Reviews: Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

I'm a big fan of the Sly Cooper games. I liked Sly 1 and Sly 2. No surprise that I really liked number 3 as well.

This game has similar gameplay to Sly 2. There are six levels, called "episodes" within the game, each of which has it's own city map. Missions (or "jobs" in Sly thief lingo) are split between ones taking place on the city map and others occurring in separate dedicated mission maps. Many of the minigames from Sly 2 (like various RC vehicles) are back. Sly 3 also has several jobs requiring air-to-air combat in Sly's biplane and strategic ship-to-ship combat on the gang's pirate ship. Both of these are incredibly fun and are worthy of being a game unto themselves. Thankfully the replay modes from Sly 1 are back, so you can start up Sly 3 and just play some air ace or some ship-to-ship combat if you want.

The difference from Sly 2 is in the characters. In Sly 1, you essentially played Sly. In the second game, you played Sly, Murray, and Bentley. In Sly 3, the gang expands to include several more characters and you even get to play Carmelita Fox a few times. This makes for well varied gameplay. If Sly 3 does have a criticism, it is that the game play is now a bit too varied and the game itself risks loosing focus. That and there aren't any bottles to find for secrets, which was a lot of fun in Sly 2. But generally, I really enjoyed the game a lot as you can probably tell.