Thief: Deadly Shadows (read: Thief 3) is out, with demo

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Fri May 28, 2004 7:09 pm

Picked this up the other day. After my initial hesitations about the controls and graphics, the game does seem to have grown on me. It's just like Thief, just updated graphics and new missions and such.

But if you aren't willing to buy the game based on that alone, check out the demo.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83491
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/thief3 ... k.exe.html
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5021

You need a really beefy machine to play it, and a card that supports Pixel Shaders 1.1 (i.e. no GF2 or GF4 MX). Also a word of warning, the mouse feels really laggy, although you'll see why and probably adapt.

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Fri May 28, 2004 9:16 pm

I just got on FilePlanet without having to wait in line at all (not that I'm a special member), and with my download speed conveniently maxed out, I should have it pretty soon.

Thanks for the heads-up, Tetrad, I've been waiting for this one!

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:40 am

Ok, the FilePlanet Demo seems to be corrupted (at least the free East Coast server). I have downloaded it twice and gotten the same error during install (about some file being corrupted). Off to one of these other sites...

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:05 pm

Try 3d Gamers. Its the (almost) best anti-gamespy site on the net.

Im downloading the demo since all of the other retail stores (Best Buy, Circuit City) dont have it till a month after release.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sat May 29, 2004 1:19 pm

the lock picking needs work.

I understand the mechanism, but the visual indicator is next to useless.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Sun May 30, 2004 5:13 pm

So far I am very pleased and its a nice improvement over IW, though their design choices for the game engine still shows its flaws in the form of load zones, but its not as annoying as IW. The things I miss will be the video intros as well as the really large levels. And what I found annoying was most of the voice acting other than Benny's seem very "Americanized".

Other than that and its console inspired flaws and annoyances, its pritty damn good. Now the only hope is that it will sell enough copys to warrent an SDK and were set, but with Eidos going the way of Interplay that could still be impossible. *SIGH*

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:49 pm

Size : 447,583,019 bytes

WTFOMGARGH. what the hell is it with the insane amount of textures in games. in soviet russia, textures... uh...
bah forget it.

edit: oh i remember my point! does any of the theif series have interesting intuitive sword swinging action, anything like Die By The Sword?

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Sun May 30, 2004 11:12 pm

roid wrote:what the hell is it with the insane amount of textures in games.

Heh, the funny thing is that I think the textures in the game are rather low-res, which makes sense considering the target platform is the Xbox. A lot of the space is also taken up by sounds, as Garret says a few things, and there is a decent amount of NPC noises and random talking.

Edit: and I wouldn't be surprized at all if the demo included all 5 intro movies. Probably for contractual obligations of some sort.

edit: oh i remember my point! does any of the theif series have interesting intuitive sword swinging action, anything like Die By The Sword?

You don't get a sword in Thief 3. It was replaced with a dagger. The entire point of the game wasn't trying to do things by force anyway. Thief 2 did have a sword, but I don't remember it being useful at all, even on normal difficulty. Much better to use things like flash/gas grenades and run into shadows.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:47 pm

"Thief: Deadly Shadows is not supported on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows Server 2003."

about time they see the light and how bad 9x really is

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:49 pm

erm, Warlock, they have 9x listed there (98). XP is the one they didn't list.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:13 pm

Right, those being the list of OS's not supported, which is a strange way of going about it nonetheless. They're probably meaning to say that Win2k and XP are the OS's that ARE supported. Still, it probably doesn't mean that they won't run it, since, it should at least run on Win2k3, even though it was listed as "not supported."

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:47 pm

oh hmm... in that case, why didn't they list Win95 or Win 3.1 as unsupported?

You'd think they'd just list the supported OS's...

Asrale · Post by **Asrale** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:43 pm

Top Wop wrote:Im downloading the demo since all of the other retail stores (Best Buy, Circuit City) dont have it till a month after release.

I saw it today at Wal-Mart while picking up and putting back the Spider-Man Deluxe DVD (saw the additional "special" features were not that at all).

Going to wait for reviews, if it's great I'll add it to my list of games to get for my next desktop later this year or early 2005.

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:32 am

well i got to play the demo and damn i like it.

i think its alot better than the 1st and 2nd one, i just hope they dont do like the 1st one have u fight demons and stuff

just keep it to robbing people

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:05 pm

Unfortunately they made it to be more like the first one, but supposedly its still good.

Lothar: It DOES work for windows 98 based on some accounts ive heard. It just means that you wont get support for it.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:26 pm

TW, I don't care what OS's it's supported on, or runs on (I don't think I'm interested in the game anyway.) That's not the point...

I just think it's funny that they gave a list of which OS's it's NOT supported on. It would be shorter AND more accurate to say "it's supported on XP and 2K" than "it's not supported on 98, ME, NT, 95, CE, 3.1, DOS, Linux, IRIX, AIX, BSD, MacOS, OS/2, BeOS, Solaris, [blah blah blah blah], and PTMC_OS."

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:07 pm

They possibly listed those non-supported OS's with the intention of saying that, although the game will usually run on them, they are not supported, distinguishing them from Win 3.11, DOS, etc., where there's no chance the game would run at all.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:20 pm

Lothar wrote:I just think it's funny that they gave a list of which OS's it's NOT supported on.

Yes, it's an issue of support, i.e. money. The box also says it's not supported on laptop computers. Of course it can run on a laptop with the requisite hardware and OS requirements, but they choose not to support it, and explicitely state that so that they can avoid having to answer questions regarding said hardware and/or OS.