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Of course, having played T1 and 2 and all those FM's so many times in
the past few years, I feel I could, like some of you guys, call myself
a true blue Thief fanatic... Both Thief 1 and 2 were more or less
identical, just different episodes of the smae continuing saga. It
took me a while to accept the metal mickeys (robots) in T2 but apart
from that, both games were magnetic in their content and I never
wanted to simply quit from having played too much, like I did with
many other games when you simply reach the point of saturation...
Then came T3...
Realizing that T3 was made with other companies involved, I expected
it to be a completely new up-market hyped up game that had little
resemblance to its parent game(s)... It took me a while to get used to
the new bow, then new style blackjack and having a dagger instead of
the good old sword but at some point about a third of the way into the
game, I realized that I no longer dwelled on these points. I simply
played the game as per its original intention. Bits and pieces of the
old game(s) were inserted into this one to remind you of its heritage.
Memorials, statues, tombs were strategically placed to let you know
that T2 was indeed imbedded into T3's roots and that the legacy was
merely continuing, albeit along a slightly different path than before.
Toward the end, I felt T3 wandered a little with old hags and stone
warriors starting to enter the picture but the occult type of feeling
of demons and ghouls were reasonably well done and I guess Garrett
always had a destiny, it's just he had to find it and like all others
who eventually find their destiny, he had to follow the already walked
trail as best he could.
It's a bit of a shame that the games graphics were a letdown,, in that
you had to have a reasonably high spec PC/graphics card to exploit
them. I simply can't see the point of this type of thinking, as many
of us have "ordinary" or "average" PC's and can never really go to
maximum settings in any game and by the time we get a PC which can,
the game is long since out-of-date,, so it's a bit of a shame we
couldn't have seen T3 in all its glory. I feel that may many companies
which realease games of a similar nature, rather let many gameplayers
down by aiming at the top end few... Great graphics and textures are
one thing but actually being able to play the game you just bought is
another issue altogether... Still,, I guess most games face that same
dilema = "better graphics or frame rates"...!!!
One slight issue came to mind with the voice accents and some of the
sayings... I mean, I heard lots of American accents and yet I heard
sayings like "Bloody Hell" which is distinctly British (or at least
non American), right throughout the entire game.. I don't get into
studying games,, I just play them.. I therefore am a bit lost as to
where this Garrett fellow actually comes from and what part of the
world this all takes place in... Still, as I said, it's only a slight
issue,, BUT,, if it was a movie it would be heavily criticised, one
way or the other,, and,, let's face it, computer games are a huge
industry now and games are virtually ineractive movies on your PC, so
maybe they should attempt to get it "more right" next time...
All in all, I got right into the game and found it plenty enjoyable.
Am I glad I went out of my way to find this game at PC shop 20 miles
away - YES...!!!
Overall score...9 out of 10...
What about you guys...???
Of course, having played T1 and 2 and all those FM's so many times in
the past few years, I feel I could, like some of you guys, call myself
a true blue Thief fanatic... Both Thief 1 and 2 were more or less
identical, just different episodes of the smae continuing saga. It
took me a while to accept the metal mickeys (robots) in T2 but apart
from that, both games were magnetic in their content and I never
wanted to simply quit from having played too much, like I did with
many other games when you simply reach the point of saturation...
Then came T3...
Realizing that T3 was made with other companies involved, I expected
it to be a completely new up-market hyped up game that had little
resemblance to its parent game(s)... It took me a while to get used to
the new bow, then new style blackjack and having a dagger instead of
the good old sword but at some point about a third of the way into the
game, I realized that I no longer dwelled on these points. I simply
played the game as per its original intention. Bits and pieces of the
old game(s) were inserted into this one to remind you of its heritage.
Memorials, statues, tombs were strategically placed to let you know
that T2 was indeed imbedded into T3's roots and that the legacy was
merely continuing, albeit along a slightly different path than before.
Toward the end, I felt T3 wandered a little with old hags and stone
warriors starting to enter the picture but the occult type of feeling
of demons and ghouls were reasonably well done and I guess Garrett
always had a destiny, it's just he had to find it and like all others
who eventually find their destiny, he had to follow the already walked
trail as best he could.
It's a bit of a shame that the games graphics were a letdown,, in that
you had to have a reasonably high spec PC/graphics card to exploit
them. I simply can't see the point of this type of thinking, as many
of us have "ordinary" or "average" PC's and can never really go to
maximum settings in any game and by the time we get a PC which can,
the game is long since out-of-date,, so it's a bit of a shame we
couldn't have seen T3 in all its glory. I feel that may many companies
which realease games of a similar nature, rather let many gameplayers
down by aiming at the top end few... Great graphics and textures are
one thing but actually being able to play the game you just bought is
another issue altogether... Still,, I guess most games face that same
dilema = "better graphics or frame rates"...!!!
One slight issue came to mind with the voice accents and some of the
sayings... I mean, I heard lots of American accents and yet I heard
sayings like "Bloody Hell" which is distinctly British (or at least
non American), right throughout the entire game.. I don't get into
studying games,, I just play them.. I therefore am a bit lost as to
where this Garrett fellow actually comes from and what part of the
world this all takes place in... Still, as I said, it's only a slight
issue,, BUT,, if it was a movie it would be heavily criticised, one
way or the other,, and,, let's face it, computer games are a huge
industry now and games are virtually ineractive movies on your PC, so
maybe they should attempt to get it "more right" next time...
All in all, I got right into the game and found it plenty enjoyable.
Am I glad I went out of my way to find this game at PC shop 20 miles
away - YES...!!!
Overall score...9 out of 10...
What about you guys...???
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