Official Strategy Guides

Cap on 8/2/2008 at 09:21

Opps. It's past my bedtime and I messed up. The T1 and Thief Gold backgrounds are the same with the hand/hammer. It's T2 that has the artwork. I watched some cutscenes off the CD just now and looks like the art is from the game after all. The guy I thought might have been Garrett turned out to be Sheriff Truart.:o

Beleg Cúthalion on 8/2/2008 at 14:34

I have got the two official walkthroughs for TDP and (http://www.amazon.de/EIDOS-GmbH-Dark-Project-L%C3%B6sungsbuch/dp/B0000503TD/ref=pd_sim_w?ie=UTF8&qid=1202481209&sr=8-2) TMA. Both are quite...erm...cute (e.g. the burricks are constantly called saurians) and feature a lot of artwork like high(er)-res movie scenes, montages or really new stuff (like the big picture of Garrett outside the/a clocktower which I posted here some time ago); plus, in the TMA guide there are some additional artworks which are however quite far away from the original style. There are also a short articles about LG, about thieves in the middle ages with a book recommended and a nice introduction about Subway to Sally.

gunsmoke on 11/2/2008 at 17:25

I don't know about Gold, but I just bought a sealed copy of The Dark Project, and it has a nice instruction booklet in the jewel case, along w/the aforementioned keyboard layout sheet. My jewel case copy of Gold just has a simple one sheet insert in the jewel case w/installation instructions. There is a .pdf manual on the disc.

Funny thing...TDP is one disc, and Gold is 2...:erm:

jtr7 on 11/2/2008 at 17:46

Well, Gold has extra missions, plus the level editor, plus desktop themes, so it deserves another disc.:)

Beleg Cúthalion on 12/2/2008 at 21:16

Quote Posted by gunsmoke

I thought it [TDS] had the best official strategy guide.

(http://www.amazon.de/Thief-Deadly-Shadows-Prima-Official/dp/0761541195/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1202851064&sr=8-7) This one? Never seen it before; is there anything important inside like secret artworks we all would like to see?

jtr7 on 12/2/2008 at 21:31

I don't remember seeing anything unique, but the images of, say, the crystals and character types are high resolution and large. I was most interested in the full-color 3-D shots of the mission maps. I'd like to be able to do what they did, there. Prima has an (http://www.primagames.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780761548058) online sample of a few pages.

(http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blueheronis9.png)

Inline Image:

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4189/blueheronis9.th.png

Okay, dammit....why does the thumbnail have correct levels, but the actual image doesn't? I'd fix it if it wasn't that important, but this has been a problem with image hosting sites for years.

Beleg Cúthalion on 12/2/2008 at 22:12

Thank you; this one is new to me:
(http://s5.directupload.net/file/d/1336/4qzmzlp2_jpg.htm)

Inline Image:

http://s5.directupload.net/images/080212/temp/4qzmzlp2.jpg

And the one below with Garrett with his hands on some metal thing shows at least more than the official desktop image. I'll think about it. By the way, still anyone interested in the clocktower image or the others?

Stingm on 13/2/2008 at 01:15

I have the official guides for Thief 2 and Deadly Shadows. Both are excellent as far as I am concerned.

I never knew about the desktop themes on the gold disc. I will have to check them out. Thanks for the tip!

Sting

Nitocris on 19/2/2008 at 19:46

Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion

(like the big picture of Garrett outside the/a clocktower which I posted here some time ago); plus, in the TMA guide there are some additional artworks which are however quite far away from the original style.

Would you kindly repost the picture of Garrett outside a clocktower? I've never seen that pic. And I'd love to see the artwork in the TMA guide, if you would consider scanning it. Pretty please? :p

Beleg Cúthalion on 19/2/2008 at 20:27

Look into the Thief 1/2 soundtrack thread for the first one. The others...well... I hav one of Viktoria right here, as a handsel:
(http://s2.directupload.net/file/d/1343/b54d697c_jpg.htm)

Inline Image:

http://s2.directupload.net/images/080219/temp/b54d697c.jpg

As I said, they're quite different and I have no idea who is responsible for them. I made her green some time ago, but it didn't get really better.