| The Sly Collection | |
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| Developer(s) | Sucker Punch Productions Sanzaru Games (port) |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Series | Sly Cooper |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3 |
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| Genre(s) | Platform, Stealth |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Media/distribution | Blu-ray Disc, Download |
The Sly Collection (titled as The Sly Trilogy in PAL regions and Sly Cooper Collection in Asia) is remastered port of the PlayStation 2 games Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, for the PlayStation 3 on a single Blu-ray Disc as a Classics HD title. The games were originally developed by Sucker Punch Productions, while the port was handled by Sanzaru Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. On November 29, 2011, The Sly Collection was released as a digital download on the PlayStation Store. Each title in the collection is available for separate purchase.
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The first game in the series, In the game, Sly must recover his family's "Thievius Raccoonus", a book listing all the special thieving skills his family has collected over several centuries, which was stolen by a rival gang, the Fiendish Five, led by Clockwerk, a mechanical owl, the "manifestation of evil". Meanwhile, Sly and his gang must keep ahead of Interpol Inspector Carmelita Fox, who promises to one day capture Sly and put him away for his crimes.
In Sly 2: Band of Thieves, a series of mechanical parts of the shattered Clockwerk have been stolen by the Klaww Gang. Together, they could be used to revive the defeated Clockwerk; separately, they each have super functions. While Sly and his gang follow these leads, they are pursued by Carmelita and her new partner, Constable Neyla, who are after both the Cooper Gang and the Klaww Gang.
In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, Sly has learned of the Cooper Vault, a gigantic store of the wealth his family's accumulated over the years. He must find a way, however, to defeat Doctor M, who has taken over the island where it is located to try to break into it, with many failed attempts. Sly must regroup his old gang and recruit new members in order to succeed at reclaiming his family's history, all while still on the run from Carmelita.
The core game and story for all games remains unchanged with the remastered versions. For the remastering, all three games have had a graphics overhaul to allow them to support modern 720p resolution. When in 3D mode the games run at 30fps, while in normal mode, the games run 60fps.
Sanzaru Games, who developed the collection, was working on a demo of the then unknown Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, a new PS3 exclusive Sly Cooper title, while Sucker Punch Productions, the developers of the original PS2 games continued to work on the inFamous series. Sony was impressed with the prototype and gave them the development duties for the PlayStation 3 conversion of the original trilogy. In June 2010, The Sly Collection was announced for a Fall 2010 release. It was released on November 9, 2010 and is available to purchase from the PlayStation Store as of November 29th, 2011.
| Sly Collection reception | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 87.43%[1] |
| Metacritic | 85/100[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 |
| GamesRadar | 9/10 |
| GameTrailers | 8.4/10 |
| IGN | 8.5/10 |
| GameFocus | 9.5/10[3] |
The Sly Collection received mostly positive reviews; GamesRadar's Brett Elston gave it 9/10, stating "this is both a great deal and a much-deserved reintroduction to a fantastic set of seemingly forgotten games". IGN gave the game a score of 8.5/10 and an "Editors Choice Award". Eurogamer gave it 9/10 and PlayStation: The Official Magazine gave it 9/10 and stated "In a rare instance of low price and high quality colliding, this one's a steal worthy of Sly's thieving skills."[4] It was IGN's PlayStation 3 game of the month for November 2010. On Metacritic it has a score of 85/100 based on 46 reviews and a GameRankings score of 87.35%.
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