Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
2002 platform video game / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (known as Sly Raccoon in the PAL region) is a 2002 action platform video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, and serves as the first installment in the Sly Cooper series. The game follows the titular Sly Cooper and his gang, Bentley the Turtle and Murray the Hippo, as they seek out criminals known as the Fiendish Five to recover the pages of the "Thievius Raccoonus", the book of the accumulation of all of Sly's ancestors' thieving moves.
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Developer(s) | Sucker Punch Productions |
Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
Producer(s) | Brian Fleming |
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Programmer(s) | Chris Zimmerman |
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Writer(s) | Nate Fox |
Composer(s) | Ashif Hakik |
Series | Sly Cooper |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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Genre(s) | Platform, action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus was praised for its technical achievements, particularly its use of a variation on cel-shading rendering, which is used to create a film noir feel while still rendered as a hand-drawn animated film, although was criticized for being too short. The game was followed by three sequels: Sly 2: Band of Thieves (2004), Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (2005), and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (2013). It was remastered alongside its initial two sequels and compiled as The Sly Collection for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.