Definitely a great game. It managed to combine the action of a first person shooter with a strong and compelling story-line. But what I liked most about it was the ambiance and atmosphere. You could just feel the decadence of the noblemen's mansions, the emptiness of long forgotten ruins, and the malice lurking in ancient tombs. Many of the levels were very frightening, and games don't scare me easily.
It was also nice in that there was almost always more than one way to surmount any obstacle or best any foe you came across -- stealth, speed, distraction, evasion, brute force, etc. And brute force was usually the worst option to choose.
All in all, Thief and Thief 2 have to be my favorite single player games. There are a couple of examples of bad level design in them, but then there are plenty of good levels that more than make up for the bad ones. Worth buying if you've never played them before, especially since they're more than old enough to be in the bargain bin.
I think I occasionally spent way too much staying up at night playing the game, and becoming sleep deprived. The next day I would have an embarrassing, almost unconscious urge to walk close to walls and seek out shadows,:)
Isn't Thief 3 supposed to be coming out sometime, or has that been cancelled? I wonder if it will be any good. I wonder if any of the same people that created Thief are working on it, given that Looking Glass went under long ago.
It isn't surprising, of course, that people will post trolls like this from time to time. But what is surprising is how many people seem utterly incapable of recognizing them -- even glaringly obvious (and actually somewhat funny) ones like post I'm replying to.
It is quite disappointing to see how many people took it completely literally. And how many people even bothered to correct the author's intentional mistakes, or deride his purposefully outlandish claims (and condescendingly lecture us all about the completely obvious truth in the process).
Now that takes a person with a combination of two things: (1) a near complete inability to read for comprehension, and (2) a highly inflated sense of his own intellect. That is one truly sad combination.
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It was also nice in that there was almost always more than one way to surmount any obstacle or best any foe you came across -- stealth, speed, distraction, evasion, brute force, etc. And brute force was usually the worst option to choose.
All in all, Thief and Thief 2 have to be my favorite single player games. There are a couple of examples of bad level design in them, but then there are plenty of good levels that more than make up for the bad ones. Worth buying if you've never played them before, especially since they're more than old enough to be in the bargain bin.
I think I occasionally spent way too much staying up at night playing the game, and becoming sleep deprived. The next day I would have an embarrassing, almost unconscious urge to walk close to walls and seek out shadows, :)
Isn't Thief 3 supposed to be coming out sometime, or has that been cancelled? I wonder if it will be any good. I wonder if any of the same people that created Thief are working on it, given that Looking Glass went under long ago.
*sigh*
It isn't surprising, of course, that people will post trolls like this from time to time. But what is surprising is how many people seem utterly incapable of recognizing them -- even glaringly obvious (and actually somewhat funny) ones like post I'm replying to.
It is quite disappointing to see how many people took it completely literally. And how many people even bothered to correct the author's intentional mistakes, or deride his purposefully outlandish claims (and condescendingly lecture us all about the completely obvious truth in the process).
Now that takes a person with a combination of two things: (1) a near complete inability to read for comprehension, and (2) a highly inflated sense of his own intellect. That is one truly sad combination.
One really and truly sad combination.