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Thief .... It's what's
for dinner... that is if you let the hammerite zombies get ya. And
there is plenty of them later in this game.
Thief is unlike any First
Person Shooter you ever play, in fact their is allot less shooting
and a lot more sneaking around AVOIDING enemies and not making any
sounds. Smashing into houses and killing thousands of enemies is
not a option, you must act like a thief would act, and that mean's
not getting caught.
Thief is a incredibly
enjoyable game to behold, deeply creative, and tremendously difficult.
Our anti-hero is Garrett, once a Keeper (the watchmen of the city,
so highly skilled in stealth, no body sees them unless they want
them to) in training, left to do a less admirable occupation of
thiefry You start the game doing petty theft like steal a scepter
from a snobbish richman before you actually get into the plot and
purpose of the game, which involves Hammerite Zombies, Religious
Fanatics, A evil earth demon dubbed "The Trickster".
Instead of having a arsenal
of destructive weapons, you acquire only three. A Blackjack to knock
out enemies unconscious, it quickly becomes the weapon of choice.
A sword, a weak weapon that makes too much noise to be useful. And
a Bow, perfect for those far away shots. There are many types of
arrows you can use. Fire arrows, moss arrow, water arrow, even rope
arrows. Each weapons adds allot of stratergie to the game.
What makes thief so enjoyable
to play is it's stealthy game play. You use the darkness for you
advantage, since you learned the art for concealing yourself from
the keepers. A small gem on the bottom of the screen tells you how
well concealed you are, if its bright it means that you are exposed
to light at that time, if a guard saw you at this time you would
be attacked. If however the gem is dark then the darkness will hide
you and people wont see you. If you want to survive in this game
you MUST learn to hide in the shadows and remain undetected to survive,
you are not a tank. If you run around the place, a guard might hear
your footsteps and start to investigate. If you kill a guard and
forget to hide the body or "clean up" the blood spots,
a guard might sound the alarm. Gameplay requires you to think ahead
and to save often.
My only complaints is
that in some missions there are plenty of zombies but not enough
holy water to kill the zombies with and the graphics are a little
too dark in some places to see where to go. With that aside thief
is a great gaming experience and is recommended.
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If you must fight, you will die!
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