Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
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| Developer(s) | Sucker Punch Productions |
| Publisher(s) | SCEA |
| Engine | modified Sly 2: Band of Thieves engine |
| Release date(s) |  September 26, 2005 |
| Genre(s) | Platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: E10+ (Everyone 10+) PEGI: 3+ OFLC: G |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Media | DVD |
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (or Sly 3: Honour Among Thieves in Europe) is the third game in the Sly Cooper franchise. The game was released on September 26, 2005 in the United States. It is presumed to be the final game in the Sly trilogy, but other games with a different gameplay focus may also be possible, such as a racing game, or maybe a prequel/midquel.
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[edit] Plot
Set in 1990, this game begins at the end, in which Sly faces his final moments, and the entire game is played through his memories, with the final chapter taking place in the present. His memories center on the steps taken to gain control of Kaine Island and access to the Cooper Vault, found on the island. Breaking into the Cooper Vault, the goal of the game, requires the recruitment of new members to the Cooper Gang, a task undertaken throughout the game.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Playable Characters
(In order of Cooper Gang recruitment)
- Sly Cooper — Since his escape from Carmelita's helicopter, Sly has learned some new skills. He is now a master of disguise, able to become any one of a variety of identities. He is also now attempting to penetrate the Cooper Vault, a secret storehouse that contains all the loot the Cooper Clan has stolen over the years. Upon finding the island that McSweeny tells Sly about, Sly finds that the island is already owned by a Dr. M, and that it would be nearly impossible to enter. So Sly starts searching for thieves that will help him break into Dr. M's island.
- Bentley the Turtle — Bentley is worse for wear from his participation in the battle with Clock-La. Now crippled, Bentley is confined to a wheelchair. However, he's not about to be stopped, and has equipped the chair with multiple features to stay in action.
- Murray the Hippo — Murray suffered psychologically from the Klaww Gang ordeal. Blaming himself for Bentley's injuries, he left the team and took up a life of non-violence and solace, studying under The Guru. However, Sly and Bentley's recruitment of a new Band of Thieves quickly pulls him back into the action. Murray is rerecruited in Venice.
- The Guru — A shaman from Australia, known as "Guru of the Stone". Murray goes to him as his student. Guru has magical abilities like using the dreamtime to blend perfectly into his surroundings, and possessing other people. Guru speaks Diksha, but everybody seems to understand him. He is recruited in Australia and he is the only person in the Cooper Gang that doesn't use metal equipment.
- Penelope — Although only briefly playable this female mouse possesses an RC Helicopter, like Bentley's RC Chopper, and a RC racecar. Bentley has a crush on her. She likes Sly at first, but falls in love with Bentley. She is recruited in Holland.
- Panda King — Former member of the Fiendish Five. A demolitions expert and master of explosives and fireworks. The Panda King was recruited by Sly in China to help overthrow Dr. M's Fortress. His daughter is captured by General Tsao, and Sly promises to help get her back.
- Dimitri — Dimitri Lousteau was a former member of the Klaww Gang; he became a popular dance instructor on a cruise after the fall of the Klaww Gang. Later, Dimitri becomes a free agent and is recruited by the Cooper Gang as a frogman, or water specialist. He is recruited in Blood Bath Bay.
- Inspector Carmelita Fox — Carmelita is not actually on the Cooper Gang, but she later decides to help the gang out, and is essential to certain missions.
[edit] Gameplay
[edit] Features
New variations in the game include additional playable characters besides those of Sly, Bentley and Murray. Firstly, Inspector Carmelita Fox is a playable character (as requested by the game's fanbase) in some of the minigames and a couple times in the game. Secondly, previously unintroduced characters, including a shaman named The Guru and a mouse named Penelope are included, as well as those previously mentioned such as Dimitri from Sly 2: Band of Thieves and the Panda King from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.
The game also contains 3-D sections, an unexpected addition. 3-D glasses have been distributed with each copy of the game, and are used in certain parts of the game. However, 3-D is optional in these sections, allowing the player to switch the levels into normal once more. Some levels are playable in 3-D from the beginning, while other levels require the 3-D feature to be unlocked, another feature being objects in the levels are only visible when being played in 3-D. The 3-D effect is focused upon certain objects in the background rather than the characters themselves, minimizing the necessary blue/red separation and making it easier to watch someone playing in 3-D without a set of 3-D glasses.
Also, to increase replay value, an offline multiplayer mode is included, along with challenges and extra movies unlocked with specific game completion percentages. The multiplayer games are: "Cops and Robbers," "Dogfighting," "Hackathon," and "Galleon Duel." Challenges are missions that are set with specific standards, along with a Treasure Hunt mission for each world attained at the end of the game.
Murray and Bentley can now pickpocket. Murray hoists stunned or unsuspecting guards above his head and shakes them down for coins and loot. The coins must be picked up off the ground after the guard is shaken. Bentley uses a fishing rod like magnet to reel in coins and loot. When the magnet attaches Bentley moves away from the guard to reel in the goods.
Loot no longer needs to be sold back at the safe house. The amount an item is worth is added immediately to the coin count. Special treasure is absent from the over world.
Clue bottles are absent from this game. This is the first time the trademark clue bottles have been missing from any Sly Cooper videogame appearance.
[edit] Mini-Games and Skills
As well as introducing new playable characters, Sly 3 also features new gameplay elements and skills. These include:
- Safe cracking
The player tilts the left analogue stick in a circle until a vibration is felt, then spins the stick round in the other direction til the same occurs. This repeats until the safe is cracked.
- Bi-Plane Flying
Sly flies a plane, with the objective of destroying certain targets. A cheat code unlocks a plane based upon Cartoon Network's Toonami channel.
- Claw Manipulation
The player uses a giant claw to pick up and throw enemies and rocks.
- Ship Combat
The player engages in tactical battles with other ships upon the sea in Episode 5 of the game.
- Disguises
The player can dress Sly in various costumes to infiltrate enemy organizations. Sly can pass undetected through enemy patrols in disguise.
- Logic Challenges
The player must choose from a multiple choice menu how to deal with situations such as dealing with difficult characters. In one section Murray must make a Belgian laugh by selecting an appropriate humour type.
- Painting Safe Cracking
Some safes can be cracked by looking over certain paintings and examining them to find a three digit code, which is then entered in a mechanism similar to that of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.
- The Grapple-Cam
Bentley's grapple-cam is a gadget that can latch on to surfaces and can be used to lure guards to areas such as pressure plates. The grapple-cam is later modified to include a turret.
[edit] Locations
- Prelude: The Beginning of the End
Found on Kaine Island in the South Pacific, the prelude is where "Honor Among Thieves" takes place.
- Hazard Room:
Not really a level for it being optional this is where the Cooper Gang learn their tricks and abilities. Recommended for first-time players.
- Episode 1: An Opera of Fear
This episode takes place in Venice, Italy, where Sly and Bentley go to convince Murray to join back with the gang and encounter Don Octavio, a mobster obsessed with opera, placed in jail for sinking an open tourist site.
- Episode 2: Rumble Down Under
The next location for the Cooper Gang is in Yuendumu, Australia, where Murray's master the Guru lives. Upon arrival, they find that miners have taken over the area and kidnapped the Guru, leaving no one to watch the Mask of Dark Earth.
- Episode 3: Flight of Fancy
Episode 3 takes place in Kinderdijk, Holland, where the next member-to-be, Penelope, has agreed to join if the gang can defeat her boss, the Black Baron, in the ACES dogfighting competition. After beating the Black Baron, it turns out that he is really Penlope. Also in Holland is Muggshot, a former member of the Fiendish Five, also taking part in the competition.
- Episode 4: A Cold Alliance
The gang heads to the Kunlun Mountains in China to recruit the Panda King, much to Sly's chagrin. Upon meeting with him, they learn that his daughter, Jing King, is being forced to marry the cruel General Tsao.
- Episode 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The fifth location in the game is the fictional Blood Bath Bay and Dagger Island in the Caribbean Islands. The gang was brought here by Dimitri to find the diving equipment of his grandfather, and in exchange, he will join the gang. It is here that the gang encounters Captain LeFwee, the self-proclaimed "smartest man on the seven seas."
- Episode 6: Honor Among Thieves
The final location of the game, the fictional Kaine Island, where the Cooper Vault is located. In order to get to it, the gang must defeat the evil Dr. M. The level actually continues after the prologue in the game's beginning where Sly loses his cane and is in the claws of Dr. M's monster.
[edit] Noticeable Landmarks and Regional Items
- Venice, Italy:
The bridge connecting Octavio's mansion and the rest of Venice is the Rialto Bridge. When fighting the Blue Viper gang you're racing through the canals on a gondola, a common form of transportation in Venice.
- Yuendumu, Australia:
Bentley mentions how the miners have no sensitivity for sacred landmarks: Ayers Rock (Uluru), King's Canyon and Wave Rock. Wave Rock and Ayers Rock are both shown and are in playable areas. The Guru is an Aborigine, a native of Australia.
- Kunlun Mountains, China:
Circling Chinese junks (Chinese ships) can be seen in the river and to note: no Western Chinese river connects to the ocean or any other major body of water so for water currents to carry the Cooper van into the Kunlun mountain is impossible. Plus, rivers flow outward to bodies of water from mountains, not to them. The locale itself is kind of a series in-joke; one episode of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus takes place here.
[edit] The Bosses Of Sly 3
| Who/What | Episode | Character |
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| Don Octavio | An Opera Of Fear | Bently & Murray |
| Mask Of Dark Earth Dingo | Rumble Down Under | Sly Cooper, Bently, Murray |
| Mask Of Dark Earth Carmelita | Rumble Down Under | Sly Cooper |
| Muggshot The Bulldog | Flight Of Fancy | Murray |
| Muggshot The Bulldog | Flight Of Fancy | Carmelita |
| Black Baron (air plane) | Flight Of Fancy | Sly Cooper |
| Black Baron (dogfight) | Flight Of Fancy | Cooper Plane |
| Panda King | A Cold Alliance | Sly Cooper |
| General Tsao | A Cold Alliance | Sly Cooper |
| Sly Cooper | A Cold Alliance | Carmelita |
| Tsao's Dragon | A Cold Alliance | Sly Cooper |
| Crusher | Dead Men Tell No Tales | Panda King & Sly Cooper |
| Pirate Ship Captains | Dead Men Tell No Tales | Sly Cooper/ Cooper Ship |
| Captain LeFwee | Dead Men Tell No Tales | Penelope |
| Dr. M's Turtle Monster | Honor Among Thieves | Carmelita |
| Dr. M's Sea Monster | Honor Among Thieves | Dimitri |
| Dr. M's Whale-Fly | Honor Among Thieves | Cooper Plane |
| Dr. M | Honor Among Thieves | Sly Cooper & Carmelita |
[edit] Soundtrack
A soundtrack was released by Sucker Punch for Sly 3, below is a track listing of the tracks on the CD.[1]
1. Main Title and Credits
2. Penelope's Mighty Sky Chopper
3. China Palace Grounds
4. Dr. M's Island
5. Dr. M's Aerial Attack
6. Bentley and Penelope Suite
7. Murray the Ghost
8. The Shaman Rides
9. Sly the Pirate insults Pete
10. Pirate Fight
11. Gauntlet of the Ancestors
12. Bamboo Fight
13. Feeding the Croc
14. Lemonade Drinking Contest
15. Zombies' Army
16. Carmelita vs Muggshot
17. China Palace Interior
18. Venice Chase
19. Hotel Lobby with Muggshot
20. Fight with the Black Baron
21. Dimitri Underwater
22. The Great Sea Battle
23. The Treasure Island
24. Venice Espionage
25. Holland Dogfight
26. Murray fights the Hybrids
27. Canada Train Station (bonus track from Sly 2: Band of Thieves)
28. Sly's Great Train Robbery (bonus track from Sly 2: Band of Thieves)
29. Sly in Paris (Theme of Sly 2: Band of Thieves)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- IGN Preview of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves
- Official Sony Website
- Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves at MobyGames
- Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves at GameSpot
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