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Thief 4 officially uncloaked

Alex Sassoon Coby
By Alex Sassoon Coby, Production Editor

Eidos Montreal crafting the cutpurse Garrett's new adventure; release date, platforms, gameplay details still under wraps.

For almost a year now, it has been an open secret that Eidos Montreal has been working on a new entry in the Thief franchise. Back then, the company issued a teaser notice explaining that its next project would begin with the letter 'T." Nothing was then heard officially about the project until last month, when yet another teaser was posted by Eidos Montreal, followed by a print advertisement indicating that news was coming today, May 11.

Today, the sequel was finally officially confirmed by Eidos Montreal, the Quebecois studio of the Japanese-owned British publisher. "We're in the early development stages for Thief 4," said Stephane D'Astous, the shop's general manager. "While it's too early for us to offer any specific game details, right now we are focused on recruiting the very best talent to join the core team at the studio." The game also has an official Web site, www.thief4.com, the forums on which are live.

The Thief franchise began life in 1998 with the highly rated Thief: The Dark Project, developed by Looking Glass Studios. The now-defunct shop released Thief II: The Metal Age two years later, followed by 2004's Thief: Deadly Shadows from Austin, Texas-based Ion Storm, which was shut down by owner Eidos in 2005. Series protagonist Garrett was rated one of the best game heroes ever in GameSpot's Greatest Games of All Time feature.

Eidos Montreal was founded in February 2007, and was revealed in November of that year to be working on another new game in a classic series, Deus Ex 3, due out in fall 2010.

The only video to so far emerge from Eidos Montreal, a teaser trailer for Deus Ex 3.

Alex Sassoon Coby
By Alex Sassoon Coby, Production Editor

Alex Sassoon Coby has been involved in tech and video games journalism for the better part of a decade. He likes his games hard, his meat raw, and his women on wheels.

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SuperB56 15 pts

There are two games that Eidos has been a part of that have aways delivered a great experience no matter what anybody says...Hitman and Thief. I am keeping Thief 4 on my list of games to keep an eye on.

xGarrettThiefX 7 pts

Just loaded Thief Gold and am now playing it in anticipation of Thief 4...

kalgert123 9 pts

@ninoni that sounds like an awesome idea,thief 4 being more open-world-ed,events that don't permanently change like in thief 3 (where if you did anything there,the changes stayed) and hopefully allow you to actually manage what items you have,because having to use only a dagger to fight against people was utter madness...ofcourse the stealth,the amazing stealth...ah thosse were the days,i just hope nothing will be screwed up oh and i also was thinking of maybe a....day and night moments,i mean you are being chased around by guards anyway so why not have a day and night sequence and give the cities some dark areas to hide in

madglee 5 pts

Welp, it's been 3 years; we may never see this, despite it being one of my favorite franchises.

GAMBINO85 5 pts

Thief 4 is number 1 on my list. Hitman is gonna be awesome but Thief is the greatest series in gaming to me.

Genco-29 7 pts

I have Deus Ex 3, (human revolution) because its 2012 :p but i loved thief 3, i have it on xbox and its an amazing game even today so i'm highly anticipating a thief 4

thereal-15-cent 97 pts

Hopefully the stealth will be awesome. After the death of the "Pre Conviction" version of Splinter Cell (R.I.P.) a real stealth series needs to be made. Thief 3 was a good game, so I'm looking forward to this one.

90790959 5 pts

I've played all the parts of that game and i love this game. Garrett is most amazing character for me.

midway_nights 5 pts

come on now, release the game already. its been really long wait.,,,,,,,7 years thief 3 was awesome and genius.

Keeper_Artemus 5 pts

ahhhh, Thief....The way Assassin's Creed should have been.

ninoni 5 pts

they should make it open world like tes with more cities

ninoni 5 pts

great game cant wait for thief 4

rade77 5 pts

One of the greatest games i ever played... Completely, story line, effects, shadows, music and scenes, engine ... With one word, perfect

chkmode 8 pts

yaar anixously waiting for that game :)

blairstheman 5 pts

i hardly have played the first and second thief (thumbs down for me) but i have no doubt they are great games, but the game i fell in love with was thief deadly shadows. the hair raising tight quarters, escapes, sneakin around pagans hamerites, the creepy atmosphere was awesome, n the story was great too. I never have finished the game, i got to where one of the good factions turned into the hag or whatever n killed people n stuff, and the base was blocked off, i couldnt find my way up to the spot to get in, so i stopped playin. lol that was years ago

cometoforest 5 pts

different developer studio often smells different game engine.. i hope it would be at least as the same quality it was.

Lonewolf2785 5 pts

Cant wait to play this game thief 3 was one of the scariest games I have played

ritz_blitz 5 pts

thief 3 is the scariest game Ive ever played. especially that shale bridge cradle level... damn that was scary

GamerLegend10 108 pts

@ athenian29 yeah I'm sure it will

midway_nights 5 pts

Great! but pls make it in the same environment of deadly shadows.

DarkWatchman 5 pts

Opps I meant to say the 1sts person was clunky in the 3rd one not the 1st person view.

DarkWatchman 5 pts

It better have rope/vine arrows from the old ones. Also the clunky 3rd person view has to go. Deadly shadows focused to much on the 3rd person view and made the 1st person aspects clunky. Hopefully they have all good the good stuff from the first 2 thief games.

Artemis575 5 pts

I can't wait for this game! If the developers are smart they'll design like thief 2 and not have an open world, but have thief 3 graphics.

D1zzyCriminal 18 pts

Thief is without a doubt the most pulse raising game I have played, zombies moaning, hammerites chasing you down, constantly knowing your next move may be your last. I hope its quite an unforgiving game so it keeps the tension.

Dan21278 9 pts

They should bring the guys Who made Assassins creed and Star Wars Knights of the old republic. Now That... would be Epic. XD!!!!

Evilnator 16 pts

oh yes.. i cant wait for this...

Eternal_Warrior 5 pts

Can't wait for Thief4. I enjoyed playing all the the previous games and hope to see the hammerites and pagans again.

Tuco_az 5 pts

Master Garrett and Thief 4 FTW I will stop playing whatever it is i am playing and burn it along with every other game disc i own for both my PS3 and 360 when Thief 4 comes out!

tjmic1 5 pts

i can't believe the amount of people paying out deadly shadows!! it was clearly the best game of the series!! it had the most in-depth storyline, a free-roaming world, the best graphics and by far the best gameplay! if only thief 4 would follow (but expand) on the high standards set in deadly shadows.

voisin00fb 5 pts

As a popular Thief fan will tell you 2 things that made this game popular: 1. Horror 2. Control of the premises you have broken in. ps: dont make silly monsters to hide from. Humans are most harmful. johnny.smith5@yahoo.com

rebfaction 5 pts

Oh great another thief game I love all the Thief games. Thief gold,Thief the metal age and Thief Deadly Shadows.But sadly they don't play on windows vista.I'am not buying Thief 4 if it does not came with a FIX OR A PATCH so that Thief Gold and Thief The Metal Age and Thief Deadly Shadows run on windows vista.

MAT0R0 5 pts

The teaser does not make any sense to me. But I really really hope that Thief 4 will come out. Thief 3 was kinda dumb. But I thought thief 2 was the best out of the best stealth games ever. Because it makes you think, and there was robots you have to encounter. And they are harder to kill. I gotta say that Thief 2 was the best stealth game of all time. Hopefully in Thief 4, they will bring back the steam-punked robots, and stuff. That would make it a challenging gameplay.

megamaster32 5 pts

The first one was alright the storyline was good

aldovalera69 5 pts

I can't wait to see the major graphic improvements from Deadly Shadows to this I WANT THESE GAMES!!

Sargothan 5 pts

Hey Vince, that was a spam fest? Hehe just joking. I can't wait for this game together with Deus Ex 3.

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robcox1980 5 pts

To: maven - you know you do have a good point. I'm just a little worried that after the mediocre response from Mirrors Edge (though coming from a thief fan I thought it might had benefited from a few more elements I still thoroughly enjoyed the stealthy goodness) that they are afraid to stick to the nidus of stealth the Thief series implemented so nicely. But as you reminded me eidos has done a respectable job staying true to certain titles despite a record of less than stellar sales. Yeap here's to hope!

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