Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves - Gameplay

Gameplay

New variations in the game include additional playable characters besides those of Sly, Murray and Bentley. Firstly, Inspector Carmelita Fox is a playable character in some of the minigames and also a few times in the game. Secondly, some brand new characters have been introduced, including a shaman named The Guru and a mouse named Penelope. Finally, previously mentioned characters such as Dimitri from Sly 2: Band of Thieves and the Panda King from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus are playable as well. Also Bentley and Murray can pick-pocket in this game.

The game also contains 3-D sections. 3-D glasses have been distributed with each copy of the game, and are used in certain parts of the game. However, 3-D is optional in these sections, allowing the player to view the levels in standard 2-D instead. Some levels are playable in 3-D from the beginning, while other levels require the 3-D feature to be unlocked, another feature being objects in the levels are only visible when being played in 3-D. The 3-D effect is focused upon certain objects in the background rather than the characters themselves, minimizing the necessary blue/red separation and making it easier to watch someone playing in 3-D without a set of 3-D glasses.

Also, to increase replay value, an offline multiplayer mode is included, along with challenges and extra movies unlocked with specific game completion percentages. The multiplayer games are: "Cops and Robbers," "Bi-Plane Duel," "Hackathon," and "Galleon Duel." Challenges are missions that are set with specific standards, along with a Treasure Hunt mission for each world attained at the end of the game. Murray and Bentley can now pickpocket. Murray hoists stunned or unsuspecting guards above his head and shakes them down for coins and loot. The coins must be picked up off the ground after the guard is shaken. Bentley uses a fishing rod like magnet to reel in coins and loot. When the magnet attaches Bentley moves away from the guard to reel in the goods.

Loot no longer needs to be sold back at the safe house. The amount an item is worth is added immediately to the coin count. Special treasure is absent from the over world. Sly 3 also features new gameplay elements and skills, such as safe-cracking, searching for clues and objects in paintings, aerial combat, disguises, pirate ship battles, and conversations. One feature that received negative feedback from the players is that you can no longer search for clue bottles to open up a special safe somewhere inside the different worlds, which was a popular part of the first two games and added extra replay value to the game.