Thief II: The Metal Age
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Thief II: The Metal Age is an adventure developed by Looking Glass Studios, released 21 March 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 3 cheat codes for it.
What Thief II: The Metal Age is
Thief II: The Metal Age is an adventure game developed by Looking Glass Studios and released in 2000. It was published by Acer TWP. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Dark Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins as Garrett continues his life as a thief. However, he is betrayed by his fence and ambushed after an early mission, and he determines that Truart, the local sheriff, is hunting him. Keepers take Garrett to hear a prophecy about the "Metal Age", which he ignores. As Garrett leaves, one of the Keepers informs him that Truart had been hired to kill him, and he gives Garrett a letter that directs him to eavesdrop on a Mechanist meeting. There, Garrett overhears Truart and Father Karras discussing the conversion of street people into mindless "Servants", who wear masks that emit a red vapor capable of reducing themselves and nearby humans to rust. Truart promises to provide…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Thief II: The Metal Age holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 160 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 32.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 50 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended) and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Thief II: The Metal Age launched on 21 March 2000, within three weeks of Soldier of Fortune, MDK2, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death and Rollcage Stage II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Soldier of Fortune, MDK2, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death, Rollcage Stage II.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 3 cheat entries for Thief II: The Metal Age — 3 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
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Every code labelled
Thief II: The Metal Age cheat codes
Enable cheats
Added to user.cfg in the game folder, this unlocks the debug keys.
Open user.cfg with a text editor, add the line, save with the game closed.
Skip to the next mission
Completes the current mission once cheats are enabled.
Enable cheats in user.cfg first.
Toggle invisibility
Guards stop seeing you once cheats are enabled.
Enable cheats in user.cfg first.
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