Thief™ 2: The Metal Age

While this sequel fails to improve on the original in any way, it is also not substantially worse - which is high praise if the original is as good as the original Thief! Don't play this before playing the original (as it will spoil the story), but definitely play it afterwards.

while i totally like thief (thief = 100% pure awesome ;)) this release ist LAME because it got all flaws the original games got with new pc´s the cutscenes dont work + the game crashes at pc´s with more than one core whats the point of this release ? arent gog releases tuned to work at modern machines ? if you buy this you are forced to download at least 2 patches to get this game actually work proper very LAME gog :( 3 stars because its THIEF :3 (would be 5 if you could play straight away after installing this gem)

Idk this game just wasn't really for me, I've heard if you like stealth this game is great but bleh I just wasn't super into it.

Its a great game no doubt. But nowhere is mentioned that the famous credit Song from Subway to Sally is not included in this Version. it SHOULD be mentioned. That was the song i always remembered playing Thief 2 in these old days. Bad release cos of that - sorry. Same with Quake where the Nine Inch Nails Theme is removed. Sorry no good releases...

Played this one after the bad predecessor with it's silly zombies, spiders, dead guards, dinosaurs, ... This time it includes robots, fantasy camera systems and so on. The story line was interesting and the mission design was variable. You generally have more room not being detected by guards, which makes it more tactical. Saving and reloading is your best friend. You can be caught after each corner, door or window accidentally. It doesn't matter if you are careful and sneak quietly or not. It is the same principle like in an ego-shooter, just don't be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes the guards won't see you in the shadows and sometimes they know exactly where you are not retracable for me. I found the map system confusing and hated the unfair mission goals I would never have solved without the help of the internet and youtube vids which destroyed the game flow and totally sucked. I am talking about difficulty normal as easiest option! Changing mission goals in missions were nerving. One time you have to put back a special key. You don't know where, because at this time you already collected a lot of keys. Isn't that funny? This is a special kind of nerd programmer humour: superfluous, but I liked the drunken guards telling us about their problems. My game experience end in mission 13. I couldn't find a special box with an important item to finish a goal. I saw youtube vids where this box was shown but neither was it located at the same place in the game nor could I find this box elsewhere. I couldn't finish another goal in this level, too. I didn't find the game that extraordinary, being great-grandpa of stealth game or not. It is a below average game with it's faults like all the others out there. If I had finished the game, I wouldn't have played it on harder level only to get more loot and gold, because the whole experience was too time consuming and frustrating enough. The medieval age setting with robots adds some atmosphere.