Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time E3 2011 trailer

[Tails 6,692]

The rumer of the New Sly game coming out has been confirmed to be true. The new Sly game is coming up around somewhere in 2012. Here's the trailer of it.

 

[SoraFanatic 27]

OH MY GOD! SLY 4!!! FINALLY!!! *freaks out*

[Deadshot 666]

it looks sweet i wonder if sucker punch it making it or another studio

[Rob 5,571]

We all knew it was coming.

[Tails 6,692]

it looks sweet i wonder if sucker punch it making it or another studio

 

I'm not too sure but they probably are. It looks like something Sucker Punch would do. But I am excited for this game and this gives me a huge reason to buy a PS3 besides Uncharted 3 and Assassin's Creed: Revelations. I hope the story in this Sly game is just as good as the other ones were.

[khfan02 56]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SLY 4 IS FINALLY COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SoraFanatic 27]

it looks sweet i wonder if sucker punch it making it or another studio

 

i think it IS Sucker Punch this time around too. they hinted at it for the longest time in the Infamous games

[keystrike 145]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE umm... hey when did sly 3 come out anyway? I really hope it is on a system I own.

[Deadshot 666]

sly 4 is being made by Sanzaru Games who made sly cooper collection

Here a story how them written by greg miller from ign

The answer is simple. Sanzaru is a San Francisco Bay Area developer that noticed one its favorite franchises wasn't getting a fourth installment and thought that sucked. Still, I'm getting ahead of myself. Years ago, some folks broke away from Activision and created Sanzaru. The developer made Ninja Reflex for the Wii and DS and moved on to porting Secret Agent Clank to the PS2. But when Clank was about done, these folks decided it was time to do something they loved.

 

 

 

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They ponied up the cash for a PlayStation 3 development kit and sat down to create a Sly Cooper demo. From scratch. With no assets from Sucker Punch -- the developer that created the franchise but had since moved on to Infamous -- Sanzaru went to work on their version of the "Thievius Racconus."

 

In a month, Sanzaru created a playable demo of what it though Sly in HD should be. Sony agreed with the vision and -- perhaps more importantly -- so did Sucker Punch. That led to Sanzaru porting the original PS2 games to the PS3's Sly Collection while working on what would go on to become Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.

 

When I heard the guys behind Sanzaru talk about their game, it was clear how much they care about this franchise. They had nothing but glowing things to say about Sucker Punch and its three Sly games, but at the same time, they were full of ideas on how to make Sly relevant again. They kept the idea of starting fresh -- they're not reusing code from the games they ported but instead are learning techniques from it. They're intent on "staying true to the spirit" of the original games, and from the two levels I saw, I think they're on track -- this looks like what you'd expect a new Sly to look like on the PS3, and its packing familiar faces, too. It's super-slick and expands on the ideas we all associate with the franchise.

 

It sucks, but that's all I can tell you right now. At least the important stuff is known -- you know that Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is real, you know the story of Sanzaru Games, and you know that this game looks good. I can't wait to tell you about it this Tuesday.

[Deadshot 666]

Here's another article by greg miller

There hasn't been a brand new Sly Cooper game in nearly six years, and after seeing two levels of the PlayStation 3's Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, the thing I can't stop talking about isn't Sly's more mature look or the fact that you're time traveling; it's a boss' health meter. It's not that the rest of the game isn't good looking or exciting -- it is -- it's just that this health bar had a caricature of the boss, and there was smoke wafting from his cigar. Wafting smoke on one of the game's tiniest details! It looked like a CGI movie it was so slick, and that attention to detail is sprinkled throughout what I saw of the new Sly.

 

 

 

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time Trailer

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time as an evolution of the franchise according to developer Sanzaru Games. This isn't a sequel from Sucker Punch -- the folks who made the first three Sly games -- but a reimagining of the world. Don't panic: this isn't a reboot of the third-person platformer. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time picks up after the events of Sly 3 and finds the cast living happily ever after. However, when Bently discovers that the pages of the Thievius Racoonus (the Cooper family book of secrets) are disappearing, he rounds up the gang and head out on a time travelin' mission to set things right. Again, this is an "evolution" of the franchise. The same voices for Sly, Bently and the rest are back, but the characters themselves have gotten older. Sly looks bigger, Murry's features are more Hippo-ish.

 

When I say "reimagining," I mean it in the way that Sanzaru has started from scratch and only looked to the previous games as inspiration while building its own legacy. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time looks like an HD version of the franchise, but there's more verticality, more to explore, objects that are harder to find, and tougher puzzles that have you switching between characters.

 

Still, the addition that has me most interested in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is replayability. The old games were great, but you could steamroll through them and never really have to double back. Here, you're going to come across areas that you can't get to -- that you don't have the skill set to open. This is because of the time traveling nature of the title. When you hop to a new era, you'll eventually unlock a new costume from that time period. This suit will grant Sly a special ability that will be not only be key to passing the challenges of the level but also key to doubling back to beaten levels and snagging goodies like in the LEGO games.

 

I've seen two of these suits. The first is a Prince of Persia-like thief outfit. It has boots with curled toes, billowy pants and so on. The thief costume gives Sly the ability to slow down time, so he had to don it to pull levers and make it through falling doors he just opened. The other suit was an armored samurai suit. This one made Sly imperious to fire, but he was much slower and unable to jump.

 

And the samurai suit brings us to the boss battle I started this article talking about. The cigar-smoking bad guy was El Jeffe, a bombastic Cuban tiger voiced by Nolan North (the guy behind Uncharted's Nathan Drake). Sly shows up at the base of a gigantic stature El Jeffe has made of himself, the two have the witty back-and-forth dialogue you'd expect, and then it's into the fight.

 

 

He's back, and he's stealin' stuff!Boss battles are the classic Sly structure rather than Sly 3's beat'em up. Sly dodged some attacks, got in for a few shots, and El Jeffe fled to another part of the level where he slightly changed his attack and became a bit tougher. El Jeffe's burning the level and hurling fireballs as Sly came at him, and when the raccoon got there, he needed to switch to the armor to get through some fire attacks and then quickly switch out so to avoid electrically attacks. It was charming. Familiar. If made me remember the Sly games of old, but it looked so good (and the hub worlds are supposedly huge) that it felt like a true PS3 experience.

 

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is set to be released in 2012. It's early and I've only gotten a small taste of it, but I'm excited. The game felt familiar and new at the same time. It's the homecoming of one of the PlayStation's most underrated mascots, so let's hope Sanzaru does Sly right and gets the raccoon the recognition he deserves

[ObsidianEagle 103]

E P I C L Y A W E S O M E E P I C S A U C E

[Amon 4,279]

Ha! I was right! They do go back in time and meet all of Sly's ancestors!

 

And that was a prediction my friends and I made four years ago!

[TripleNipple 308]

I don't have a PS3

[Gameowner5 34]

they said it was a myth they said it would never come they sad i was crazy but i had faith and belived and i WAS right IT WILL COME MWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA

[Deadshot 666]

here's some gameplay footage

http://www.viddler.com/explore/sceablog/videos/1901/43.277

[P50L 610]

FINALLY!