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Description
Sly Cooper is the latest in a long line of master thieves. When he was a kit, a gang called the Fiendish Five killed his family and divided up their book on the art of thieving: the Thievius Raccoonus. Sly must defeat all the members of the gang to recover the book while evading Carmelita Fox, a police officer chasing him around the world to apprehend him.This game is divided into five worlds, each themed around a particular part of the world and the villain headquartered there. Most worlds are structured as a central hub with entrances to numerous individual levels. Each of the levels has a primary goals which earns you a key. You must collect all the keys in the world to fight the world's boss.
Many of the levels have a platformer structure. The objective of these worlds is to reach the location of the key. There are substantial stealth elements here as you must dodge searchlights and trips lasers which set off alarms and avoid alerting guards. In addition to the main objective, there are clue bottles to find. Finding all the clues in a level allows you to open a safe with a page from the Thievius Raccoonus which grants a new ability of some sort. After getting this, there is also a master thief sprint where you must get from the start of a level to the exit within a time limit.
There are also mini-game levels which could be kart-style racing, several varieties of shooter or assorted other tasks, such as collecting objects before your enemies do.
Boss fights also run to several styles, ranging from platforming, to more straightforward combat to puzzles to rhythm to shooter.
All artwork is done in a cel-shaded style and dialogue is fully voiced.
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Alternate Titles
- "怪盜史庫柏" -- Traditional Chinese spelling
- "怪盗 スライ・クーパー" -- Japanese spelling
- "Sly Raccoon" -- European title
- "Kaitō Sly Cooper" -- Japanese title
- "슬라이쿠퍼: 전설의 비법서를 찾아서" -- Korean spelling (Hangul)
Part of the Following Groups
- Animals: Foxes
- Animals: Raccoons
- Console Generation Exclusives: PlayStation 2
- Game feature: Developer commentary
- PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
- Setting: Chinese
- Sly Cooper series
- Visual technique / style: Cel shaded
User Reviews
Stick with It, Kid | PlayStation 2 | Ace of Sevens (4471) |
A true guilty pleasure...even for adult gamers | PlayStation 2 | diglot.net (28) |
An inventive platformer. | PlayStation 2 | DarkDove (68) |
An overlooked game. I wonder why. | PlayStation 2 | Gary Smith (15) |
Perfect | PlayStation 2 | ThE oNe (184) |
Critic Reviews
Game Vortex | PlayStation 2 | 2002 | 98 out of 100 | 98 |
Gaming Target | PlayStation 2 | Nov 12, 2002 | 9.4 out of 10 | 94 |
Gamers' Temple, The | PlayStation 2 | 2002 | 93 out of 100 | 93 |
games xtreme | PlayStation 2 | Feb 16, 2003 | 9 out of 10 | 90 |
Gamesmania.de | PlayStation 2 | Jan 29, 2003 | 88 out of 100 | 88 |
IGN | PlayStation 2 | Sep 20, 2002 | 8.5 out of 10 | 85 |
Game Revolution | PlayStation 2 | Oct, 2002 | B+ | 83 |
Jeuxvideo.com | PlayStation 2 | Jan 17, 2003 | 16 out of 20 | 80 |
VicioJuegos.com / uVeJuegos.com | PlayStation 2 | Apr 21, 2009 | 79 out of 100 | 79 |
The Video Game Critic | PlayStation 2 | Jan 08, 2004 | B- | 67 |
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Trivia
1001 Video Games
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.Japanese version differences
The Japanese release of the game is somewhat different from the North American and PAL releases. This is most visible in the intro and ending cinematics, which are fully animated instead of using limited flash sequences like in the international versions. There is also a slight dialogue difference, with Carmelita counting down her "10 second head start" instead of Sly. The PAL version has both cutscenes available when unlocked, while the North American version only has the Japanese intro.Furthermore, the Japanese release has a 3-minute demo of the game with the vocal song Blackjack that appears after 30 seconds of the player's inactivity in the main menu.
Utah inaccuracy
Mesa City, the location of level two of the game is portrayed as being in Utah. In reality it could not be, as the casinos central to this level are outlawed in this majority-LDS state.PlayStation 2 Credits (93 people)
80 developers, 13 thanks
Sly Cooper Team:
Chris Zimmerman, Karin Madan, Andrew Woods, Caroline Trujillo, Ian Stout, David Stiner, Matthew Siems, Darren Rice, Darrell Plank, Augie Pagan, Bruce Oberg, Matthew Morgaine, Rob McDaniel, Dev Madan, Hokyo Lim, Travis Kotzebue, Suzanne Kaufman, Reid Johnson, Chris Heidorn, Nate Fox, Brian Fleming, Kelle DeForrest, Gary Burd, Chris Bentzel, Marquel Basurto Sr.