Third-Person Thief III [Jan 22, 2004, 4:59 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Game That
Pioneered Stealth in Gaming Reemerges in Eidos and Ion Storm's Thief: Deadly
Shadows is the press release announcing the addition of a third-person
perspective option in the upcoming installment in the stealthy Thief series. The
announcement is accompanied by
a few screenshots showing off the new point of view. Here's a bit:
In Thief: Deadly Shadows, gamers will be able to play in either third person or first person perspectives, and shift seamlessly between each on the fly. The new third person perspective will further immerse players into the role of Garret [sic] -- the master Thief. Sneaking through darkly lit environments, stealing riches and ambushing unwary targets in third person presents a new, visceral gaming experience to the Thief franchise. Still, the tension fuelled gameplay in classic Thief first person view is there for returning fans of the series and newcomers alike. Ion Storm's trademark dynamic lighting and shadow technology manifests in Thief: Deadly Shadows new levels of depth and tension to the game's environments. Characters and objects cast real shadows that effect stealth gameplay, requiring the player to manipulate darkness and light to create your own shadows to hide in.
Build a monument or let it die a Hero.
Jan 24, 2004, 02:05
Jan 24, 2004, 02:05
Perhaps this will help clear things up for, what I assume to be, the younger posters. Do you see threads like this for every bad game or every bad port, no of course not, you want to make a bad xbox\PC port game, fine go right ahead call it Shadow Sneaker: BoBo the Thief, but don’t mess up an Icon from a different age. When the Thief games came out, video games weren’t nearly as mainstream as they are today; PC gamers were a tiny, tiny crowd. It was almost like Interplays slogan “By Gamers for Gamers” (Well, till they shut down Black Isle, die you bastards.), They made games they would be proud to put their name on, they didn’t sell out if Microsoft accidentally air-dropped bags of money on their door stop, certain things don’t work on certain systems, I almost puke when I think of what the Baldurs Gate series would be like on the xbox. Did Thief set sell through records, no it sure didn’t, but I don’t know any PC gamer that doesn’t speak of Thief with much due reverence when comparing it to a lot of shit out there today, or perhaps like when a relative dies, you realize how much for granted you took them and how much you miss what you didn’t even know you had. Maybe I am elitist in my thinking, and maybe DX:IW is a okay xbox game (it is a terrible PC game no matter what), but it sure as hell isn’t the game I skipped Calculus to play. If I had billions of dollars I would buy Black Isle, Looking Glass, Westwood and the like, they would make small niche games nobody buys and I would be the happiest gamer around. Remember it is market size, you want as big a piece of the pie as possible, and yes, they dumb down games to get it, I know nothing about cooking, my sister went to culinary school, you better believe a salesmen would have a harder time selling a gee wiz-bang frying pan to my sister who knows a good pan from a bad pan then to me, who he could sell a hub cab and call it the second coming. I know what Thief II did and what Thief 3 can do, and I hope to God Ion Storm does too.
O, yeah I loved playing a 2 yr old console game that made my $3,500, top of the line, I-don't-have-a-girlfriend PC almost melt.
--Zepher (referencing Halo)
O, yeah I loved playing a 2 yr old console game that made my $3,500, top of the line, I-don't-have-a-girlfriend PC almost melt.
--Zepher (referencing Halo)
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