Thief 2: The Metal Age Full Review

Thief 2: The Metal Age

Developer: Looking Glass Studios

Publisher: Eidos Interactive

Genre: First Person/ Stealth

Release: March 23, 2000

Available: Steam, GamersGate, and GOG

Price: $7-10

Platforms: Windows

Mode: Single-Player

Disclaimer:

-I love stealth games

-I play on the highest difficulty

-I try to be as quiet as possible, but I knock out all enemies I can.

-I'm harsh and picky.

-I'm not a professional journalist.

-Most of my reviews are usually the PC version. I am the PC master race.

-I try to 100% games unless it's pointless or tediously stupid.

-No bribes were taken.

-No bribes were offered.

-I'm a ghost who hides in the shadows.
-DRM free

         *Thief 2 is hard to review then when it was originally released. Playing Thief 2 out of the box requires you to instal the fan made 1.9 – 1.21 Tafferpatch. This leads to to issue of what was changed from what Looking Glass Studios had intended. Unfortunately, there isn't any full documentation of the 1.9 patch. The patch also contains optional visual enhancements and a community fix patch which changes more things. Then you have the issue of did you install the patch that has the New Dark Engine or the Old Dark engine.

          This makes it hard to guaranty that my review will be the same as to how you experience the game and how the game originally was. Now it is possible to run Thief 2 with the 1.8 patch, but it requires a lot of work to get it to run on modern operating systems like Windows 7. Mostly this is the technical and visual qualities of the game. The basic core thief experience will still be the same no matter what patch or enhancements you are using.

This review will be based on the New Dark Engine with Tafferpatch 1.21.