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Sly Coopermakes you wonder why platform games aren’t more popular The game, set in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals,follows from the end of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. Sly Cooper, a raccoon from a long line of master thieves, will need to reunite with his gang to locate and recover the Thievius Raccoonus, a book chronicling the Cooper family line that has been lost within time. The player controls Sly, Bentley, Murray, Carmelita Fox, and Sly's ancestors, using their skills to pull off heists and reveal who has tampered with the Cooper history. Like previous games in the series,players primarily control Sly Cooper, who must sneak around and navigate various obstacles to help restore the history of the Thievius Raccoonus. Many of Sly's abilities return,such as navigating poles and ropes, jumping across narrow platforms and stealing items from guards.New to this game are costumes earned throughout the course of the game, which give Sly access to new abilities. The plot of Thieves in Time is a bit silly, resembling a Saturday morning cartoon in terms of substantive value. It's a fun game, with clever
dialogue and a fair bit of cross-generational humor that should please the mature fans who have grown up with Sly already while remaining age appropriate for its teenaged, target audience. RELEASE DATE: GENRE: PUBLISHER: PLATFORM:
March 27 Platform, Stealth Sony Computer Entertainment PS3, PS Vita