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Fanmade Thief 2 Expansion Released

Posted by Zonk on from the stealthy-stealth dept.

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..."

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  1. Thief 3 by DJ_Goldfingerz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thief isn't gone. There's a Thief 3. I love this game.

  2. Er, not defunct.... by jnik · · Score: 3, Informative
    Through the Looking Glass is not defunct. Neither is the Thief series (althought it is arguably complete now.)

    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....)