With Sucker Punch now working on inFAMOUS: Second Son for the PS4, Sanzaru have ventured out and created the fourth game in the series, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. The result is an excellent little game that definitely skews toward entertaining a younger audience, but is ultimately held back from real greatness by a few notable problems.
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Posted 194 days ago by Jeff Peeters
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Posted 436 days ago by Jeff Peeters
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Posted 1258 days ago by Robert Emrich