The Thief series is an incredible experience if you're into stealth gameplay. However, these games are about stealing stuff, not assassinating people. If you're playing on the higher difficulty settings, the mission objectives will even forbid you to kill anyone. You have to club or gas guards, hide their K.O.'ed bodies from sight, and remain undetected as much as possible. It might sound dull to some, but to me it's actually much more exciting than rambo'ing your way through a mission (which, btw, is pretty much impossible in Thief).
The first two games are very outdated by now graphics-wise, but the sound is still unbelievable (especially the guards' conversations); the third one (Deadly Shadows) is really good but some concessions were made as it was developed for consoles and pc's at the same time; most notably smaller outdoor levels. The core gameplay remained entirely intact however, and became even better thanks to the awesome dynamic shadows.
Cheers,
T.
P.S. Oh and just so you know: the guy who designed the Dark Brotherhood quest line for Oblivion, Emile Pagliarulo, was a designer on the Thief series as well. So I'm pretty confident you'll like Thief.
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