Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is a stealth platformer developed by Sanzaru Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Released in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, it is the fourth main entry…

80 5 February 2013

What Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is an adventure game developed by Sanzaru Games and released in 2013. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sly Cooper was enjoying his relationship with Inspector Carmelita Fox, a relationship they were able to begin by Sly feigning amnesia, when Bentley showed up. Bentley explained to Sly that the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus were disappearing and that Penelope had also suddenly vanished simultaneously. Bentley was looking to re-form the Cooper Gang so that they could stop whomever was altering history. Sly soon met up with Bentley and Murray at their old hideout, where Bentley introduced them to the Time Machine. With this device integrated into the Cooper Van, the gang would be able to travel back in time and fix the past. Their first stop was Feudal Japan, but because the Time Machine…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Sly Cooper series

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is the tenth of 13 entries we hold in the Sly Cooper series. The next entry was Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus in 2024. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Sly Collection at 84.

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How it was received

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 91 votes.

What it launched against

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time launched on 5 February 2013, within three weeks of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, DmC: Devil May Cry, Antichamber and Dead Space 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, DmC: Devil May Cry, Antichamber, Dead Space 3.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer