The years surrounding the millennium have given us many great games, but the year of '98 was especially blessed; with games like StarSiege: Tribes, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VIII, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, and lest we forget, a little game called Thief: The Dark Project. Stealth based games were not new then, in fact, there were two other stealth games that year: Metal Gear Solid and Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, but Thief was truly the most ground breaking and realistic, and it is the one that has (probably) been the most influential.