Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

If you a fan of the popular classic Platform PlayStation 1 games like Spyro(mostly),Crash Bandicoot or Jack and daxter,this game is for you! But this game gets many elements from Spyro, This is why: Portals: you enter levels by portals to different levels. And they make a sound when your near one. Thats spyro the dragon reference. HomeWorlds:Like Spyro, The levels are connected the Homeworlds where you enter levels,gain extra lives and lucky charm. But they are only entered if you beat the first level. And also you cant access the whole home world without obtaining certain amount of keys for the locks. Thats a reference to spyro ripto rage. Characters:don't Bentley and Murray eyes look familiar to ya ll? It looks like spyro or aku aku eyes. Slys health:Just like those platform games i mentioned, spyro health was the color of sparx and crash health was how strong aku aku is, the brigther his feather is,the more hit points you have. Sly's health is how bright the lucky charm is. And its similar to sparx health.Because when he gets Hit,his aura changes color. Collectibles:well you collect clues to get new abilities: No references.you collect keys to end the level: that's a reference to spyro ripto rage.You collect coins which 100 gives you a lucky charm: no references. Enemies:well enemies may be difficult to defeat but if you follow its pattern and movement,it will be a piece of cake! Abilities:sly can jump and use other stealthy moves.its like gaining abilities from spyro ripto rage. Thats all there is! Well time for my review: Story:The story is about Sly's life and his family history. But it was torn apart when the fiendish fives arrived and killed his parents.So without his parents,he was sent to orphanage where he met his two best pals Murray and Bentley! They play stealth games,stealing and robing. All sly's life he's been doing it to the good. But he decided to do the right thing this time for his family and his life! He decided to get revenge on the fiendish five with the help with his friends to get the pages of the book the fiendish five stole back!The stories are divided into each chapter and thats each home worlds. So the story is pretty good.no problem.score:7 Characters:the characters are great!you have Sly the doing,Bentley the genius and Murray the hulk! They all put their abilities to use to solve the crimes!But Bentley gets overprotected of sly sometimes!Score:8 GamePlay: Its fun. But it can get frustrating at times.Score:6 Music: The music is fantastic! It has the best beats! Score:8 Graphics:Its pretty good.nothing special about it.Score:7 Now my total score is:36/50(7)

This game is very good for it's generation but it don't passes the second game the second is the best of the series. I like the final boss because he's very powerful and you must go to the first level to collect lives in order to beat him. And believe me this is the last game i played from the series. First i played Sly 2 then Sly 3 and finally Sly 1. They were all great. I can play them all because i own the Sly Trilogy for the PlayStation 3. The only bad thing about this game is the lives you must collect a few in order to beat hard bosses. But play this game is very good and it contains amazing stages. My favorite is Ruby's swamp.

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoon is has aged very well proven to be easily one of my personal favorite PlayStation 2 games. The heist story was nicely told that has given the characters great backstories both the main characters and the villains. The gameplay is fantastic in platform gaming, bosses and sometimes racing. All the pages that unlocks new moves makes the game awesome. The cutscene animation in 2D is comically brilliant. And the graphics in this is one of the best platform gaming style as 3D gaming has began to experiment something new during the early 2000s. I know there's a lot of 2000s kids like me that have grew up with that decade's gaming when it comes to platform. If you're nostalgic for that era, I definitely recommend this game. But if you don't have a PS2, you can also play it on PS3 on The Sly Collection. It's sad that after 2013, the game franchise wasn't relevant to games anymore. I mean, it wouldn't be on PS4 at that time. The timing playing this game is indeed a perfect one considering it has been 20 years since it first release. So maybe PlayStation will probably make it relevant again later in the year. This has given the franchise an excellent start and I'm looking forward to play the other games soon.

On September 24, 2002 I bought Sly Cooper on a whim and little did I know that this game would end up being the greatest platform game ever made. One of the best "hunch" buys I ever made.

Sly Cooper is as close to perfection as a platformer can reach. Outstanding story, superb "cel-shaded (toon-shaded)" graphics, excellent and easy to use controls, fine music, and tons of unlockables and replay value make this game worth getting now that it's a PS2 Greatest Hits game.

Sly Cooper is the latest in a line of Thief Raccoons; thieves so great that they don't steal from regular folks, but from other thieves. When Sly was 8, he was to inherit the Thievius Raccoonus, which contained all the secrets to their success. On the eve of his 8th birthday, 5 master thieves broke into his house, killed his father, and stole the TR away. Sly then lived in an orphanage for 10 years before plotting his revenge against those who offed his father. He met up with Bentley, a genius-geek turtle who lets him know what traps are in his way as he goes and Murray, a hippo who's their wheel-man. Together, the trio make an awesome team.

There's also Carmelita Montoya Fox, a police detective who's been trying to arrest Sly for his prior crimes. It's kind of an homage to the Duke boys and Roscoe.

Sly Cooper goes through five worlds, trying to reach the boss. Along the way, he can open safes that can get him more powers because they contain pages of the Thievius Raccoonus. He must destroy all the bottles to open the safe. You'll go through beautiful, easy to traverse levels that are interspersed by great mini-games. You'll race around a track as Murray, try to keep Murray from being assaulted by enemies as he tries to collect a key, and play Robotron-style levels. The final level is just like a bunch of mini-games put together as a level. There's so much variety. The game relies on some stealth, as you must avoid tripping alarms and traps in each level. The boss levels are awesome, too. One boss has you using Parappa The Rapper button presses to defeat her.

With lots of secrets like "director's commentaries" and film clips to unlock. this game is filled with stuff to do. It's a little short, but I'm sure you'll want to play this one multiple times. For $20 U.S., it's a no-brainer; buy it!

First off, this game is all around good.

Everything from the voices to the animation is great.

The first time I saw this game, I had a feeling this was gonna be good.

This game is about a raccoon who is kind of a "theif of thieves," growing up around a whole ancestry of master thieves, on the night of his 8th birthday when he was supposed to inherit the family's legendary book, The Thievius Raccoonus, a gang of villains known as the Fiendish 5, ransacked his house until they found it and they split the book among themselves and split up to different parts of the world to commit crimes.

The level design was excellent.

I hate for this to be like a spoiler, but by the looks of things, judging by the end of the credits, I'd say that there'll be another Sly Cooper game. At the end of the credits, Clockwerk's eye opens up, signifying that he's still very much alive.

I give this game a 10 out of 10.