Developer : Sucker Punch
Release date : 2005
Synopsis :
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves is a platform stealth video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions for PlayStation 2 in 2005. It is the third game in the Sly Cooper franchise. Sly 3 has optional 3-D stages, and comes with a pair of 3-D glasses inside the manual. The game received generally positive reviews from the gaming press.
Set a year after the events of Band of Thieves, Sly Cooper, Bentley, Murray, and other unidentified characters attempt to open the Cooper Vault on Kaine Island in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, they are intercepted by Dr. M, the owner of the island. Murray and Bentley escape, but a monster grabs Sly. During this scene, Sly’s life flashes before his eyes, and the game flashes back.
Sly learned about the Cooper Vault from one of his father’s colleagues, Jim McSweeney. The vault contains the accumulated wealth of the Cooper Clan built up over the centuries. Sly went to find the vault, only to discover that M had built a fortress on the island in an attempt to get at the wealth hidden in the vault. Sly needed additional experts in order to get past Dr. M’s extensive security; he needed the Cooper Gang back in action.
First, Sly and Bentley seek Murray, who had left the team after taking responsibility over Bentley’s injuries at the end of the previous game, which would end up paralyzing him. They learn about a former opera singer and mob boss, Octavio, who operates in Venice, Italy, where Murray was. Sly finds Dimitri in a cell at the local police station. He agrees to find Murray if Sly helps him escape. Sly finds Murray while evading Carmelita Fox, who had become more hateful towards crimes since their last encounter. Murray had become a trainee for a peace-loving figure known as the Guru in order to become more peaceful. Murray refuses to rejoin Sly and Bentley until the canals are clean, the task the Guru gave to him. Sly and Bentley take down Octavio, who had been polluting the canals with tar as part of a scheme to threaten the city into liking opera again. After putting together some plans, they ruin Octavio’s comeback recital, but Octavio injures Bentley, making Murray so mad that he quits his training and battles Octavio and defeats him. Octavio is arrested, and Murray rejoins the team.
Murray misses the Guru, so the gang flies to Yuendumu in the Northern Territory of Australia, to find the Guru, but construction by miners has taken over the land. Sly finds the Guru, but the Guru won’t leave his cell until he has his mystical moon stone and staff. Sly recovers them, Bentley gives them back to the Guru, and the Guru breaks out. He agrees to join the team if Sly and the gang help remove the miners from his land. To do so, they have to destroy the Mask of Dark Earth, an evil demonic mask that makes its wearer a vicious giant and more powerful. While Carmelita goes after Sly, the Mask of Dark Earth gets stuck to her face, and she starts growing at an uncontrollable rate. Sly has to climb up to her face and remove it. After the Mask of Dark Earth is destroyed by Carmelita’s mercenaries, the Guru joins the Cooper Gang.
In need of a robotics combat expert beyond Bentley’s abilities, he meets a Dutch mouse named Penelope online. She agrees to join their team if they can take down her boss, the Black Baron, an expert flier who has his own flying competition, which he had never lost. The gang travels to Kinderdijk, Holland in the Netherlands, where they enter Sly in the flying competition. While there, they meet Dimitri, who agrees to tell them where to find the competition roster if Sly agrees return the favor. Muggshot, Sly’s former enemy in Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, is also flying in the competition, but Sly gets Carmelita to arrest him. After the gang sabotages other teams, Sly beats the Black Baron, who then battles Sly on the wing of a plane. Penelope is revealed to be the Black Baron in costume, and Sly wins the competition. Penelope tells the crew that her reason for being the Baron was because she was too young to enter flying competitions at her current age. Penelope joins the gang without hesitation.
In need of an exceptional demolitions expert, the team recruits Sly’s former enemy, the Panda King much to Sly’s dismay. After discovering that he had forsaken his life of crime, they confront the Panda King and he agrees to join if they help him rescue his daughter, Jing King. General Tsao has kidnapped her and plans to force her to marry him. Murray locates and recovers the old team van, aided first by Penelope and then by the Panda King, who recognizes the bond Murray shares with the van is the same he shares with his daughter. General Tsao steals Bentley’s laptop and Sly is forced to confront and defeat him to get it back. After finally rescuing Jing King, Tsao summons a stone dragon which grabs Penelope. Sly defeats the dragon and saves Penelope before escaping with the gang while Carmelita arrests General Tsao and escorts him to jail. The Panda King joins the gang.
Later, Dimitri e-mails Sly to remind him the favor he owed him back in Holland, so Dimitri buys tickets for the whole gang for a cruise to Blood Bath Bay in the Caribbean Sea. After learning that his grandfather, Reme Lousteau, had his diving gear and treasure he had collected stolen by a pirate named Black Spot Pete, they attempt to get it back, but find that Captain LeFwee, another dangerous pirate known as the smartest man on the seven seas, had stolen the treasure map. After stealing a ship, they sail to find Reme Lousteau’s treasure and gear, and successfully recover it. However, Captain LeFwee ambushes them during the heist and kidnaps Penelope. They prepare an assault on Lefwee’s skull keep, which involves taming a giant squid called Crusher. Crusher and the Guru defeat Lefwee’s men while Bentley frees Penelope. Bentley is injured during the getaway, and Penelope duels Captain LeFwee on the mast of his ship and knocks him into the harbor, where he is eaten by sharks. Then, Dimitri joins the team as their frogman, and Bentley and Penelope become a couple.
The game then returns to the present day, where Sly is struggling to escape from the monster that grabbed him. Sly realizes that he has been cowardly towards Carmelita and regrets never acting on his affections. Carmelita arrives on the island with armed troops and battles Dr. M, intending to capture both Sly and Dr. M. She defeats the monster, but allows both Sly and Dr. M to escape. The gang works to retrieve Sly’s cane, which is the key to the vault, battling Dr. M multiple times in the process. During these events, Dr. M reveals that he used to be partners with Sly’s father, but felt he was treated unfairly and wants to steal the Cooper fortune.
After fighting security, they finally break into the vault, where Sly sees the history and wealth of his ancestors. Meanwhile, Dr. M breaks into the vault and battles Murray and Bentley first before following Sly. After a one-on-one battle with Dr. M, Sly emerges victorious. After the fight, Dr. M once again compares him to his father, but Sly insists that everyone is an individual, and that he is just himself. Carmelita arrives to arrest them both. However, Dr. M shoots a blast of energy towards her, and Sly jumps in front of her as to protect her. Carmelita defeats Dr. M and checks up on Sly. He appears to suffer from amnesia, which Carmelita exploits to pretend that Sly is her partner “Constable Cooper”. Together, they escape, and Dr. M is killed when the entire vault becomes unstable and collapses. The rest of the Cooper Gang finds Sly’s cane and calling card next to an alternate opening into the vault. When Sly never returns, the gang splits up, except for Bentley and Penelope, who continue their relationship.
Dimitri becomes a rich scuba diver; the Panda King returns to China and starts living two doors down from Jing King, while he screens all her future husbands (so far, she is still unmarried); Murray goes on to complete his training with the Guru and later becomes a professional race car driver with the team van; the Guru, after finishing training Murray, teaches his mystic art to a group of rock stars; and Penelope and Bentley have created a new vault to contain the Cooper wealth that is shielded by lasers, and built a time machine. In the end, Sly is seen holding hands with Carmelita on a balcony when Bentley spots them. Sly looks at Bentley and winks, implying he faked his amnesia to start a new life with Carmelita.
Source : Wikipedia
