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Thief: Deadly Shadows (Xbox) | 
 enlarge | From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 3685
Platform: Xbox
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 15 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5032921020626
ASIN: B000246EHC
Release Date: June 11, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The third entry in arguably the most under-appreciated series of stealth games on the market, Thief: Deadly Shadows maintains the high standards of its predecessors, and offers some extremely tense gaming in the process. The concept is pretty much the same as usual. You take on the role of a master thief in medieval times, who must pull off a series of missions--covering thefts, the odd assassination and combat--while gradually uncovering a darker, overriding secret. This all underpins a game structure that sees you taking on tasks of gradually increasing difficulty, as you seek to evade guards, sneak through the shadows and pick a few locks for good measure. Along the way, you'll also find yourself making use of your arsenal of tools, be it to create a distraction to get a guard out of the way, or to extinguish some of the lights that would otherwise give away your presence. All of this takes place in one of the most atmospheric game worlds out there, and, mixed with some terrific work on the audio side, it's utterly engrossing stuff. Few games get anywhere near the tension levels that Thief: Deadly Shadows attains, and few will have you holding your breath quite so often. And there are more ticks in the plus column, too. The game is a lot longer than gamers would have expected before its release, and some of the missions are genuinely exceptional. The only slight downers are that there aren't too many new ideas this time round, and the third-person camera doesn't always work smoothly, which means you're best sticking to a first-person viewpoint. Nonetheless, this doesn't detract from the fact that Thief: Deadly Shadows is an excellent game, and one of the very best stealth titles around. It's easy to get into, packed with surprises, and is pretty much guaranteed to bring you out in a cold sweat when it ratchets up those tension levels. It deserves to be a big hit. --Simon Brew
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 Immersive but has flaws July 8, 2008
Mr. P. G. Shorley-Smith
In Thief:deadly shadows you play a thief called garret who has a mechanical eye and a voice like snake plissken. It is your task to unravel a conspiracy in a nameless city whilst stealing everything you can see to buy more thief tools. most of the time you're in a medieval city but you wander off onto ships full of zombies, the odd manor and underground ruins.
I always rate a game on how immersive it is when I stop playing and in the case of thief:deadly shadows I started to wear hoods, crouched in the shadows and looked for elemental arrows in my garden. This makes up for the certain flaws the game has because I got stuck on the scenery several times whilst playing and sometimes you would see a NPC walk through a bit of a wall. The mother of all flaws is in the south quarter where if you climb up to the prison roof theres nothing there and you end up falling in to purple space but thankfully the designers foresaw this and you die after a short way down.
The main annoyance is the lack of crosshairs which would be a great help in being able to centre your screen on the objects you're tryint to use because most of the time you're waggling the camera around trying to highlight that bit of loot which is in an obscure corner or panickingly trying to open a door or window to get away from persuing guards. Jumping is also an issue, if you're trying to jup out of a window or climp up on to somethign somethine you just end up jumping and allerting any nearby guards which is incredibly annoying.
The thief tools are a diffrent matter, each is highly useful for sneaking about and escaping foes, the only exception being the holy water which is generally uset for killing zombies but useless in any other respect. apart from useable items you can also buy practise locks and a pair of thief gloves which allow you to climb walls like spiderman but I would not advise this as a route of escape because guards will just stand underneath and tell you off as if you were a naughty child up a tree.
What you have to remember about thief is that it's a game based around stealth so you need an element of patience to wait for guards to go past or stop runnng round looking for you. what I don't find entertaining was how I could either kill or nock out everyone in a level and roam freely without anyone respawning or regaining conciousness so basically every mission you can just eliminate any NPCs and loot the place before completing any objectives. The NPCs are quite generic with only key characters looking diffrent. voice acting is also good apart from one guard voice which reminds me of the caveman in spyro 2.
Whilst on your thiefting exploits you have to do things for 2 factions who you seriously annoy at the start of the game from shooting arrows at cornerstones to smiting zombies. these 2 factions are the hammerites and the pagans, the hammerites all dress in red chainmail and carry sledgehammers which they'll readliy use on you if you haven't appeased them enough, they also takl like they're from some twisted version of the bible. the pagans are somewhat diffrent they dress shabily and have an iffinity to nature so basically they're hippies who are all in need of elecution lessons.
Overall thief: deadly shadows is a good game and worth buying but it's one of those xbox games that was originally on pc you'd probably be better off buying the pc version because at times the controls can be clunky especially when you are frntically tapping white to ge the flash bombs up or selecting some water arrows.
 The best game ever!!! February 14, 2008
Christina Hirst (Leeds, UK)
This game is fun, fun, fun! It will entertain you for days and the storyline is really gripping. The graphics are great and the city is amazing. The best buy ever!
Thief - it's a steal! January 23, 2006
M. A. Shore (staffs)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
WOW! Forget Tenchu, buy this game now. What more can be said than the previous reviews? If you like stealth games, this is the ultimate. It's made even better by the lack of modern/futuristic gadgets and weaponary, (it is based in a sort of quasi-medieval city).The previous review mentioning that the game had bugs is DEAD WRONG. There are NO BUGS in this game!! Buy it now!
Fun and Pleasing January 31, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This game provides hours upon days of fun gameplay. BUT, be warned, if you in the market for a more serious stealth game, splinter cell is certainly a better choice. Thief 3 allows you to roam around the city, break into houses, pickpocket, sell your loot, buy stuff, and do missions. The AI is very human like, they sneeze and talk and actually do stuff instead of just standing there. BUT they are also really stupid, which may seem like a bad thing but it actullay makes this game quite fun. Also, the inventory is entertaining and creative. For exmple, you can use a moss arrow to walk on metal without making noise, you can use a water arrow to make the moss grow or to clean up blood, and so on. The amount of detail thought into the game is evident too because of certain things like: certain surfaces make more noise, if doors are left open then someone will notice, and the ever entertaining fact that if two people fight, they wont notice you. The game has an enticing story line that really grips you and through the path of the game you can find notes that will lead you all over the city in search of loot. At the moment, i love thief 3 and i think it'll stay that way for a very long time.
 Good but sets a new standard for bugs January 18, 2005
Will (Essex, UK)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a good game but has one major bug (and one that could be explained why so many find the game so easy). The Xbox version resets the difficulty level to easy every time you save and load a game. So unless you plan to complete the game in one sitting, you will be playing in easy mode for most of the time. There is no way around this, Ion Storm have acknowledged this on their site but don't seem to be able to do anything about it. How something this major slipped past testing is beyond me. You would also have thought they would have fixed this for the PAL release but no. Anyway the game itself is great, the sound is superb and the atmosphere provides incredible tension at times. The levels are small and somewhat linear though and some of the new items such as the climbing gloves leave alot to be desired. The guards AI isn't particulary impressive either, they will often just search the area approx 10 feet and then give up. Level design is often superb but its just a shame it seems so cramped. It's not nearly as good as Thief 1 & 2, but its easily one of the most enjoyable game's on the Xbox to date. Recommended.
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