What was your opinion of Thief 3, I'm planning on going back to it sometime soon just cos I want to play the Shalebridge Cradle mission for massive freakoutage.
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It's a good game, but, don't get me wrong I'm still a massive fan of the game, it's gameplay just didn't stand up to it's predecessors, or even the later Splinter Cells. The story is great, their sticking to canon is impressive and the storyflow is awesome, music is beyond compare since they had Eric Brosius on board and the art direction is rich and beautiful, but the game itself is meh. I just couldn't play it like Thief 1 and 2. It wasn't even near as fluid and organic as the gameplay of those two masterpieces. And I really missed the huge open levels of them. Thief 3 just felt like a bad console port, no matter how much they had raped the Flesh engine to use shadows and their superior AI and sound system.
A real pity that, but what can you do. It would have been interesting to see Ion Storm's iteration of Thief 4, since they had concept art ready and that was some good stuff, but alas IS is gone now.