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Sly 2 - Band of Theives - more fun features!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved Sly Cooper and the Thevious Raccoonus so naturally when I finished the game I purchased Sly 2 Band of Theives. This game has a lot of cool new features - you can play as Sly, Murry or Bently (in fact you have to since each charater has different 'strengths' to help you. Plus, you can buy special moves using money/stuff you collect throughout the game.

I did however prefer the layout of Sly Cooper and the Thevious Raccoonus....each level in that game was varied more so the game was always fun and different. Sly 2 had the basic same levels almost....it was very repetitive in what needed to be accomplished.

Sly Cooper is Sly! (Excuse the pun)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Sly Cooper is one of the best games ever! Basically you play as
Sly: Pick-Pocketing, Cane Moves, Climbing, and smoke bombs.
Bentley: Sleep Darts, Mines, Bombs.
Murray: Punches (basically thats all but different (fun)) kinds.

This game begins with the gang trying to steal back Clockworks parts. Sly finds out that the Klaww Gang has stolen them. Sly sets out on a mission to get them back and this time, with the help of his friends!

Very Fun , INDEED! All levels are cool!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What a spectacular game! Seriously! Sly Cooper and The Theivous
Racconus would make you feel right in the battlefield while you
battle through a ship town imn the middle of The Bermuda Triang-
le, then through Mesa City in Utah, then through the mystical j-
ungles of Haiti, then through China, then in the Krack Karov V-
olcano in Russia. But this is better, with Sly 3 Honor among
Thieves is being published,(the levels are through Venice and
Holland, The Outback and China)you could be playing Sly 2 Band
of Thieves while you fight through Paris, India, Prague (in Cz-
echslovakia) Canada, and a blimp above Paris I think but if you
need help on the following KLAWW gang members here it is...

Dimitri, He was first summon a electric ring on his finger and
will try to blast you, hide behind a slime barrel, then after
three shots he will throw the next one and it will run out of
juice... go to him and give him the coup de gras` watch out for
his lunge and uppercut hand fist, when you go to round II he will have his tail swip but dodge it, keep doing this till he is
defeated... LOCATION: Paris

Rajan, This time you play Murray, okay, he maybe the toughest
one on the team but Rajan can kill him! first before the duel,
Murray get the high jump thing off the Internet in the safehouse
okay? well he will swing the staff of Clockwerk's heart at you,
so dodge that, give him a few more hits, then he will raise his
staff, RUN ONTO A LILY PAD! the electricy from the heart will s-
hock the drained water instead, repeat this til' victory is yours! LOCATION: Jungles of India

Contessa, she has two rounds, she is the easiet one to defeat,
she will swipe at you then stop! hit her, she will fall, run!
the eight-legged "cow" wil try to stab you with her tentacles,
then, victory is your by the first round, Bentley or Murray will
do his mission then this time, when you fight Contessa, she will
have her hypnotism power, when her tenacles get long, hide between em' then swipe her until victory is yours. LOCATION: top of Prague building

Jean` Bison` This time you be Bentley, of course a 3.3 feet tall
turtle can fight a 7.0 feet bisen. But Sly took the liberty to
summon saws, lumber trees, and flames, Square is saws, Triangle
is lumber, Circle is flames but that's what I think now, keep
doing it till he has dynamite, watch out for that be keep givin'
him beatibng til' he blacks out, Lumbermill of Canada

Clock-La, Of course you were supposed to put Arpeggio out of his
misery but Neyla, his apprentice in which betrayed Carmelita in
Episode III, jumped in Clock-la and swiped the bird and dropped
his eyepiece, then later you become Carmelita's Gunner, now this
is the toughest boss in the game. So she will throw projectile,
then she's done, shoot a bird and wound er' then she will throw
rung with electricy, shoot the heart of the ring then let it c-
ome to you, you will NOT take damage, then, shoot her until the
following scene, then paraglide to Clock-La, that made me sad,
cause all the destruction destroyed Arpeggio's blimp even the
cut-in-half Arpeggio. When I got to Clock-La, I destroyed her!
then, well, she falls somewhere in the town of Paris, then Mu-
rray go's and opens Clock-La's mouth and Bentley and Sly go and
remove the Hate Chip from the mouth, Bentley puts a Trigger B-
omb on her and she injured Bentley, (Bentley returns in a wheel
chair in Sly 3) then when Murray removes the mouth and gets the
turtle they run from Clock-La while she explodes then you have
completed the game!

Proving the law of sequels

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sly 2: Band of Thieves is the much-anticipated sequel to the blockbuster platformer Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, released in 2002. That was around the same time that the other two franchise giants of PS2 platformers, Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank, debuted. Both of these games were phenomenal successes too, though in different ways: Jak was about acrobatic puzzle solving and Ratchet was all about blowing stuff up with a myriad of cool guns. Sly was about stealth and speed, attacking only when necessary, with a much less forgiving hit point system: one hit and you're out.

The Jak & Daxter and the Ratchet & Clank teams both managed to put out a second game only a year after the first of each respective series was released, and managed to make the games bigger, better, and more visually stunning. The guys at Sucker Punch took two years to get Sly 2 out, though, and the rate of return turns out to be less than expected. The game's much larger and longer, fixing one of the few faults of the first one, and instead of being based on traditional level structures, it uses a "mission" system with occasional visits to small levels based around a large central area where most of the action takes place, similar to Grand Theft Auto III or Jak II. You can also take multiple hits without dying, though this was a necessary change because of the more difficult nature of the enemies. Overall, though, game doesn't live up to the expectations of a top-level platformer.

The biggest problem I have with the game is the homogeneity of some of the levels. The game consists of 8 grand episodes, each with its own location, plot structure and set of missions. This episodical structure is a great opportunity for game designers to create a full, diverse world (see the Ratchet & Clank series for the ideal execution of this concept). In Sly 2, for reasons I can't begin to understand, episodes 2/3, 4/5, and 6/7 are in only slightly varied locations (i.e. an Indian palace near a jungle in 2, and an Indian palace inside the jungle in 3). This obviously let them reuse a lot of the resources like textures and enemies, but this kind of frugality makes the game feel cheap. If I get 8 episodes, I expect 8 distinct locales... like the 5 completely distinct ones in the first Sly game. I was rather tired of jungles by the end of episode 3, really tired of gothic Prague by the end of episode 5, and completely sick of snowy tundra at the end of episode 7.

The second major flaw in the game are the earned/purchased skills. Only 2 or 3 of all the skills Sly and his buddies can acquire are actually useful (like the glider); the rest are battle skills I just never used. I got them, but they just kind of sat there. You certainly don't need any of them to fight any of the battles, with only one or two rare exceptions. Also, you can only have 3 active and usable at a time, meaning the impetus to never use the others is very strong. There's a few really nice moves from Sly 1 that weren't brought over, too, like the power roll. The makers of Jak II understood that a character in a sequel should be able to gain new moves while retaining the ones from the previous game.

The third and most major flaw borders on a sin: there's no replayability. None. Once you get 100%, you're done. And you get 100% just by completing the missions, not by doing any side quests or secret item collection. Why in god's name they couldn't have spent an extra week or two putting in some simple but entertaining second-time-through features, or at least some secondary goals like the timed runs in Sly 1, is beyond me. You rent games with no replayability, you don't buy them.

Other, more minor flaws involved things like the voice acting, which were sub-par on some of the secondary characters, most notably Carmelita Fox. Especially at the beginning of the game. Also, some of the controls were a bit irritating, like Sly's penchant for perching on the edge of things even when you don't want him to. Finally, I was incredibly disappointed to get the coolest move in the game (a hyper-jump that makes him jump 4-5 times higher) near the end of the last episode, only to have it taken away immediately after that mission ended. You just lose it, no explanation given, and you never get it back.

Despite all these flaws, there's a few things about this game that I really enjoyed. First of all was the retention of the cell-shaded animation style used in the first game, along the comic-book cut scenes and campy action sound effects. The second was the whole scope of the game: while Sly 1 was noticeably short, Sly 2 is a fully-featured game with large, sprawling levels and numerous clever missions. Getting to play Murray (the strong, stupid hippo) and Bentley (the weak, super-intelligent turtle) separately from Sly is a nice touch too, though I really wish they'd have made it so that you could choose which character to use on some missions, rather than forcing it on you all the time.

So, yeah, a decent game with some pretty large flaws. In the end, I just can't recommend buying this, especially since Ratchet 3 and Jak 3 are also out now. My advice is, rent this game, and save your $40 for one of those other two games.

Booya

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the bomb. IT is so much fun when you buy all the power ups! Murry is so cool to play with. I really liked the first Sly game and theis one overpassed it by a mile!!!

Sly 2 is awesome! Better than the first!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just got the second sly game and I really love it. They made some major imporovements in the game and the storyline is great! I think I am going to get this game for BOTH my lil cousin and my niece. They are going to love it! It is just sooo much fun and on their level! A must have and a great present for the holidays for sure!

joe

Sly Cooper 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 55
Date: April 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It kinda sucks not knowing what the game is about but I hope that they create a new story that is better than the old and that they make the game longer.Go buy Sly cooper 1 if you don't already own it you will not regret it.Wow! I'm the first to review this game.
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Kids LOVE Sly!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Both my girls (ages 11 and 9) LOVE Sly Cooper and would play any of the 3 games all day if I let them.

My son loves Sly!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have a 7 year old son who got play statation for Chrsitmas. At that time we had bought him the first Sly and he loved it. There were some parts that were difficult for him and I helped him but he got very good at it. So once he finished we bought him Sly 2 and he has enjoyed it as much as he did the first Sly. I would highly recommend it.

I hope they make a part 3!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the coolest thiefing game ever.You can to Egypt,France,India,Czech Repulic(A place in europe),Canada,and some blimp.It's the best thing ever!

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