![]() ![]() The main reason for this isn’t only for accessing certain portals to district sections, but due to the City Watch now going in groups of two in many areas so you can no longer simply bop them and dump them out of the way (spoilsports!). There are few discernable landmarks in such a hastily constructed sprawl, especially above ground level, and much of your moving about has to be done over rooftop passageways and beams to cut through houses. The new City is realistic to a depressing degree for the period. Much of this has to be done not through the traditional gates, but via cutting through houses via those glowing blue window you discover is a portal only when the game switches to another load screen, with a handy game tip while you wait but in a font so small and blurred to be barely readable in the short time snap allotted to view. Learning how to get from one side of the city to another is the toughest part of the game. All he wants is to piece together the missing twelve months of his life, which means naturally he is once again doomed to find himself taking centre-stage in City politics. Garrett as always wants nothing to do with local politics. In the void of despair a rabble rouser called Orion and his messianic Graven followers promise to overthrow the City’s ruling class and cure those suffering from the Gloom which has defied what primitive medical expertise exists. The City is ripe for rebellion: whilst the poor starve and die in the gutters and crowded shanty shacks, the wealth and powerful have time to spend on luxuries and in the decadence of Madame Xiao Xiao’s House Of Blossoms’ pleasure house. Those not dead starve for bread and work, the only two major sources of employment being stealing or being a member of the Watch out to stop them. Even the more tyrannical of rules cannot control the bane of all cities – a pandemic – and the once over-crowded poverty stricken city has seen hundreds daily dying of The Gloom, their bodies hauled away by the cartload to be processed on a production line in ghastly Auschwitzian manner into candles and more sinister items besides. Trouble for him is the iron’s starting to crack. The Hammerites, Pagans and Keepers are all gone, the City having outgrown them and in their place is the materialist iron thumb of Baron Northfleet. Spending so much of the game clambering about the rooftop, the player will get a first class view of this, as about everything above ground floor level has been ramshackle hammered together (often on top of existing stone structures) with nails and wood for speed. Even the pretty fountain of South Quarter has been demolished to make way for ‘progress’. Times have changed: the early modern feel The City had before (circa our own 17th century) has jumped forward to a steampunk early industrial sprawl, the mixture of old fashion torches with more modern street sconces and electric lights from street to street no matter what the district showing this advancement to have been fairly rapid, and those who remember Thief: Deadly Shadows with affection may mourn what The City has become. Garrett is stil the master thief with the funny right eye, stuck in The City trying to piece together his life after twelve months has been blanked out of his memory, the last of which he remembers was being responsible for his brash and rash protégé Erin being killed after stealing her climbing claw during a job in order to teach her a practical lesson on stealth, falling onto a bunch of worshippers whose ceremony they messed up big time as they conjoured up… something. Here’s my own thoughts and impressions.įirst the basic plot without giving too much away With Thief: Deadly Shadows being one of my all time favourite games, I was always going to give this one a try. Released at the tail end of February this year, reviewers and fans alike either loved it or hated it. It all depends who you ask, and seldom has a game so divided opinions before it was even released (except, perhaps, Sims 4). There’s been a lot written about the long overdue release of Thief 4, which became a reboot of the Thief series altogether. ![]()
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