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This is an import review of the US edition of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, out today. It's due for release on 27th March in Europe. Sony may have stopped making PlayStation 2 hardware at the end of 2012, but if Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is anything to go by, then the spirit of PS2 software is alive and well. Pinwheeling through history with Sly and his other anthropomorphic animal buddies on the tail of an arch criminal is like taking yourself back in time to a more innocent and carefree world of gaming - and initially at least, it's a pleasant diversion from all the grit of the present day.
Sly's adventure takes him to ancient Japan, the Wild West, Medieval England and even further afield, and each hop along the timeline is an excuse to rendezvous with one of his ancestors, learn a new skill or two, exchange family-friendly barbs with pantomime villains, and of course to climb around collecting things. This is a game of double-jumps and crates full of coins, where figure-skating bosses are put down by rhythm action and patrolling owl guards waddle adorably in circles and only notice you when you walk directly into their path.
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