Why should I play Thief 2?

"Graham Thurlwell" wrote:

> On the 19 Jan 2007, "reborn rolla" <zzrollazz.DeleteThis@King2.com> wrote:
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>>> It's no harder than Thief 1 and the game sequence trains you up in the
>>> various skills in a nice progression. The graphics look much better
>>> than Thief1.
>
>> Huh? What about the watchers and robots that are in Thief 2? The Bank
>> mission is way harder than anything in Thief 1 as is Sabotage at
>> Soulforge.
>> You need a walkthru for that one.
>
> I enjoyed the Bank one, but gave up trying to finish Soulforge after I
> realised it was annoying me so much I was in danger of snapping the CD
> or putting the keyboard through the monitor.


It's the only mission I had to play on easy mode. Even then I had to
consult the walkthru for what to do first and then second etc.



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On the 28 Jan 2007, "reborn rolla" <zzrollazz.DeleteThis@King2.com> wrote:

>
> "Graham Thurlwell" wrote:

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[Original Thief 2 missions]

>> I enjoyed the Bank one, but gave up trying to finish Soulforge after I
>> realised it was annoying me so much I was in danger of snapping the CD
>> or putting the keyboard through the monitor.

> It's the only mission I had to play on easy mode. Even then I had to
> consult the walkthru for what to do first and then second etc.

It wasn't helped by a bug that messed up the map so that it was very
difficult to tell where you were. That was fixed in a patch,
fortunately.

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