Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is a stealth-platformer developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2, the game follows Sly…
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is an adventure developed by Sucker Punch Productions, released 23 September 2002 on PlayStation 2.
What Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is an adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and released in 2002. 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
Sly Cooper comes from a long line of master thieves (the Cooper Clan) who only steal from other criminals, thus making them vigilantes. The Cooper family's heirloom, an ancient book by the name The Thievius Raccoonus, records all the secret moves and techniques from every member in the clan. On his 8th birthday, Sly was supposed to inherit the book and learn all of his family's ancient secrets which was supposed to help him become a master thief, however, a group of thugs by the name "The Fiendish Five" (led by Clockwerk, who is the arch-nemesis of the family clan) attack the Cooper household and kills Sly's parents and stole all of the pages from the Thievius Raccoonus. After that, the…
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 Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus is the first of 13 entries we hold in the Sly Cooper series. The next entry was Sly 2: Band of Thieves in 2004. Its critic score of 83 is 6 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Sly Collection at 84.
How it was received
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 180 votes.
What it launched against
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus launched on 23 September 2002, within three weeks of Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Cheats and codes
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