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Fanmade Thief 2 Expansion Released
Anonymous writes "After 5 years of development, the fan-made Thief 2X has finally been released. It's an expansion for the now-defunct Through the Looking Glass's Thief 2, and it's free. It features 13 new missions, new weapons, new items, and a new heroine. A trailer is also available." From the site: "On May 25th, 2000, Looking Glass Studios closed its doors. The makers of intelligent first-person, story-driven games would no longer give us such immersive and harrowing experiences as we found in System Shock and Thief. Shortly thereafter, a group of designers, artists, writers, and audio talents joined to form TTLG's Dark Engineering Guild. If LGS wasn't going to make another Thief game, someone else would have to..."
Thief isn't gone. There's a Thief 3. I love this game.
will be very happy. On another note, they did make some pretty good games. System shock was badass, at least I remember it being, seeing as I haven't played it a long time. Its cool to see people that like games so much make their own expansion even after a company is belly-up.
Quoting from "Legal Disclaimer.txt":
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Thief2X: Shadows of the Metal Age and the Dark Engineering Guild are not affiliated with Eidos Interactive, Looking Glass Studios, or Ion Storm. Thief2X is a fan made expansion made using the tools generously donated to the fan community by Eidos Interactive and Looking Glass Studios.
Distribution of Thief2X: Shadows of the Metal Age is encouraged so long as the mod remains free and intact. You may not profit from or receive any compensation from the Thief2X mod or any products or merchandise bearing the Thief2X logo or The Dark Engineering Guild logo. Thief2X: Shadows of the Metal Age and any future affiliated goods must remain free in accordance with the legal standards set forth by Eidos Interactive, as described in the Thief 2: The Metal Age user agreement and the DromEd toolset user agreement.
You may not alter the Thief2X mod and redistribute it. This includes, but is not limited to, changing or altering game files or game content. You may not redistribute Thief2X: Shadows of the Metal Age with any files missing, including cutscenes and briefing movie files. You may not include any Thief2X resources in any fan mission package, but you may create fan missions specifically for Thief2X using the Thief2X resources.
Thief2X: Shadows of the Metal Age is copyright 2005 to the Dark Engineering Guild.
Also, I've been playing it for a while. Considering the outdated engine, they did a good job, and the game's atmosphere has been done awesomely, too. Definite retail quality. Definite download material if you're a Thief 2 fan, IMHO.
Looking Glass Studios is gone, although many of the employees did wind up working for Ion Storm Austin on Thief 3.
Big congrats to the the T2X team though, who started all this back when we weren't sure there'd be a T3. I look forward to playing this (and the Circle of Stone and Shadow, if that's ever finished....)
I find the Thief series redefined what a FPS could be. The game had many things that made it unique. For one, you couldn't just attack a whole army of soldier, because you were guaranteed to get killed.
It also rewarded you for just sneaking around, stealing and not getting caught. At the time, it was the only game in the FPS category that you could complete without killing anyone. Even now, I haven't seen a game where you could do that.
The one thing that disappointed me the most was that no one else got into the thief genre. Once the company went belly up, I haven't seen a game that created the same tense, yet immersive environment that Thief 1 and 2 (haven't played 3).