Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal have released the first trailer in a new series of stylized videos that focus on the rich tapestry of Thief; its City and its characters.
Each trailer in this new series tells the story of the City from the perspective of a different character in THIEF’s narrative describing what life is like in the broken, repressed City that is being ravaged by the evil Baron Northcrest and the mysterious sickness known as ‘The Gloom’.
“Now I get others to do the hard work. ‘Cause I’ve got the contacts.
If you’re a wrong ‘un, chances are you know me.
Maybe you owe me. Maybe I owe you.
Now it’s a different. We’re all in the same shithole.
The Gloom’s got the City by the neck; The Watch has got it by the balls.
The City’s dying, right enough.
But maybe there’s a fella I know who can steal back its life.”
The first trailer focuses on Basso, a former boxman (safe-cracker) turned fence, who uses his vast connections to The City’s underworld to organise thieving jobs for Garrett. He owns an intelligent, but bad tempered magpie called Jenivere who delivers messages for him. Garrett might consider himself a loner, but Basso is the nearest thing he has to a friend. And whether he readily admits it or not; he rather likes the fellow.
Joe Khoury is the Lead Designer on Thief, working for Eidos-Montréal, who have a great track record when it comes to games, including DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, and I recently had the chance to talk to him about THIEF:
THIEF is due for release on Windows PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on 28th February 2014 in Europe and other PAL territories.
