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Game Information
- Platform: PlayStation2
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 3
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Play as a raccoon burglar
- Action platform game
- Elements of stealth
- Beautiful cartoon-style graphics
- Varied, fast-paced gameplay
- For 1 player
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
If you like the idea of Metal Gear Solid but could've done without the 20-minute long cut-scenes, try Sly Raccoon, where platform games and stealth-'em-ups meet in cel-shaded heaven.
As anyone's mother will tell you, stealing is wrong. Anyone's mum except Sly Cooper's, it seems, because he managed to get born into a family of morally challenged thieves whose most prized possession is a book explaining how to execute all their various cat-burgling skills. Ironically, as the game starts the book gets stolen and it's up to Sly to defend the family dishonour and steal it back again.
Although the basic gameplay of Sly Raccoon is that of a fairly ordinary platform adventure, complete with linear levels full of bizarre architecture and fairly dim bad guys, things are livened up considerably by Sly's ninja-like thieving skills. As well as having to duck and dive between moving headlights, laser-beam gates and the like, Sly also begins to gain such enviable skills as being able to turn invisible and use banisters as slides.
The graphics in Sly Raccoon are excellent too: cel-shaded so they look like 3-D cartoons and very nicely detailed with particularly impressive cut-scenes. There are downsides, of course--the game's not terribly long and the stealthy bits take a back seat to more mundane platform sections a few times too many--but overall this is a classy adventure for platform, raccoon and/or burglary fans everywhere. --David Jenkins
Product Description
Sly Racoon puts the player in the role of a raccoon named, oddly enough, Sly. On his eighth birthday, Sly is given the Thievius Raccoonus, an instruction manual passed down through the Cooper family for generations on how to be a great thief. But ruthless villains bust in and steal the manual, split it amongst themselves, and then vanish. Sly, along with his two friends Bentley and Murray, must embark on a platform adventure to recover the pages of the book and prove to the world that Sly is the world's greatest thief. Different skills, such as stealth tactics and platform jumping, are required throughout the game. You'll also pilot vehicles, play mini-games and fight bosses as you proceed.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb Platformer,
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This review is from: Sly Racoon (PS2) (Video Game)
How do you know when you are enjoying a platform game ? For me if I get to the end of a level and I want to carry on with that level and not only pleased to have reached the goal. Sly Rac is a classic platformer with excellence all round. I really enjoy the interplay with your team at certain points in the game to help you along. The animation is great and very seldom do you find yourself having to be pixel perfect with your positioning inorder to make a jump. The game cleverly ensures that once you have worked out the path or strategy, you have fluid gameplay and dont find yourself being frustrated. I enjoy redoing levels which is not something I can say for Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank etc. The music and environments are great and you can roam freely around (avoiding all the baddies of course). The spotlights are very original and work in two modes. Once one catches you it turns red and then you get fried if it catches you again. The great thing is you can cancel them out by smashing the hooter which controls them and get maximum satisfaction. Overall this is a superb game and I am so pleased I went against sales figures as they could not be further wrong. All ages for this one. Go get it and you wont be disappointed.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Platform Game On The PS2,
By Sarah "Korrok" Thomas "Korrok" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sly Racoon (PS2) (Video Game)
Sly Racoon is without a doubt the finest platform game yet released on the PS2. Forget Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and their ilk - Sly beats them all.In the game, you play as Sly, a racoon burglar from a family of famous theives. It's your job to steal back the book taken from your family - the Thevius Racoonus - and defeat the gang who stole it. Doesn't sound too special, yet the plot is simple but effective. The levels are beautifully detailed, with fantastic backgrounds. Sly himself is cell-shaded and animated to perfection. But most impressive about this game is the wonderfully smooth control system, which allows for you to execute all of Sly's moves with ease and without bogging down gameplay. Jumps, swings and suchlike are also extremely smooth, with responsive controls for fantastic accuracy. The variety that you find as you cross the various sections of the game is also enough to really keep you hooked. Even after you complete this game, which admittedly shouldn't take too long, you'll still want to replay the levels. It's really that much of a joy to play. My criticisms with the game are that the sub-games are less than interesting, although not too difficult, that it's a little on the short side, and that the "Master Thief Sprints" that you can access at the completion of the game are often far too difficult. But if you're finding the game simple, then they'll give you the challenge you crave. Overall, this is a perfect platformer and worth having for fans of the genre of all ages. Happily, Sly 2 has a release date in September - so when you're done with this, it's not too long till the second installment.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Short but Sweet Verdict on Sly Raccon,
By Mista Mista (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sly Racoon (PS2) (Video Game)
Now, I'm not like some others who like to waffle on about random things so I'm just gonna get straight to the main point!Reasons for buying it: Reasons for leaving it: Graphics: Eye-meeting vibrant and picturesque throughout, briliant! OVERALL SCORE AND VERDICT:
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