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Thief: The Dark Project

  • Video Game
  • 1998
  • M
IMDb RATING
8.7/10
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Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
ActionAdventureCrimeDramaFantasyHorrorSci-FiThriller

Unbeknownst to him, a cynical but witty master-thief Garrett will become a key player in the secret war between the cult of builders and the cult of pagans in a medieval city where certain t... Read allUnbeknownst to him, a cynical but witty master-thief Garrett will become a key player in the secret war between the cult of builders and the cult of pagans in a medieval city where certain types of magic and advanced technology exist.Unbeknownst to him, a cynical but witty master-thief Garrett will become a key player in the secret war between the cult of builders and the cult of pagans in a medieval city where certain types of magic and advanced technology exist.

  • Directors
    • Daniel Thron
    • Josh Randall
  • Writers
    • Terri Brosius
    • Dorian Hart
    • Ken Levine
  • Stars
    • Stephen Russell
    • Joffrey Spaulding
    • Terri Brosius
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.7/10
    777
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Daniel Thron
      • Josh Randall
    • Writers
      • Terri Brosius
      • Dorian Hart
      • Ken Levine
    • Stars
      • Stephen Russell
      • Joffrey Spaulding
      • Terri Brosius
    • 9User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Stephen Russell
    • Garrett
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    Joffrey Spaulding
    • Constantine
    • (voice)
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    Terri Brosius
    • Viktoria
    • (voice)
    Daniel Thron
    • Ramirez
    • (voice)
    • …
    Randy Smith
    • Murus
    • (voice)
    Geoffrey Stewart
    • Guards
    • (voice)
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    Andy Meuse
    • Prisoner
    • (voice)
    Nate Wells
    • Keepers
    • (voice)
    Josh Randall
    • Keepers
    • (voice)
    Emil Pagliarulo
    • Opera singers
    • (voice)
    Karen Wolff
    • Opera songstress
    • (voice)
    Mike Romatelli
    • Thieves
    • (voice)
    Mike Chrzanowski
    • Thieves
    • (voice)
    Ian Vogel
    • Mages
    • (voice)
    Fred Galpern
    • Mages
    • (voice)
    • (as Fred S. Galpern)
    Karen Saltus
    • Servant
    • Directors
      • Daniel Thron
      • Josh Randall
    • Writers
      • Terri Brosius
      • Dorian Hart
      • Ken Levine
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    10dullfinboy

    Second best game in the series

    This is one of the best games ever made. It is scary, addicting, has hours of game play. You rob crypts, mansions, and even haunted cathedrals. The game is loaded with zombies, hammer haunts, hammerites, guards, spiders, ghosts, bug men, and a great plot twist. The best level is the sword where you must get a sword from a crazy mansion owned by Constantine. It is a dark game. Sometimes you may need to turn the gamma up. It takes patience and skill. It is a really stealth game. It is the most fun to play on the expert setting. It is fun not to kill or knock out anyone or anything. It has a dark and mature atmosphere. Definitely a great game.
    8dnights

    I like "Thief" I describe it and give praise.

    "Thief: The Dark Project" is one of the great breakthroughs in modern role playing video games. It provides the player, with not only with a great time, but it has a interesting plot line that will keep you hooked on it. It has wonderful art direction, and a unique stylish quality, with outstanding and creative characters and creatures. The creators have made a world in which modern aspects is put into a medieval time. You wander that world as a solitary thief named "Garrett". You go on missions in some of the most creative and unique places, and watch as the suspenseful ploy unwraps itself. I recommend this game to people who like to solve problems and riddles. It's not just a game, it's a revolution.
    10davidow-1

    the best video game ever

    Thief The Dark Project isn't just a video game it's much more than that. I think it is a revolution in entertainment and truly a real masterpiece given to the masses. Everithing is made perfectly-the story, the style and atmosphere, the sound and even the graphics. I remember every mission that I completed and the more I got into the thief world I couldn't stop playing day and night, the whole thing was so gripping. Garret, the main character of the game is one of the greatest game heroes ever created. This is a one of it's kind and a must to anyone who loves stealth and adventure games. So don't doubt to get this because it's totally worth the money.
    newnoir

    Sneaksie Friends Garrett Lives!

    This game brought about a whole new revolution in video gaming. It was the first ever first person sneaker. Yes, finally a game where stealth is involved. Up until that time all there was was first person shooters. Though you may find yourself getting fed up with sneaking around at times and just want to slaughter all your enemies like any other FPS. But hey, whatever floats yer boat.

    It is game that follows the adventures of the cynical thief Garrett and combines medieval fantasy with 19th century technology. The game's a cool hybrid much like how the TV show Wild, Wild West combined Westerns and Science Fiction. As is the sequel Thief II.

    There are great monsters and enemies to battle. Guards, spiders, and the great ratmen. I loved the off the wall, A Clockwork Orange-esque way of talking the ratdudes had. And their eerie catch phrases like calling each other "sneaksie friends" and the game's hero, the cynical Garrett, "manflesh". And you will too, sneaksie friends!

    Plus my favorites the Hammerites, a religious nut group of knights, are terrific foes too. The Hammerite prison level is absolutely kickarse. Sneaking about the Hammerites in the shadows as they go about their duties, talking to themselves, singing songs, reciting Hammerite scripture, evading their medieval style motion detectors, blackjacking or shooting an arrow into an unsuspecting Hammer, it's great fun!

    And major kudos goto the programmers and Stephen Russell as the voice of our beloved hero Garrett. Adios two times...
    10LordLucansGhost

    The Godfather of stealth gaming

    The original Thief game and possibly the best of them so far. Back in the late 1990s there was nothing to touch it, we'd never seen anything quite like it before and even today it remains one of my personal favourites.

    It still has the great atmosphere it always did, despite the graphics being obviously out of date by today's standards. But graphics aside, there's no denying the game has a fantastic story, with a genuine evil mastermind which you spend the second half of the game hunting down. It leads Garrett through a world of murky streets, stately manors, tunnels and labyrinths to name a few, filled by many colourful and interesting characters, with some of the best and funniest banter between guards you'll ever hear.

    Thief : Dark Project is as frightening as it is exciting, with only basic weapons at your disposal, you'll always feel vulnerable. You're most powerful weapons in this game are your ears and your eyes, quite different to the usual slasher/shooter games up until that point.

    Play The Dark Project again and again. It's the original and what other stealth games should learn by, including I'm afraid, the makers of there latest Thief entry.

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      On the level the haunted cathedral you can destroy the three haunts in the cathedral through the hole in the cathedral but when you return there 3 missions later the 3 haunts are back.
    • Quotes

      Garrett: I Went to Cutty's place to deliver the spetar but Cutty wasn't there he had been arrested by the hammerites apparently they didn't approve of his occupation , and I doubt they approve of mine so hopefully they will never catch sight of me when I break them out of there prison which is what I'm going to do. They are holding Cutty in a mining complex carved out of a quarry the quarry is flooded but the hammers still work the top level, and have converted part of the complex in to a penitentiary for those who have violate their tenants . An associate of mine was confined there and has provided me with a map. It would be difficult to get in by way of the main gate but there is another option the mines break the surface of a hill south of the quarry I will drop into the mines and head into the prison which will be found somewhere up hill and to the north. The Hammers don't venture into the lower mine levels because they are reputed to be haunted.

      [Angrily]

      Garrett: I'd rather not have to do this job but Cutty is a reliable fence, and I don't appreciate the Hammerites abducting him,and he

      [Cutty]

      Garrett: still owes me money for the Bafford job!

    • Connections
      Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #20.12 (1999)

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      • December 3, 1998 (United States)
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      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Dark Project: La Guilde des voleurs
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      • Looking Glass Studios
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