Thief II: The Metal Age | Full Walkthrough (No Commentary) Pt 5
Channel: Looking Glassed
Date: 2019-01-31

Having dispatched the trickster in “The Dark Project” Garrett is left with a final warning by the keepers “Nothing is changed, everything is as it was written, the trickster is dead. Beware the dawn of the metal age”. Fast forward in time and Garrett is worse for wear. With an enthusiastic new sherif breathing down his neck Garrett becomes more and more desperate as the walls close in around him. Meanwhile the power of a religious sect and offshoot of the hammerites is growing in power and influence in the city. Headed by the eccentric Karras, the mechanist order is ushering in a technological renaissance in the city, while the vegetation and animal life of the cities parks and surroundings mysteriously begins to wither. Garrett gets embroiled in the corruption of the cities upper echelon and their involvement in the Mechanist’s sinister plot. 

Thief II, the best game in the original Thief series. This game improved in almost every way upon the issues with the Dark Project, removing the large enemy count & numbers and shifting from a pseudo combat focus to pure stealth. Additionally, the missions in this game felt more like jobs for a thief rather than a random assortment of adventure hero tasks. The deep and complex level design in this game remains unbeat in the 19+ years since this games release. Continuing the unique art style of the dark project and injecting more wild and imaginative steampunk as well as elements of art deco this game looks and feels more original than any other title I have played, including a mission in an abandoned pirate fortress housing the staging area for a jules vern-nautilus inspired submersible and the haunted sunken ship of a notorious pirate lord.This is one of the best games of all time and certainly in my top 3.