I can't believe the score for this game.... I am also a old school gamer and played all the Thief(s) games back in the day and work as a game tester. Now talking about the loading screen between part of the town in the game (about 10sec) is no big deal if you compare it with a game like "Skyrim" which take between 30-50 sec to load you in or out of a house and in towns you have alot of houses and on the top of that you didn't have an option to change the difficulty level and you score this a 9!!! Even a similar concept for the loading and the layout of the city map "Wolfenstein 2009" and score this a 7.5!! For Cinematics is personal love or hate relation ship but never the less it shouldn't influence your judgement when you give over 8 to the franchise like COD and that's full of "cinematic experience". Ok Thief is full of bugs (eg: sound superposing, poor A.I , etc...) but the old ones were the same; shame they didn't improve on that but overall this is THIEF, sneak, steal, and complete the mission. The graphic looks better and in addition you have something call "focus" to see traps, objets, etc.. and some upgrades for Gareth (eg:wrench to move through vents or razor to remove paintings from frames, etc...) and now have some free running which in my opinion is a nice touch. The fact you can plan different ways to do the same mission (roofs, back door, sewers etc...) or going silent or kill like a ninja in this dark medieval well detailed game. This should have been score between a 7 or 8 in my opinion.
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