Victory Game Center

Doug Church wrote: Looking at games and talking to other developers, they’re still struggling with issues we were struggling with then. We don’t as an industry seem to move very far. It’s so weird. I hear words about the influence [of Thief] occasionally, but I don’t see a real drive towards doing that sort of thing. That’s reasonable, but it makes it harder to feel there’s a real influence.

It’s something that tends to be namechecked rather than actually be a concrete influence, I think.

Jake Adelstein wrote: She let me into his apartment once, late at night. I knew his bodyguard was in the apartment next door or had been told that. And as I was sneaking around inside looking for what I needed, taking a photograph of it when I found it – and those damn Japanese phones always make a fucking shutter sound as do many of the cameras – I thought, ‘Jesus Christ, this is a lot like being in Thief.’ Really terrifying. I felt like every noise I made was amplified ten thousand times. I couldn’t turn on the lights either. I had a very limited time frame.

Fyodor Dostoevky wrote: He unhooked the door, opened it, and began listening on the stairs. He listened for a long time. Somewhere far away, downstairs, probably in the gateway, two voices were shouting loudly and shrilly, arguing and swearing. "What's that about?" He waited patiently. At last everything became quiet all at once, as though cut off; they went away. He was on the point of going out when suddenly, one floor below, the door to the stairs was noisily opened and someone started to go down humming a tune. "How is it they all make so much noise?" flashed through his head. He again closed the door behind him and waited. At last everything fell silent; there was not a soul. He had already stepped out to the stairs when again, suddenly, some new footsteps were heard.

The sound of these steps came from very far away, from the very bottom of the stairs, but he remembered quite well and distinctly how, right then, at the first sound, he had begun for some reason to suspect that they must be coming here, to the fourth floor, to the old woman's. Why? Could the sound have been somehow peculiar, portentous? The steps were heavy, regular, unhurried. Now he was already past the first floor, now he was ascending further, his steps were getting louder and louder. The heavy, short-winded breathing of the approaching man became audible. Now he was starting up the third flight ... Here! And it suddenly seemed to him as though he had turned to stone, as though he were in one of those dreams where the dreamer is being pursued, the pursuers are close, they are going to kill him, and he is as if rooted to the spot, unable even to move his arms.

Fyodor Dostoevky wrote: He couldn’t even rob, all he could do was kill!

Adrian Chmielarz wrote: The convincing, immersive game world needs to be indifferent to the player and the player needs to feel like an intruder.

- 10 huge, open-ended and meticulously crafted missions with varied themes packed with content.
- A brand new protagonist thrown into a dark, intricately woven story of crime and conspiracies.
- 4 new tools happily supplied by the undermarket, at a price.
- Many tweaks to the AI to make the game a bit more challenging but still fair.
- A brand new "banter" system where AIs greet each other during their rounds and nightly life.
- 28 voiced characters totaling roughly 1,800 new lines of dialogue.
- 30 minutes of gorgeous hand-drawn briefings and cutscenes.
- Brand new AI motions making the denizens of The City look more alive.
- Full English subtitles.