I am biased, because the first two Thief games are my favorite games of all time, but this reboot is utterly dreadful. The gameplay is focused on being "cinematic" rather than giving the player freedom, resulting in boring level design that feels entirely on-rails. The lovable anti-hero from the predecessors is replaced by an edgelord with flat voice acting, and between the trite story and the spoon-feeding "did you know there's secret passages in this house we're guarding???" dialogue, the rest of the writing is not up to par either. The graphics, while good overall, have a drab art direction that loses the flair of the previous game in favor of a bland gray. If this game existed in a world without the previous Thief games and Dishonored, it might have been serviceable, but as it stands, this is an aggravatingly watered-down blemish on a once-great franchise.