Thief: The Dark Project is a single player stealth-based game made by Looking Glass Studios for Microsoft Windows PCs and published in 1998 by Eidos Interactive. The player takes the role of Garrett, a master thief plying his trade in an unnamed city. Garrett posesses great thieving and stealth skills, including an almost preternatural ability to hide in shadows. These skills come partly from his growing up as a street urchin and from his later education with the secret society known as The Keepers. The game follows Garrett as he clashes with the powerful and embarks on a journey into the City's strange history, stirring up more than he bargained for.
One of my all-time favorites. Really cool ninja-like stealth-sneaking!! It's a great challenge to try to sneak in and out without knocking anyone out or even get noticed.
The only drawback is the low AI when they discovered you. I hoped this to get fixed in the second part, but unfortunately they included more "features" instead. The second part is still good, but not as genius as this one! This is a MUST HAVE! PLUS: There are excellent "Gold Missions" available, mods from the community, some of those missions even excel the best of the missions which came shipped with the game!
And Garret is cool! :)
I will always remember the feeling of dread and intrusion while lurking in the halls of Lord Baffords' Manor or when skulking around the haunted Cragscleft mines, I have never felt so immersed and thunderfelt in a game before (Only S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ever came close to replicating this feeling). I truly believe this game, in all of its faculties, is a high work of art.
A must play period.
Thief 1 and 2 are legendary games and (along with Metal Gear Solid) gave birth to the stealth genre of games. Thief 1 and 2 though are far superior with some of the most incredible technology developed in its time (and even still today) to provide the greatest stealth game experience. Still today, these games are essentially unmatched in the simulation capabilities, atmosphere, intricacy and gameplay uniqueness. Just legendary games through and through.
Impresive game even today, but the sequel is much better.
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A masterpiece. A fundamental part of the Golden Age of the Immersive Sim triunvirate (alongside System Shock 2 and Deus Ex).
Redefines what immersion in a game should be.
The first really good stealth game set up in a really dark but amazing world. Every mission brings something new to the gameplay and thanks to how many ways there are to accomplish your goal the replayability is extreme.
While the graphics certainly aged somewhat they still look decent enough and the amazing mappers community have created enough missions for this game to keep all Thiefs occupied for a few months.