – but Thief 3 really shouldn’t be dismissed.
It’s definitely a better continuation of its series than its sister game, Invisible War.
Deadly shadows was fantastic IMO. Perhaps a little linear and small, as has been said, but the presentation is very slick and responsive.
It helps somewhat that the asylum level is without doubt the scariest thing i’ve ever done in a game. I spent at least an hour stalking around that haunted deathtrap without seeing a single enemy(but hearing them constantly).
I was so on edge and totally wigged out that by the time I actually found one, I found myself quite incapable of reacting well enough to kill it -_- Epic memories.
dhex, it’s tantamount criminal that you haven’t played the first two Thief games yet. I’d consider them superior to System Shock 2 and even BioShock. They are testaments to perfect and interesting world-building (Which I find is a rare feat within the genre of fantasy) and characterisation, and have for thematic resonance than any of Ken Levine’s later works.
very well then! i shall have to peep this, as the kids say.
It is definitely worth getting deadly shadows off steam – in my, massively controversial, opinion it is better than the first two. :o.
The tackiness of DX’s ‘acting’ is one of its greatest delights! I wish they’d stressed the comedy in the ‘bomb’ scene, actually.
“Oh my god, JC, a bomb!”
“A BOMB?!”
“A BOMB!”
“A bomb…”
…My favourite is probably the South African(?) barman in Hong Kong who discusses the nature of freedom with JC, namedropping his favourite philosopher in a tone like he’s having trouble reading from a shopping list. Ion Storm spared no expense on casting!