The end of an era. While Sly 3 ended up not being the last Sly Cooper game, it was the final one to be developed by Sucker Punch and as far as many fans are concerned, this is the "true" ending to the series. Once again you have the three main gang members to play as but you also have a good amount of new characters to play as as well, including some of Sly's old enemies! Once again there's a huge variety here gameplay wise and while I'm not really a fan of all the different segments, the ones I like are really great. Boss fights once again are really great and you still have the option of choosing which missions you'd like to complete and in which order.

The story this time around is that after the events of the last game, the Cooper gang has been a bit broken up as Murray left the team after blaming himself for Bentley losing his ability to walk. On top of that, Sly met up with this guy who ran with his father in the old days and tells him about "The Cooper vault", a huge vault in which the Cooper family has been hiding all their findings in for thousands of years, however upon arriving at the vault they discover that a new villain by the name of "Dr. M" has taken over the island and has built an enormous fortress to keep people out and has also been trying to crack open the safe for years but of course always failing. As usual I don't wish to spoil the game but the main plotline is that you go through the game, recruiting new and old members for the gang in order to have a team that's able to break into the Cooper vault. I won't say much but I do have to say that the final chapter in the game included some great character development between the 3 main protagonists and while the game makes it rather obvious that the series is over after this, it still ends on a high note in my opinion but still leaves itself open enough for if they ever decided to do a sequel (which they did, more on that later).

Reviewed on Jan 07, 2021


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