Square Enix and Eidos Montreal, the studio behind Deus Ex: Human Revolution, are putting together a new game called Thief, which is a reboot of the original Looking Glass franchise. The studio and publisher have today released the first trailer in a new series of stylized videos that focus on the tapestry of Thief, its City, and the characters who live in it.
According to Square Enix, each trailer in the new series tells the story of The City from the perspective of a different character in the game's narrative describing what it's like to live in a broken, repressed City that is being ravaged by an evil despot named Baron Northcrest and the mysterious sickness that's befallen the city known as "The Gloom."
The first trailer focuses on Basso, a former boxman (safe-cracker) turned fence, who uses his vast connections to The City’s underworld to organize thieving jobs for Garrett. He owns an intelligent, but bad tempered magpie called Jenivere who delivers messages for him. Garrett might consider himself a loner, but Basso is the nearest thing he has to a friend – and whether he readily admits it or not; he rather likes the fellow.
Thief launches on February 25, 2014 in North America on Windows PC, PlayStation®3, PlayStation®4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
