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Thief 3 Website Goes Live
Sabathius writes "If you're a Thief super-freak like me, you've been looking at the 'Coming soon' message at thief3.com for years...hoping they would finally put something there. Well, our collective prayers have been answered! This spring Thief 3 (Thief: Deadly Shadows) is being released by the same guys who recently gave us Deus Ex: Invisible War." S!: We've also recently covered previews of this new Thief title at Slashdot Games.
I'm guessing it's going to be a French flag as soon as they have the French version of the site ready to go.
Heh, This should change your mind
Ack... apologies to the God (A.K.A. Warren Spector.). I was of-course intending to curse Harvey Smith.
People that believe in their opinions don't post AC.
If you like the Thief series, you will enjoy Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. It has the same blend of suspense/action.
Warren Spector said in an IGN video interview there would be no steam-powered robots. He said it wiht a tone of voice that suggested that he realized it was a bad idea in retrospect.
Put bluntly Yes you were to quick to judge.
The best part of the game is that it can be so different to regular FPS. How many FPS give you the option of not killing anyone? And I mean not being able to kill anyone. Combined with a great story which you would have missed with only a bit of game play.
Well, the game was planned for a long, long time. The Thief series was supposed to be a trilogy from the very beginning. We've tangled with the forces of Chaos (the Pagans), and with the forces of Order (the Hammerites/Mechanists), now we're gonna mess with the forces of Balance (the Keepers)...
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
I haven't picked up Max Payne 2, yet, and I sincerely hope this is not the case.
It's exactly the same as the first one, which is either good or bad depending on what you're expecting. There's some witty dialog, but a lot of it sounds forced, and some of the funniest parts (like the TV episodes) are just run into the ground in the second. It looks exactly the same, and they even reused a couple of the worlds, so that's pretty weak. I won't give away the ending, but ugh. It's a definite renter.
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People can whine about PC version all they want, but if they really want to play some Deus Ex, they should sit down and play it on the Xbox.
A first person shooter? On a console? Do you have any idea how painful that is? Some games work better on consols with controlers - fighting games for example - but it should be a capitol offense to release a first person shooter on any system that doens't come with a keyboard and mouse.
meaning your Xbox will look as good as the version running on a 3,000$ USD computer!
Who spends 3,000$ US on a computer and then runs it out to a television? You have obviously never done a side by side comparison between a game running on a television & a game running on a computer monitor. Even if use the same source driving them both, the television is severly limited in resolution. But if you think 480x240 is sharp as 1600x1200 I suggest you go and talk to your optometrist.
I'll bite on this one:
It's the Unreal Engine.
And for the ambience of Doom III with gore and screams toned down -- Try Thief I.
AFAIK, Its a fairly extensively modified version of the UT2003 engine.
Thief 1 & 2 were powered by their own engine, I think it was called "The Dark Engine".
thief 1 you could kill....
It depended on the level and the difficulty setting and on what you wanted to kill. If you were burgling a house or something like that then at the higher difficulty levels it generally required you to do a clean job i.e. no murders.