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Thief Gold (c) Looking Glass / Eidos Interactive

Supplier.....: Brigitte Bardot    │  Release Date...: Month 10 '99
Cracker......: Roman Polanski     │  Game Type......: 3D Action
# of Disks...: 2,88 x 48          │  Game Rating....: 90%

REQUIREMENTS: Win9X, CPU 200 MHZ, 32 MB RAM, 500 MB HD, DX6.1+, DXMedia

RELEASE NOTES:

Thief: The Dark Project revolutionized the tired first person genre by
using a complex environmental simulation, coupled with a sophisticated
artificial intelligence system to create a rich, immersive game world
which supports its core gameplay - stealth, strategy, and suspense.

In Thief Gold we've further fine tuned the original missions to reflect
some of the customer feedback we have received since shipping Thief:
The Dark Project. Additionally, we have included 3 all new missions that
will support the back story with more detail and allow us to further
develop the principal characters.

Thieves Guild

Garrett has heard that the Downwind thieves guild has pulled off a daring
heist, stealing Lord Randall's Sapphire Vase However, they are now
squabbling among themselves about how to share the loot. Garrett decides
to go in and steal it himself: because of their internal arguments, they
won't blame him. He intends to break in through a gambling den they
operate, the Overlord's Fancy.

Mage's Guild

In the ruined city, the Keeper Chapel revealed that the Mage's Tower was
the hiding place for the Talisman of Air. Garrett breaks into the Mages'
Tower to steal the Air Talisman. The Talisman is being held in the central
Tower of the Mages' Towers, secured by spells. To free the Talisman, one
master mage from each of the towers has to stand on a particular pedestal
and touch his ring to a symbol. Garrett must find his way to the Central
Library, unlock its doors with items found in the Towers, then unlock the
door to the Talisman Room to get the Talisman.

Songs of the Caverns

Garrett searches for the Talisman of Water, which has been hidden in an
underground cavern deep below the city. However he soon learns that
someone else has already stolen the Talisman and his only clues as to who
has beat him to it are the ravings of a lunatic hermit.

FEATURES:

- Success requires more than firepower - use stealth and intellect to
outwit your enemies.

- Unique weapons help you achieve your goals: Use your Blackjack to
knockout unsuspecting opponents, a noise arrow to throw them off the
trail, moss bombs to silence your footsteps in stone corridors, and if
these don't keep you out of sight, it might be time to resort to more
drastic measures, like a fire arrow, or your trusty sword.

- The revolutionary "Dark Engine" TM provides advanced environmental
simulation never before achieved in a PC game.

- Advanced AI includes creatures with "hearing" capabilities, which react
to sounds in the environment - so step lightly across the stones and
look for carpeted areas to sneak past enemies.

- Improvise tactics in a fluid, ever-changing game world, without the
restrictions of conventional game engines.

- Provides realistic simulation of fire, water, wind and their effects in
the game environment: flammable objects catch fire, buoyant objects
float, heavy objects can be used to block doors.

- Advanced graphics engine with multiple texture resolutions, dynamic
lighting.

NEW FEATURES:

- 3 all new missions, woven into the original 12 missions. These are not
just slapped onto the end!

- Better tuned game play in all missions.

- Challenging new opponent that will test your skills: The Mages

- Includes EAX and joystick support.

INSTALLATION:

Unzip and unace manually or run our installer to install/unpack the game.
Then unace the motiondb.ace to your gamedir. Run Setup.bat to decompress
sounds. Finally can play with Thief.exe.

Goldskip.exe allows you to select the starting mission (you could also
edit your user.cfg yourself, no cheesy levelskip-cheat needed ;).

Enjoy this great game - and if you like it, remember to buy it!

RIPPED:

Movies and editor - yup, nothing else :)

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