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.

Comments

The original game was cool

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm hoping Thief 3 will be more like Thief 1 than Thief 2. Thief 2's medieval-magical-industrial-robotic setting didn't really work, not to mention the fact that being able to throw your eye around corners is a bit ... odd.

Re:The original game was cool

[osu-neko]

Eh? Thief 1 and 2 were set in the same world, with people running around in chainmail and using swords, while steam powered machines and electric lights buzzed away. Granted, the Mechanists in Thief 2 brought the industrial parts of the game setting more to the forefront, but the series was always fantasy "steam-punk". Thief 3 will have the same setting as well, but with Karras and the Mechanists out of the way, there will be no steam-powered robots, so it will be a bit more like Thief 1 in that respect. As for throwing your eye around corners, I hope you'll still be able to do that. I mean, Garrett went through a lot in Theif 1 to get that artificial eye, it'd be a shame if he couldn't still get some benefit out of it...

Thief changed my perspective on FPS

[NeuroKoan]

When FPS games first came out, I wasn't nearly as stoked as my friends. Sure, I found playing Doom mildly entertaining, but it never gripped me as much as RPG/Adventure games.

Thief changed all of that. I bought the original Thief and instantly fell in love; it brought an entirely new dimension to a genre I felt was rather repetitive and boring. It also opened me up to trying other FPS games that I probably wouldn't have tried without my positive experience with Thief.

I probably haven't bought a computer game in 2 or 3 years (except for Deus Ex: Invisible War), but you can bet I'll be first in line when Thief 3 comes out.

Bah

[Anonymous Coward]

This spring Thief 3 (Thief: Deadly Shadows) is being released by the same guys who recently gave us Deus Ex: Invisible War.

That's not a good thing, seeing how botched Deus Ex: Invisible War was (especially compared to the original). Hopefully Harvey Smith has nothing to do with Thief 3.

Some info..

[rffmna]

the site is hosted over at Times Warner. The network pipes CANT be overloaded, but the server can be overloaded..but not likely.
whois says it was created Thu, Mar 23, 2000, so they had been planning for 4 years, at least.

Shhh.... Don't draw attention to it!

[Psychotext]

If Ion have got any sense whatsoever they will not draw attention to the fact that the developers of Thief 3 have anything to do with the developers that made DX:IW. Most of us that were fans of the original Thief games are praying that Warren stayed the hell away from the Thief team and let them get on with it. That, or we're going to end up with unified arrows. Grrr.

Still, the screenshots look great and I'm really hoping that they pull this one out of the bag.

Re:The question is...

[Psychotext]

That reminds me of the GTA advertising. They set up a huge billboard with cameras all around it and encouraged people to "Steal this game". I didn't ever see the footage being used, but it seemed like a pretty clever idea at the time.

Re:Hmm..

[visgoth]

Truely you have hit the nail on the head. I have no faith in them after the debacle that was DX2. The removal of the skill system, unified ammo, and other asinine design descisions has left a bad taste in my mouth.