Theif is so much Fun!
I finally got around to playing thru the demo on Sunday.
It's got so much to do, you'll love it! You can use rope
arrows that allow you to climb up the rope to the next
floor to get thru a window, instead of taking guarded
stairs to get the jump on your opponents. There is
great sword fight, bow&arrow controls, and plenty of
climbing, jumping, swimming, ducking, not the annoying
type of TR3, just enough to get you there. There is a
limited map feature, quicksave, and you can look around
corners with your head, so the guards don't see you. After
you finish the mission, you can play it all over again,
and try to kill as few, or as many guards as possible.
I played it the second time by knocking out each gaurd
and locking them in a room that requires a key to open.
It was funny every time I opened the door to dump another
unconsious guard in, all the ones that had already woken
up try to come after, but by then I had closed & locked.
When I played it the third time, I killed ALL the
guards, which is HARD, because you have to lure them
away from each other by getting them to investigate
distracting sound you make coming from another direction.
Once most or all are dead, you'll have free raign of
the place, to check every nook and cranny for treasure
and secrets, that illude to future missions of theft.
If you have one of those fancy sound systems on your
PC, you're really gonna love this game. I'm even
thinking of buying Theif instead of Heretic2, since
it's gameplay is so refreshingly different then your
typical shoot'em'up. I have no doubt that Heretic is
a much more beautiful game graphically, and having both
weapons and spells at your disposal makes for much more
variety of play then most Quake2, but Theif's got an
interesting twist to it. Oh, what's also nice in Theif
is you can buy more weapons and ammunition between missions
with the gold you steal. Anyone know if Eidos is gonna
distribute MYTH-2? I was a BIG fan of MYTH last year.
MYTH-2 looks great, but if you have the first one,
it's just more of the same, like TR3 is to TR2... |
