Thief Gets Mixed Reviews

Thief was supposed to be one of the first big new-gen titles, but it appears it’s ended up underwhelming. A variety of major sites have finally released reviews ahead of the game’s launch this week, and nobody was entirely happy with their time stalking the streets as master thief Garret.

There’s enough positivity that nobody excited for the game should be entirely put off. Almost with exception, the stealth mechanics have been massively praised. It’s just that nothing ever comes of it. Uninteresting environments and poor AI seem to mean that the adventure doesn’t build up to what the gameplay would have made possible. Many even mentioned the similar Dishonored as a superior, more memorable title, and one that manages to out-Thief Thief.

Current Metacritic scores sit at around the high sixties, low seventies, a score that puts it way behind the last big Square Enix refresh, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Scores are very mixed within platforms as well, with the highest on PC being 86, and the lowest being 51. Lower scorers seem put off by the lack of any specific focus, as though, as one reviewer at AusGamers puts it, the studio “spent so much time trying to make a game for all kinds of people that it forgot to execute any single part of the experience perfectly”

Thief is out on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC this week.