I came into Thief: Deadly Shadows expecting a problem which didn't exist, finding no new others, yet in the end I came out feeling the game is lacking something. Let's sit down on the couch with the good doctor and explore the origins of that feeling.

Thief: Deadly Shadows has a tough legacy to live up to. The original two Thief games were developed by Looking Glass Studios, the defunct game developer known for its quality, innovative games that almost inevitably ended up as commercial failures. With the demise of Looking Glass, gamers were quite bitter towards publisher Eidos for permitting this to happen, pointing out the fortune spent on ION Storm and Daikatana. Apparently Eidos management isn't without a heart (or sense of irony) since development on a new Thief game began not long after… at ION Storm Austin, the office of the famous Warren Spector. In addition, a fair sized chunk of the Looking Glass crew found themselves at Austin.