PlayStation is getting a new entry in a classic stealth RPG series next month, and consider me hyped.

It’s always a shame when one of your favourite game franchises goes dormant. Splinter Cell fans, you know what I’m talking about, right?

One minute you’ll be getting new game after new game, and then suddenly nothing. For fans of that particular series, it can sting a little to go years without a new entry.

I certainly feel this way about Thief, a series that hasn’t had a new game in so long that I wouldn’t blame a lot of people for forgetting it exists.

It’s been so long since we last had a Thief game, and even longer since we had a good one, and that’s a shame as the original trilogy is perhaps some of the finest stealth games to have ever been made.

Lucky for Thief fans, the series

See Full Page