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Thief: The Dark Project by Looking Glass / Eidos Interactive Review by Vajra
Chandrasekera
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If you’re like most everyone else, you’re probably
tired of running around in miscellaneous virtual environments shooting
everything in sight. Thief: The Dark Project is undeniably a first person
action game- fortunately, it is also part of the Renaissance that appears
to be taking place in the said genre. Note we can no longer label these
games “first person shooters”. If anything, games like Thief would have
to be called “first person sneakers”, (even though it makes them sound
like some ghastly form
of footwear) because the principle behind this
game is specifically not killing everything in sight. In the
first place, you play as a thief, not as a walking
arsenal, and your opponents are liable to be better armed than you In the
second place, getting into brawls (and getting killed as a result) will
not allow you to complete your mission, which (what with you being a thief
and all) generally involves stealing something. Stealth is the key -stealth
and cunning. And with those words, we have sounded the death-knell of the
classical first person action game...and we can hear, in the echo, the
promise of far greater things to come.
Published by Eidos Interactive, perhaps best known
for Lara Croft and the three Tomb Raider games, and developed by Looking
Glass, Thief: The Dark Project is a new-generation first person action
game set in an early- industrial era, a smooth meld of magic and medievalism.
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