Sly 2: Band of Thieves

Sly 2: Band of Thieves is a stealth-action platformer developed by Sucker Punch Productions and released for PlayStation 2 in 2004. Players control Sly Cooper and his gang as they attempt to dismantle the…

80 14 September 2004

Adventure Platform Action Comedy Stealth

Sly 2: Band of Thieves is an adventure developed by Sucker Punch Productions, released 14 September 2004 on PlayStation 2.

Verified 29 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Sly 2: Band of Thieves is

Sly 2: Band of Thieves is an adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and released in 2004. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2 only. It runs on Kinetica.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Two years after defeating Clockwerk, Sly Cooper breaks into the Museum of Natural History in Cairo to steal the Clockwerk parts and destroy them to end his threat against Sly's family for good, but discovers that the parts are already missing. Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox and her new partner, Constable Neyla, confront Sly, but he escapes before Carmelita and Neyla can arrest him. Before making his escape, Sly hears Neyla suggest that the evidence actually suggests that the Klaww Gang stole the parts for their own use. The Cooper Gang heads to Paris, where the first Klaww Gang member Dimitri is using Clockwerk tail feathers as printing plates to create counterfeit money. Sly and the gang…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sly Cooper series

Sly 2: Band of Thieves is the second of 13 entries we hold in the Sly Cooper series. It arrived 2 years after Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. The next entry was Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves in 2005. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Sly Collection at 84.

See all 13 Sly Cooper games in release order →

How it was received

Sly 2: Band of Thieves holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 155 votes.

What it launched against

Sly 2: Band of Thieves launched on 14 September 2004, within three weeks of Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

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