Thief

A very pretty game, but ultimately a hollow experience compared to both its forebears and more recent...

That isn’t the case, though, as it’s very much a “take it as it is” experience, and if you’re willing to do so you’ll find that it just might steal some time from your weekend.

CommentA good sneaking game with great stealth mechanics is hard to come by these days. As a master thief, it’s your job to score some great loot without anyone knowing you are there, until it’s too late. So is everything worth taking or are all the...

Thief is a muddled but well-intentioned game that undermines smart, sinister stealth with weird controls and lousy characters. An atmospheric setting and plenty of freedom helps matters enormously, but all told it's a strange compromise of a...

Eidos Montreal and Square Enix have resurrected one of my all time favorite PC series with their remake of Thief. When Thief: The Dark Age came out in 1998, I was hooked. I loved the stealth game play, the maps that contained multiple maps to my goal,...

A poorly-designed outing that might, in another continuity where the previous Thief games never existed, have earned itself the heady accolade of 'barely average'. Unfortunately, we all know that it could be € and has been done € so much...

Thief is an occasionally tense, sometimes frustrating, weirdly depressing slice of modern gaming. On the medium difficulty level all you're really doing is following instructions as the story unfolds around you. It is hugely customisable though,...

Thief does many things right. The gameplay is great for the most part, Garrett is his same wonderful self, it looks wonderful, the AI often works well, and the range of customization options is amazing. Missions are enjoyable with a couple of real...

PC) Developer: Square Enix Publisher: Square Enix Platform(s): PC, X360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 The first full mission of Thief has you literally following a rail. It's set in a factory designed to assemble mannequins, transported through the building...

Remember what playgrounds used to be like? The best of them featured huge wooden and metal structures filled with dodgy activities such as ring-swinging or ziplining. They encouraged risk-taking and escapades. We'd get hurt on them sometimes—I have a...

Either way, it's a game that adds up to less than the sum of its parts. Undeniably, Thief suffers greatly by comparison to Dishonored - its more coherent, more thoughtfully and successfully designed cousin, in whose shadow Garrett and his game now cringe.

Between the hit-or-miss missions is an extremely annoying city hub map and a weak story full of bland characters, and Garrett himself isn’t as sure-footed as a master thief ought to be. Ignoring the story and cherrypicking the best side missions is the best way to approach it.

Whether you are new to the series or cut your teeth on Thief's particular brand of stealth when it was still novel, I'd wager your feelings will waver as often as mine did. The Thief-franchise-inspired Dishonored waves the stealth flag far more confidently than this reboot does. Garrett is not yet on his way out, but he's been shown the door.