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Review: Thief (PS4)

Added: 27.02.2014 15:32 | 31 views | 0 comments

Call of Snoop-y.

Eidos Montreal’s Thief sits somewhere between those two camps. This is a handsome offering, with fluid first-person stealth through a gorgeously-lit approximation of an 19th century English city called, imaginatively, The City. It’s a gloomy and restrictive pseudo open-world, like Dishonored’s Dunwall without the character, and is largely segregated into corridors and alleyways, shuffling hooded antihero Garrett between missions.

The missions – thefts, basically – are where the game harkens back to its roots, offering greater scope for varied approaches as you creep...