Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves is a stealth-action platform video game that was developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the PlayStation 2. It was released on September 26, 2005 in North America and November 18, 2005 in Europe on the PS2. On November 9, 2010, it was released on PlayStation 3 as part of The Sly Collection HD remaster. Its first release in Japan was as part of the the Sly Cooper Collection HD remaster, released on January 27, 2011.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Like the first and second games, the game uses gorgeous cel-shaded graphics that give a comic book like feel.
 * 2) Each chapter revolves around adding new members to the Cooper gang therefore unlocking more player characters, while the three main characters get new abilities. The eight player characters are:
 * 3) *Sly : He keeps all his moves from the previous games and now can use disguises to fool guards.
 * 4) *Bentley : His wheel chair gives him a new thruster ability and now he can also pickpocket.
 * 5) *Murray : He plays the same as in Sly 2 and now has a "bouncing ball" move.
 * 6) *Carmelita : She uses her taser gun for run & gun shooting.
 * 7) *Guru : He can possess enemies and ram them into objects to break them. He can also transform into objects to hide from enemies.
 * 8) *Penelope : She uses RC controlled vehicles similar to Bentley in Sly 2.
 * 9) *Panda King : He uses fireworks to fire at enemies and can target multiple enemies at once.
 * 10) *Dimitri : He dives underwater.
 * 11) As said above, Carmelita is playable for the first time. Since Carmelita is technically an antagonist until the very end of the game, her jobs are often presented from her point of view of thinking that the Cooper Gang are the bad guys. One of Carmelita's jobs literally involves her shooting at Sly.
 * 12) Fan favorite villains from the first two games Dimitri Lousteau, Panda King and Muggshot reappear in this game with the earlier two becoming playable characters.
 * 13) The second chapter's storyline aged well in a way with Australia's ecosystem decline becoming more relevant.
 * 14) The hub areas are much better built for all three of the main Cooper Gang members, with reduced verticality, and Murray and Bentley gets a new move and an upgrade respectively to deal with the verticality, Murray learns the "Aboriginal Ball Form" move which allows him to bounce really high, and Bentley will purchase an upgrade to his wheelchair which adds two more mid air jumps. In addition, both can now pickpocket guards instead of it being restricted to only Sly.
 * 15) The manual of the game comes with 3D glasses included which can be used in certain jobs. This is completely optional.
 * 16) Stuff you steal by pickpocket are immediately turned into coins instead of having to go back to the Safe House and sell them separately.
 * 17) When you press the L3 to locate job points in the overworld now you also get a radar "ping" to indicate their direction.
 * 18) There are bonus missions based on completed story missions called "Master Thief Challenges". These are set with specific restrictions, like time limits or starting the player with 50% health, to make completing them a little more difficult.
 * 19) Great voice acting, mainly by Kevin Miller, Matt Olsen and Chris Murphy.
 * 20) Great soundtrack.
 * 21) The game has an offline two-player mode included, which is a first in the franchise. It consists of four split-screen mini-games:
 * 22) * Cops and Robbers — A one-on-one match in the Venice hub world. Player 1 is Sly, whose objective is to get pieces of loot to their respective locations. Player 2 is Carmelita, whose objective is to defeat Sly before he delivers the loot. The first player to get five points wins.
 * 23) * Biplane Duel — A one-on-one dogfight. Player 1 is Sly, and player 2 is Carmelita. The first player to defeat the other ten times wins.
 * 24) * Hackathon — A co-op hacking game. Player 1 is Bentley, and player 2 is Penelope. Both players work together to get through all the hacking levels with a shared set of lives. If you did not recruit Penelope in the game yet, player 2 will be Sly.
 * 25) * Galleon Duel — A one-on-one naval battle. Player 1 is Sly (with Murray at the helm), and player 2 is Bentley (with Penelope at the helm). The first player to defeat the other three times wins.
 * 26) The final outing with Dr. M is generally agreed to be the best boss of the game, and a final boss fight on par with Clockwerk from the first game for not only putting your skills to the test, but for giving the player a more balanced fight compared to the past bosses.
 * 27) A returning feature from Sly 2; if the player has a PlayStation 2 USB Headset plugged in, the player can use the microphone to distract nearby guards by speaking into it. Additionally, any Binocucom chatter coming from a character out of vocal range of the player will come exclusively through the headset, while all sounds from within the player's vicinity will continue as normal.
 * 28) When obtaining 100%, you get a music video of Dimitri's theme music.
 * 29) Memorable quotes such as "Your mother was a broken down tub of junk with more gentlemen callers than the operator".
 * 30) Some of the minor characters are memorable such as Tony "The Killer" B. and Black Spot Pete.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some things were recycled from Sly 2.
 * 2) *It has the same graphics with no visual enhancements at all.
 * 3) *A number of sound effects were reused.
 * 4) ** The pigeon enemies in Venice use sped-up versions of the noises made by the geese enemies of the last game. The slow-motion gadget (or the speed-up gadget in Sly 2) can be used to check this.
 * 5) ** The flashlight guards of Holland use the same noises every flashlight guard used in Sly 2.
 * 6) ** General Tsao uses the same noises as the Vulture Guards.
 * 7) Some of the new characters feel shoved in since they don't have much screen time or development and barely have any jobs.
 * 8) Carmelita's third voice actress Ruth Livier sounds distracting with her Italian accent.
 * 9) Clue Bottles are gone so there's less incentive to explore the maps of each episode.
 * 10) Treasures are also removed making it difficult to afford gadgets/upgrades. There are more gadgets to purchase on ThiefNet than in the second game, so the removal of treasure makes grinding much more tedious as you're required to pickpocket enemies in masse, or repeatedly destroy/capture pirate ships in the fifth chapter.
 * 11) Episode 2 is the worst episode as most of the jobs have you do boring, mundane tasks, or use vehicles which are boring and tedious too, especially the crane job. The boss of this chapter is generally considered one of the worst bosses in the franchise, being just a floating mask with evil powers.
 * 12) The row boat jobs in the third and fifth chapters are a boring slog due to the boat moving at a slow pace.
 * 13) The pirate sea in the fifth chapter is far too large and you can't even go on the islands.
 * 14) Much shorter than Sly 2, having only 6 episodes, though some of the later episodes are actually around 2.5 to three hours.
 * 15) Just like in Sly 2: Band of Thieves, an audio glitch can occur where the audio suddenly gets crackly and static is applied on the PS3 version of the game, though the checkpoint system was changed from the prequel so that returning to a checkpoint does not reload the area and correct itself as a result.
 * 16) Some of the characters have been flanderized.
 * 17) * While Murray is the muscle and enjoys breaking things in the second game, this is now taken up to eleven, as he borders on sociopath. The guy gleefully throws mine guards into the jaws of a giant crocodile in "Rumble Down Under"!
 * 18) * Carmelita always had black-and-white morality in the first two games, but she previously displayed some nuance about it, especially during the events of the second game where she was briefly stripped of her badge due to Neyla's manipulations. In this game, Carmelita becomes a Knight Templar fully willing to kill criminals instead of arresting them (as seen by her hiring a mercenary unit in Italy), and she's far more hostile to the Cooper Gang than she was in the previous games. Sly lampshades this change in character and Carmelita snaps back that she's gotten tired of the cat and mouse game the two keep playing.
 * 19) In a series that contains many villains with amusing quirks, an awesome presence and sympathetic pasts, with some even redeeming themselves, there are two that are straight up unlikable:
 * 20) * The main villain, Dr. M, was a former member of Sly's father Connor's gang, whose selfishness and lack of empathy define his personality, who believes he is entitled to the riches of the Cooper vault, Sly's rightful inheritance, after Connor's death. Dr. M is introduced slowly killing a henchman over a petty and minor failure, mockingly bringing up said henchman's family and stating he'll never see them again. Dr. M injures and comes close to killing Sly, kills Carmelita's police squad for trying to stop him, and tries to turn Bentley against Sly. Despite all this, he has the audacity to call others selfish for trying to take what's "rightfully" his, and rationalize what he's doing as "self-defense."
 * 21) * General Tsao is a Chinese warlord who takes an arrogant pride in coming from a family line of warriors. The villain of episode 4, Tsao has kidnapped Panda King's daughter Jing to forcibly marry her and merge their "great bloodlines." When Sly confronts him, Tsao says he prefers servants and obedience to love and friendship and states that as a woman, Jing doesn't know up from down which is flat out sexist.

Reception
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves was positively received with reviewers praising its gameplay variety and split-screen multiplayer mode, but criticizing its length, cliffhanger ending, and lack of side character development. It received a GameRankings score of 84.18% and a Metacritic score of 83/100.

Trivia

 * It spawned the "Enough with the sauce" and "Your mother was a broken down tub of junk with more gentlemen callers than the operator" memes.

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