Thief [Xbox One]

This game absolutely doesn't live up to the quality of the earlier Thief games. Had it been released soon after the last installment in the series, this might have been a solid game, but in 2014, selling for $60 on a next-gen console, it's pathetic. It's like they walked into a bar, found the dumbest, drunkest people in the room and told them to re-create Assassin's Creed, without the open world, in a steampunk-ish victorian-like city full of brain-dead AI. The story is atrocious, the voice acting is somehow even worse, and the gameplay doesn't come close to making up for it. Save your money and wait until the price drops to $20, then buy it for the sheer entertainment value of such hilariously stupid writing.Update: I decided to add to my review, in light of all of the 5 star reviews advising readers to ignore the 1 star reviews, with the general insinuation being that we hate this game because we're a bunch of knuckle-dragging Call of Duty players, insufficiently intelligent or sophisticated enough to appreciate a stealth game. In reality, when I pre-ordered this game, I understood that this wasn't going to be an action-packed shooter, and despite my tongue-in-cheek reference to Assassin's Creed in my original review, I didn't expect it to be that either, but what I did expect was a truly great stealth game, and the developers fed that expectation by naming it after a beloved classic franchise. While I'm not a huge fan of the stealth game genre above all others, I've played plenty of these games that were as slow-paced as this one, but still thoroughly engrossing and entertaining for hours on end. This game however, is not. The deficiencies that I mentioned in my earlier review, and countless others that I've encountered in the hours of gameplay since writing it(including terrible sound mixing and NPCs that are little more than manequins and potted plants, etc) wouldn't detract much from a game if one or two of these issues were to pop up. But once all of these problems pile up in the aggregate, the result is a game that I didn't find remotely immersive, compelling, or intellectually challenging. Basically, what I'm saying is that the slow pace of this type of game is only a problem in this particular case because the game offers nothing else to maintain interest hour after hour. So, if you're part of the subset of gamers that absolutely LOVES this genre and you're desparate to get your hands on a new stealth game to play, regardless of any glaring deficiencies, then you may thoroughly enjoy this one and not have any regrets about dropping $60 on it. For everyone else, buyer beware.