Amazon.co.uk Review
With the welcome return of Sly Cooper and company, PlayStation 2 gamers are once again treated to an exemplary action adventure that happily reaches the highs of the first game. And what’s more,
Sly 2: Band of Thieves has a fair few new tricks up its sleeve too.
This time round, the task in hand is to locate the remains of boo-hiss baddie Clockwerk, which naturally enough have gone missing. This aim subsequently splits the game down into numerous locations, each of which present different challenges to Sly and his team. And thanks to a winning marriage of stealth, platforming action and puzzle solving, the challenges are hard not to enjoy.
What really adds to the fun is the game’s wonderful style. Borrowing clichés liberally from lots of heist movies, there’s a charming tongue-in-cheek approach to Sly 2. Furthermore, it’s also adopted a free-roaming mission structure that allows you to tackle its elements in the order you prefer. This certainly gets round the problem of frustratingly getting stuck in certain areas--now you can go off elsewhere and make progress, and come back to the tricky bits later.
With clever level design, a fair dollop of suspense and some genuinely engrossing gameplay, Sly 2: Band of Thieves is ultimately a very successful sequel. Whilst admittedly not straying too far from the winning formula of the original, it nonetheless presents interesting new challenges, a fair few new ideas and a whole heap of entertainment. Can’t really say fairer than that.--Simon Brew
Product Description
Sly Cooper and his crew are back with a vengeance in a technologically, awe-inspiring, enormous undertaking with brilliant interactive animation. Say goodbye to the Rat Pack as you know it because there's a new Raccoon Pack in town that is raring to go!
Word is out that Interpol has excavated the robotic remains of Clockwerk - Sly's nemesis and sworn enemy of the Cooper clan. Sly and his gang discover the parts of Clockwerk are missing, and embark on a quest to ensure Clockwerk is never reassembled. The journey takes Sly and his crew to the far reaches of the globe and along the way experience a plot full of deceit, surprising twists, and an exciting romantic triangle that will leave players wanting more.
Sly 2 Band of Thieves breaks the rules of convention and truly immerses gamers into a world with no laws or boundaries. It's an exciting new adventure that charges gamers of all ages, skills and interests with a fun, uninhibited playground right at their fingertips.
- Heist gameplay innovation enables gamers to master orchestrated action between Sly, Murray and Bentley in order to pull off a series of new heists with big bad bosses.
- Episodic storyline that mirrors the unpredictable, suspense-filled plots of the best heist/caper films.
- In addition to Sly, Murray and Bentley are back and playable with their own unique skills, strengths and personalities.
- Gameplay is completely dynamic and non-scripted as an enhanced move set enables Sly to hide, combat, sneak, pickpocket, and crawl.
- Sneak around in different large, open environments in settings like Paris, Prague, India, the Canadian Wilderness and more.
- The world is a playground where gamers can roam the streets or take the exciting action to a new level and show off expert stealth skills on the rooftops, steal priceless objects, discover underground hideouts, and more.
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