1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Thief II - The Metal Age, 2002-02-17
Thief II The metal age is a first person sneaker with a great single player gameplay. Set in a fantasy world you play Garrett a master thief. Thief had a great story and fantastic ending, Thief2's story is a quite silly but there are lots of twists in the plot and the cutsence avi movies are great. The gameplay is superb you need to sneak your way through the levels by staying in the shadows and avoiding full frontal combat. The atmosphere is also superb as most of the missions take place at night and it is very creepy. The level desinging is superb, The 15 missions in are very large and the objectives will be hard to complete, In one level you cant kill anyone, In another you cant blackjack anyone, In another you need to finish without any conferntations with the locals. But the game will be very easy once you have learnt how to sneak, i have complteted the game on the expert difficulty without any problems. Missions like the life of the party and trial of blood can be played over and over again. But i miss the zombie and haunts missions of the first game. Enemy AI is very impressive the gaurds react well to every little sounds. New villans are not good, i did like the robotic gaurds, It is hard to belive that anyone would keep a giant robo cop which shoots cannon balls at intruders in their posh mansion. Try to get thief version 1.07 because it will give you a great replay value. The mission maps in the unpatched version and the patched version are quite different. Buy 1.07 play it and then patch it to 1.18 and replay it again with slightly different mission.Thief2 is built on the modified dark engine, i played it on the Direct3D video mode and the game runs very well. T2 looks a lot better than the first game, Graphics are not great but more than enough. The levels are very long but the game loads and saves data very quickly. Sound recording is very good, Voice acting also is superb but the main villan karas needs a throat surgery. The sound can be annoying at times as the villans keep talking all the time. Gaurds and the small robots will keep on saying nonsence that it may force you to send a couple of arrows to shut them up. Thief II is a good sequal to thief but not as good as the first, Though it has some of the best thief missions like Life of the party. Thief Dark Project was like a medival horror game with zombies, But t2 has went far away from that story to sci friction. Still it is worthy of your money thief serries games are one of the best out there. Finally though there is not an expansion pack, Thief games have got a lot of fan made add on missions and most of them are well made and a lot of fun to play like benny's dead and smuggler request for example, Go to eidos thief forums to get them, you will surely love them.
 This game lacks....everything!, 2001-08-27
I purchased this games based upon Eidos' sight that listed, among other features, that this game was multiplayer, via various methods. I purchased the game, it arrived, and no multiplayer!!!! I am so angry...would have been much better had they really included that aspect of gameplay. As far as the game goes, the missions are just simply "weak." It is no wonder that Looking Glass went under, when one puts out a product as bad as Thief II, it is just no wonder.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 These guys know what they are doing, 2001-08-19
Well, after playing thief, I reply this game, for people who ask "What is the best game you have ever played?". Thief is a classic, and it is not a game for faint hearted "Half-life /counter-strike" people. The game is not designed for people who run around madly with a blazing gun, dying every 10 seconds.. You have to wait, you have to look, you have to be witty and quiet while playing the game... You can turn off torches by firing a water arrow, and you can sneak through the darkness you created.. Walking on metal ground attracts guards, while walking on a carpet is the ultimate way of sneaking.. After playing this game , I am no longer afraid of darkness; as darkness will be your only ally..
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Shocking, 2001-06-26
Honestly, I expected this game to be a cheap sequel. Ofttimes companies try to create a sequel in hopes that they will have the same luck and success which turns out pretty lame (Donkey Kong Country 3, Riven, Austin Powers 2). Often the storyline is almost exactly the same with all the same graphics, techniques, and (in Austin's case) the same jokes. (Yes, I know there are no jokes in Thief) I was surprised that the storyline actually flows quite well from the original game to this one, providing a very interesting plot. The security system is excellent, the guards are much smarter, and the lighting system is much improved as well. The levels are much more complex, with many new textures and guards (note the racial and female integration in this game). There are many different ways to beat each level, whereas in Thief, there is usually only one or two routes. I really liked how this game didn't have a whole level full of undead creatures (there were 3 in the original) Down in the Bonehoard (Level 3 in thief) got pretty monotonous. The gameplay is very smooth (unless you have an Intel 82810E graphics card), and the game overall is very enthralling and I think that anyone who's a serious gamer should buy this game (after beating thief, of course). (As with thief, if you're one of those Shoot-em-up action fans, this game is probably requires a bit too much thinking for you.)
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
A Great Strategy Game, 2001-06-17
When purchasing this game, I was excited. I even got faster shipping (somtheing I rarely do!). When it came i installed it. It was a quik install with no problems. I started playing it and I wasted 2 weekends playing it (gettin only 4 hours of sleep each night while playing). If you love strategy games, I have to say that this is a must have! The only problems I found with it is that some of the levels are a bit to difficult to beat. That is why I am giving it 4 stars.
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