The intro cutscene from Thief: The Darkish Challenge was a beautiful mood-setter, reducing between one among Garrett’s heists and creepy supernatural imagery, heavy on eyes to recommend he is being watched. It is also a neat “here is how to not play the sport” warning, with Garrett killing a guard, an act that summons three extra and ends in him having to beat toes. Now, because of the unique recreation’s cutscene director Daniel Thron we have got one other introduction to the world of Metropolis: a fan movie known as Thief – Cutscene Zero.
It is one other of Garrett’s jobs gone messy, with Thron joking on Twitter, “I assure you he is loading his final save proper after this”. Cutscene Zero will get the fantasy-noir vibe down pat, from the unsuspecting guard seeing his reflection as he appears to be like out the window into the rain, to the narration supplied by Viktoria, Thief’s femme fatale, voiced as soon as once more by Terri Brosius. I want this modded into Thief Gold by some means.
One other member of the unique Wanting Glass growth staff, artist Jennifer Hrabota-Lesser, supplied the portray seen 30 seconds in. It looks like everybody at Wanting Glass wore loads of hats, and Hrabota-Lesser was additionally credited with A/V assist and the web site, whereas Brosius was a designer and the cutscene author in addition to an excellent voice actor (most famously, she voiced Shodan within the System Shock sequence). Thron’s personal credit on Thief embrace cutscene path, artwork, and animation, the field artwork and handbook illustrations, particle results, and voice appearing for characters as numerous as a comedically wheezy ApeBeast and the terrifying voice of The Eye, in addition to Cutty, Ramirez, Brother Renault, and several other guards.
Whereas Thief continues to be solely playable at this time, with the Gold version accessible on Steam and GOG, and the unofficial patch pack TFix including issues like widescreen assist, I might like to see a remake. Now that the System Shock remake is out, possibly it might be Nightdive’s subsequent challenge? Although there’s all the time Gloomwood for extra of these trendy Thief vibes.
