Thief

Good: * Rewarding Stealth & Shadows: The core mechanic of hiding in pitch-black shadows remains excellent. Light and sound tracking are highly responsive, making sneaking past guards genuinely tense. * The "Swoop" Mechanic: Players loved this quick-dash movement tool, which allows the protagonist, Garrett, to dart quickly between shadows and dodge guard sightlines seamlessly. * Atmospheric World Design: The Gothic, plague-ridden Victorian city is visually gorgeous, dripping with a dark, grim aesthetic. Bad: * Linear & Restrictive Levels: Unlike open-ended sandboxes of the older 1990s games, the reboot relies on "contextual movement." You can only jump or use your grappling claw at pre-designated, scripted spots which I personally didnt like at all :( * Frustrating Hub Map: Navigating "The City" hub between missions is highly tedious, broken up by constant, immersion-breaking loading screens and narrow choke points. Had Square Montreal shifted its focus from the story chapters towards the more open-ended city, and granted players more sandbox-y freedom, this could have been quite a milestone for the genre. In merely aping the strengths and, unfortunately, the bad hab…

recommend getting it on sale. the gameplay is not the best but i enjoyied it most of the time in the storyline

only complaint is that the ending was kinda confusing and that garret voice is on by default

It's games like this when I wish there was an option to not recommend it, but also recommend it at the same time. Having almost growing up watching my dad play this game I have a soft spot for it. That being said yes there are quite a few things wrong gameplay wise, such as having to go through the same exact 'breaking in' animation when opening the same window you already broke into, and the side quests being very lackluster. The story is... interesting. I haven't played any of the other Thief games but from what I can tell this one is less like being a master thief and more like detective simulator with some light thievery in between, picking up small, meaningless items that only give you about 5-10 gold each. What disappoints me the most is the cliffhanger at the end with the next game in the series completely ignoring that and switching to a new character entirely after 11 years. I understand different developers and all that, but at least try to pick up where they left off. For a game made in 2014 the graphics are incredible, but even though darkness is your friend and all that keeping to the shadows, sometimes it gets a bit too dark, to the point where you can't see anythi…

That game was great, to be honest. It's only sin at the time was that it was not dishonored, didn't have overpowered magic and skills - that was all the hype at the time. I do wonder how it would work on modern PC, but it was well optimized at the time...

I think this could've been a really good game and the aesthetic is awesome, but for me it got boring around chapter 3 or 4 once the story became more focused on the stone and erin instead of actually stealing stuff from people. I also expected a lot more of breaking into mansions and stealing expensive jewelry but i think the main thing i stole in this game was cups from poor peoples houses