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I'm impressed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off when I bought this game I was thinking 'A raccoon with a stick, how can that be fun', well after playing the game almost none stop I am afraid to say that I was dead wrong, the game is extremely fun. The whole game is based on Sly Cooper trying to get back his family book of how to steal things. You have to find all the clues in a level to crack a safe to get a page back for this thief book. Every page you get awards Sly Cooper a new skill or upgrade, one of my favorites was the slow motion skill. Let me elaborate, lets say a villain is throwing stars at you, well just hit the slow motion button and jump and you can easily dodged his stars and it looks kind of like the Matrix. There are all kinds of skills that a master thief would need, you can turn invisible, do the tight ropewalk etc... One thing that makes this game a plus is when you die and it's game over, instead of starting from a save point you start the level over again with five lives and the stuff that you collected while in the level before you died will stay with you, so you wont have to collect again (Which would get very repetitive and boring). The game's replay value is high; so far I haven't gotten bored of it. The buttons are pretty simple, for special jumps the button you press is circle and for skills like slow motion the button is triangle. You can switch between different skills so there are no combinations of buttons to press just to do one simple jump.

This is a must have and you wont be wasting your money.

By Far the Best Family Game on PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This Game is completely awesome, even a year after release it is by far the best game on PS2 for kids. It is non violent, entertaining and it is as much fun to watch as it is to play. It is a nice mixture of stealth and action game play. Graphically it is one of the most beautiful games on PS2. With the glut of terrible games for kids that came out this past year, Sly Cooper is refreshing and highly recommended.

Exelent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've had this game for a couple of month's now. It's a great game overall, there's really nothing wrong with the gameplay, audio graphics and it never gets boring. The only thing that could be changed and was changed in sly 2 is that you don't really have any freedom in roaming around the enviroments. I reccomend this game to anyone but you should buy it with sly 2 and the upcoming sly 3 (Supposedly coming out in fall 2005)

Very fun, short...but long?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sly Cooper is a racoon born into a family of theives. One night, a gang called the "Fiendish Five" broke into his house and took his family's book on thievery, the "Thevious Racoonus". They tore the book into five pieces and left. Now, Sly has grown up and has sworn to get it back.

You start out on a training mission, that teaches you the basics of the game. From this point, the game gets fun. You sneak through different levels through the game, dodging lasers, enemies, searchlights, finding keys, to unlock further levels and paths to the bosses, and bottles, which contain clues to safes which contain special moves and techniques. After find all the keys in the levels of the area, you an unlock the boss path and face off, and winning gets you some of the Theivious Racoonus back, and techniques needed for the next area.

The game may be short to beat, but long to complete! There are time attack runs which really make you rush, and you must find bottles in levels to open chests. This game is recommended to people who like Crash, Sonic and Mario.

Very Cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a game I am extremely excited about. If you have not seen it you can get the demo just about anywhere, Sony must be crop dusting with these things, I have seen it three times already in the gaming magazines. I also had a chance to play it at Ozzfest (Sony trucks) where they were showing considerably more of the game.

The first thing that drew my attention to this game was the graphical look. The game looks absolutely amazing. The demo is by far the best looking game I have ever seen on my HDTV. The art and design get high praise. I am having fun with it and my kids are really enjoying it as well (I have an 11 and 8 year old). The play control is really nice, it has a good feel and the movement is fast and reacts great.

The personalities of the different characters is really well done. The whole game follows a thief theme and you feel like you are "Sly Cooper" and part of the action. I have seen sites calling it a Metal Gear parody, this is not how I would describe the game. The stealth is not patience based or "lock you in room" and keep trying until you get it, it is more action based: moving spotlights, running around in a barrel, hidding from guards, dodging lazers. I really enjoyed the premise and execution of the game.

Great game for older kids and adults!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 8 year old recently. He has really been enjoying it. I've only played a few areas, but I thought it was fun also. I like that it has fun little mini games in it. Like trying to keep crabs from taking treasure chests into their holes. Or racing against these dogs and having to come in first to win a key. If you are thinking of getting this for a child I would say it is a little hard for a child much younger than 8. My son has played video games and computer games since he was pretty young. He has found a few of the mini game areas frustrating. Which is why I played them and it took me a few tries to beat them. :)As I tell my son, if it were too easy it wouldn't be any fun. If you enjoy games like Jak and Daxter and Crash Bandicoot I think you will like this game.

Suprising Rental

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

So, the other day, I went to my friends house and we were looking for a video game at Blockbuster. We couldn't really find anything we liked so I saw Sly Cooper and I thought, "Well it looked pretty good in snapshots and reviews I've read, so why not??" We went back and started playing and it was so addictive and exciting we didn't stop playing until 12:30 at night. The first thing that grabbed me was the graphics. Beautiful, enthralling and nicely cel-shaded. The graphics are so good looking that you hold your breath when you jump from roof-to-roof. The music and voice acting are great too. The beat and sounds on the third member of the fearsome five was so funny. The voice acting has you hanging onto their every word. The mini-games fit in nicely with the plot and meld together with the level theme. The only bad things I can think of are that the controls are a bit challenging to use even after you learn the control scheme. And that, unfortunately, it wasn't very challenging. In one day we were about fifty per-cent through the game. The bosses are hilarious and so is the invisibility power. (level 3, after defeating the main boss.)I would recommend this game for anyone from about 6 to 17. Just because anyone 17-year-old with extensive video game knowledge and skill would find the game to simple. I would recommend renting the game before buying it. Just for the fact that you may find it simple, or challenging enough for your liking.

A very rewarding departure from the standard platformer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: September 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Most platformers today are more or less the same. Same ideas, same objectives with the same old cliche's. Sly Cooper is about to break that trend. Make no mistake, it does share similarities with various platformers, but it adds enough depth and play mechanics to seperate itself from the pack while still remainng quite fun. The game revolves alot around stealth, ala MGS, but fuses it together with platformer elements. Instead of jumping around mindlessly as in most platformers, Sly makes you think just what is the best route to get to a certain objective, as there will often be diffrent traps and other enemies or the like but there is always different routes to take rather than a set path for every objective. Each path will vary on difficulty and strategy. It might me to jump into a barrel and tip toe around an enemy or radar, or perhaps scurry up a high wire, or maybe swing from rope to rope. There are plenty of various situations where different skills or tactics will be needed, so everything does not become monotonous. Thankfully, the game itself handles wondefully, with very fluid and responsive control. Sly himself has diffrent abilities such as jumping, rolling, running, and and uses his odd-shaped cane as his primary 'weapon'. There are also your typical coin collecting for extra lives and you can also collect a few bottles in each level, to unlock a secret move for Sly to have at his desposure. So the little collecting there is in the game is quite rewarding. Another great aspect is the mini games. You will find mini games such as auto racing, where you drive Sly's beefed up dirt truck and there's other like sniping, submarine shooting and many others. The game's graphics are impressive as it looks much like a modern animated cartoon, and a good one at that. Animation flows seamingly and gives the illusion of a fantasy cartoon world. Enivorments and color schemes are also varied to keep from getting too repetetive. There is also voice acting dialogue through-out the entire game. All in all Sly Cooper is a great platforming game, that mixes platform action with stealth gameplay and yet manages to keep these two concepts quite enjoyable. Add to that endless mini-games and amusing dialogue. It's a game that can be enjoyed by both young children and adults alike.

perfect

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is perfect. I am not fond of the platform genre that this game belongs to but I have played my share of platform games and this game does platforming to the best quality platforming can be done. For those of you not in the know platforming is basically games where you jump on level and land on enemies. Like Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine. I played both those games but I say this game beats them all when it comes to the controls of platforming. Jumping from one rope to another never felt so good. Mario frustrated me when i kept on missing where i was jumping. I gave up on both marios like I gave up on Croc and all other platformers. This game I did not give up on, I just had to return it to blockbuster. Now for the bad parts. May be too kiddy for some, but never bothered me any. I actually expected sly to be more masculine but he turned out my childish. But, again, didn't bother me. Also the world is somewhat constraned. Ok, its very condtrand. You have a set path, you go that away or backwards. There are areas where u can roam around like mario 64 and then go to warps to your next mission. The missions are the ones that are the liniar straight forward follow the path mission. They all usually involve getting a golden key to trigger something in the mission area room that will advance the story like going into a boss fight or going into another mission area. Now, the boss fights. Theres a dancing boss fight, I love this boss fight. You have to follow the beats ala DDR but it is not anywhere near the level of difficulty as ddr. But one mistake and you got to start over again. Thats another thing about this game, you get hit one time ur dead. Its not a bad thing, trust me, most things are easy enough to dodge and if you cnat dodge it that means there must be some way to get around it. The game is short. Though I never finished it it said i was 60% done. ANd i maybe spent wat?7 hours? Maybe less. Idk. But if you like platforming youll love this game and since its cheap you should buy it. If u dont like platforming you should rent it and if it turns u on to the world of platforming(world of missing landing areas and falling to ur doom) then buy this game. I myself will not buy the game for it was good, and perfect. But im still not a hardcore platformer and im more of a pc gamer. Or an adventure rpg gamer.

A Brilliant Introduction to PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

OK, I'll come out and say it right now: I think raccoons are the coolest critters on the planet (in case my nickname didn't give me away). So when I heard about Sly Cooper, I perked up my ears. Then, when I read the glowing reviews I knew I had to have it. Long story short, I bought a PS2 simply for the privilege of playing this game.

And what a privilege it is! As many people have mentioned, it's almost like stepping into an action/adventure cartoon and living the part. From the opening credits and the music that accentuates the mood and delightful voice-acting (Some people have complained the voices are somewhat cheesy. If this were a serious, dramatic work I'd agree; for Saturday morning fare it's perfect.)

To be honest, I've always steered clear of games that use more than a joystick and single button. They have always been too confusing to be fun for me. Sly Cooper overcomes that by starting with a basic run-through. Using the joystick, you move around the Parisian rooftops. The first time the player needs to use a maneuver, such as climbing pipes or sneaking along narrow ledges, Bentley (your faithful turtle assistant) pops up and explains what buttons do the job. That way, you're eased into the game in a very intuitive manner. In fact, the only time I looked in the manual was to see how to move the camera angle, a feat which Bentley explains a little later. This is good, because it frees up the player to figure out how to proceed or where the last few clues to give you a new maneuver might be located.

A number of people have said this is good for ages 7-11, which I think is a bit unfair. While this may be a breeze for somebody who's devoured most of the games for PS2 out there, it's still a treat for the less-experienced gamers of any age.

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