Great game and I am amazed at the depth and game physics at the early years. Having played other first person RPG like oblivion and dark messiah, I could say thief TDP is on par with all those. The mission is unique and fun but it could get a bit annoying if you do not have a clue what you are doing. So get a walkthrough is a good thing if you want a fluid gaming experience. But try it yourself first and you will see the beauty of this game! I am waiting for thief 2 on GG to play it lol.

Thief is easily in my top ten favorite games of all time. It features fantastic voice work, art direction, and atmosphere, as well as one of the most interesting protagonists ever. Garrett is truly a master thief, and while he might be trying to look out for number one, he finds himself embroiled in intrigues that force him to question just how far being truly selfish will get him.

Though the engine is sadly somewhat dated, the aforementioned things plus the incredible open-ended stealth game play make it much more tolerable. This is one of the few stealth games that really does things right.

After you have a chance to play this, check out the third game in the series, Deadly Shadows, also here on GG.

The classic stealth game! Takes a little getting used to the retro looks of the game, but with a little mod magic from here:

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449

you can pretty it up a little. Sam Fisher, Solid Snake and countless others owe their success to Garret - the grandfather of stealth. Contains some of the most stylish cutscenes of early gaming that still play triumphantly within my mind today.

Thief takes place from a first-person perspective in a 3D environment.

The player character may lean, crouch, climb, swim and run.

He is caught while attempting to pickpocket a suspicious man.

He is contracted to steal a sword........

Play the game and you will see that the story in this game is so good !

I love ( when I play this game ) the sound and the music in the game !

And I wont to play this game again ! The good games is good games forever !

You'll guide Thief's charismatic protagonist through a dozen missions, over the course of which a serious, surprising story will develop.

Although there aren't many missions, most of them are huge, and more rewarding at higher difficulty levels because you'll have many more objectives to accomplish.

There's further cause to want to try a mission more than once if only because the nature of the game is such that you can accomplish your task in many different ways, but in the end, you'll still wish the game was longer.

I didn’t expect to run it on Windows 7. However, this morning I did get to the sword fight in the tutorial before having to go to work. Before setting the affinity of the Cpu (I have a quad core, and I want this game to use only one core), the game would crash after trying to start the tutorial (haven't tried skipping the tutorial).

I set the compatibility settings for the Thief.exe to Windows XP (SP 2), and then created a batch file to set the affinity to one core of my cpu.

I placed this in thief.bat in the folder with the Thief.exe file:

“c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 .\Thief.exe”

Here's where I learned this trick:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/start-an-application-assigned-to-a-specific-cpu-in-windows-vista/

Basically, scroll down and in the comments you can see that the number passed after “/affinity” is a hex number 1-F for enabling all core combinations possible in a 4 core system.

First, a warning for those of you with modern operating systems: I haven't been able to get this to run on Windows Vista or Windows 7. If you have XP or earlier, or some sort of Windows emulator, then you're in for a treat: Thief is one of the finest games ever made, period. Excellent (and revolutionary for the time) sneaking mechanics, an intriguing story and one of the best main characters in videogame history. If you can run it, at its current price there is no reason NOT to buy this classic.