The premise seemed reasonable: find out why the locals are being rousted out of the area and clean out a bank vault while you're at it. Fair enough. I was dropped into a city environment that was frankly, on the whole, unimpressive. After a couple of minutes, I found myself pinned down in an apartment with one entrance/exit after the barest glim...

Especially ones with this much work put into them. The map is small, but makes great use of the available space, and between the custom model and textures, everything looks terrific. The abandoned seminary feels very urbexy. It's fairly simple, but there's enough intrigue to keep things interesting. The guards seem to have bionic hearing, but I'...

The first time I took a shot at ItO, I quickly ejected with a bitter taste. The beginning is *very* frustrating: you are escaping from a latrine...you are weapon and tool-less...cover is slight and sporadic...the enemies are paranoid and have complicated, overlapping patrol routes. But I couldn't forget how uniquely strange, yet genuinely inspir...

...but even on normal it has the kind of coked-up, hyper-active super guards that can hear a footfall on marble two storeys down on the street below, and will go instantly from normal patrol mode to AYYYAYAYAYAAAAAGH! waving their sword at a dead run at you when they've spotted you at four o'clock from fifty feet away. Irritating and immersion-...

It's ironic that the best Thief fan mission ever was created for a different platform. Iris's plot is elegantly simple, even wistful. The map is astoundingly thick and vast....just when you think you may have seen it all, you'll stumble into a new route or room, some secret nestled into the environment so skillfully it beggars the imagination ho...

I would have never have guessed that gentle tongue-in-cheek Thief parody (which is really tribute and praise, as parody often is...) could be blended so smoothly with genuine Christmas spirit, but here it is. If you haven't actually played it yet, possess your soul in patience until December, and be ready for an upswelling of feelings you may no...

This mission quickly became familiar. I found it weird but forgettable (apparently) the first time around; this time I'll remember. The architecture and visuals are, frankly, crude. Name-dropped mathematicians do not a fan mission make. Overrated.