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Re: Thief 3 : more comments

mardi <e...@mail.com>

> http://streamingmovies.ign.com/xbox/thief3_041604_07_wmvlow.wmv

> Firstly:

> Who the hell sanctioned the release of this footage? It looks like a 3 year
> old was playing it and confused it for Unreal Tournament. No sneaking,
> missing from 3 feet away with the bow, constant use of gas & fire arrows.
> Bouncing off walls.

I agree, nice move where he/she ran over 2 of thier own mines :P

This person went in rambo style but the game can be played as the player
feels like. This footage may have been made to show the xbox ADD yung'uns
that you don't 'have' to play the stealth angle, which kinda sucks, imho.
What bugs me is that this player has 20 flash bombs, 3 gas bombs, 5 oil
flasks, 10 health potions, 40 broadhead arrows, 18 water arrows, 9 moss
arrows, 4 noisemakers and then later in the footage he has 8 fire arrows.
Wheres the challenge in 'using what you have when necessary' if you have
everything? I wonder if they loaded this person up with this stuff before
they started or will normal play be like that?

I've been reading about a 'town' part where you go in between missions to
buy, sell and steal stuff. I wonder if you wanted to you could stay there
until you have enough (too many) supplies to start the next mission.

> American accents? Totally out of place. Haven't cringed as much since
> Costner played Robin Hood.

> Combat? Yeah, dumbed down alright : you'd need to be dumb to want to play
> this game. In part of the footage a gas arrow blinds a guard "Oh my god I'm
> blinded". He then procedes to run straight at you. Two arrows to the face
> and he still attacks hitting you with his sword before wandering off again.
> Terrible.

You forgot "imo" there, just because you think it's going to be bad doesn't
mean that anyone who plays it is dumb. Everyone enjoys different games. I
watched it twice and I didn't see any gas arrows used, just moss, fire and
broadheads.

I've been playing the origianl games again and when a guard is in an
'alerted mode' it can take 6-7 broadheads to kill them. I'm noticing 3-4 in
this footage. Disappointing.

> What the hell has been done to this game? I was *so* looking forward to it
> and despite the naysayers was sure it would be great. So far, from this
> footage, it looks like total garbage.

Why do you make an opinion of a game based on some shitty playing in one
video? Wait for the demo, play it yourself and then decide, imho.

> BTW, no aiming reticule in 3rd person mode?

I'm sure the majority of die hard Thief fans won't be playing in 3rd person
mode...