CNET Editors' review
In the latest installment of this excellent stealth-action series, Garrett the master thief must save the world from an approaching Dark Age stoked by a mystical group known as the Keepers. In the meantime, of course, there's plenty of loot to steal. Garrett might sound like Adam West, but the environments are brilliantly rendered and the gameplay is excellent. Gamers undeterred by the massive download and system requirements will receive an excellent introduction to Thief: Deadly Shadows.
A tutorial teaches the basics of gameplay: sneaking past guards, extinguishing lights, grabbing loot, climbing walls, picking locks, immobilizing enemies, and stashing bodies. The demo involves stealing an opal from a lord before his brother can steal it. You glean information from the brother and use it to rob the lord. Tactical strategies are up to you. It's quite possible to sneak through the entire demo undetected. Alternately, you could slash and stash opponents, but the other guards will notice the carnage. Garrett's mechanical eye, which zooms in on faraway objects, helps you employ distractions such as noisemaker arrows. Despite its system demands, the variety of gameplay and excellent graphics in Thief: Deadly Shadows make the demo worth the download.
Publisher's Description
From Eidos:
You are Garrett, the master thief. Rarely seen and never caught, Garrett is the best thief that ever was. Able to sneak past any guard, pick any lock, and break into the most ingeniously secured residences, Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City. Here crime and corruption are commonplace, wealthy nobles prey on the poor and on each other, and magic and machinery coexist uneasily. World-weary and cynical, Garrett wants nothing more than to be left alone to ply his trade. But things never work out that way.
This first official demo for the third game in this stealth-action series offers a tutorial and one level from the full game.
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4.6 starsout of 19 votes
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4.6 starsout of 19 votes
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"Must play if you like sleath-action"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Pros
Excellent stealth action, extremely long and rewarding gameplay
Cons
They didn't have those steam-powered 'robots' they have in Thief:The Metal Age
Summary
Let me say this first and get it out of the way:
Back in 1998 when the original Thief:The Dark Project was launched, it was the game that INVENTED the sleath-action genre and opened doors for the others to follow.
This third installation features the same great gameplay as the previous two, with emphasis on hiding and waiting, rather than mindless shoot-to-kill.
If you're new to the Thief series, it might take you a while getting used to the concept, but it is really rewarding!! -
"Still the best in stealth"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Pros
A huge improvement graphically and the enemies are much smarter than previous versions. Love this game!
Cons
The waypoint system is both good and bad. I quite often find myself travelling a long way through various parts of the map trying to find out where I should be going - perhaps it is just me, but they are not entirely intuitive
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"Kick-ass"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Pros
AWESOME
Cons
NOTHIN
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"Awesome"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Pros
stealing
Cons
music
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"the perfect sequel!"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Summary
i loved thief 1, i loved thief 2, but the new 1 is just magnificent!
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"best thief game ever :)))))"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
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i guess it's no surprise that the game looks so fine cos i guess it took the guys a lot of work
no special comments should be made cos the game speaks for itself
i've never played a better-looking game than this.....never! -
"High system requirements with great game play"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Summary
If you got the system requirements get ready for a monster of a game that will blow you away
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"one of the best game demo"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
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A good game only for super computer. But made well
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"An excellent demo"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Summary
Running on a DELL 360 workstation with 3Ghz processor, 2GB RAM and a nVidia QuadroFX 500 graphics card the games runs beautifully on max resolution setting. The only issue is that I can't see the mouse cursor so that it's hard to choose options. eg save/load a game.
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"Good game, but CPU Heavy"
Version: Thief: Deadly Shadows demo
Summary
Fun game all around, but a couple of issues. It runs choppy with the lowest settings on my Athlon XP 2600, 1 GIG memory and FX5200 video card. Even the DOOM3 and HL2 betas ran better. The AI is also a little dumb on standard difficulty. Hope they have a patch soon!
