Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus Critic Reviews

This is an entertaining romp with just enough variation, humor and story to hold your attention right to the end.

It's got some of the best visuals I've ever seen on the PS2.

The pacing and structure of the game means that the process of achieving goals and being rewarded is sufficiently frequent that you always feel like you're doing something new.

Exquisitely designed levels...Every moment seems fresh and new and deliberately designed to be fun.

Represents everything good about gaming. Hands down, the best platform game of 2002.

While it is not long, it just is too much damn fun to put down or not play again.

An unequivocal blast. The framerate chokes, I wish to God it was about twice as long (I unlocked everything in just over eight hours), but everything else about the game is quite literally perfect.

A game that borrows a page from the glory days of Crash Bandicoot and delivers a gameplay experience that sticks to its guns and keeps the action constant.

Despite the game’s short life span, it is still one of the most entertaining platform games for any system, past or present.

For the rest of us, for those who just love playing good games with a great sense of style and high production values, Sly Cooper is not to be missed.

As polished a platformer as you'll find this year...Its sterling production values accentuate its smooth, sublime gameplay. Heck, even the mini-games are polished.

Enough fun to want to play through multiple times, and would be perfect if only there was more of it.

Sly Cooper is the first video game to directly parody the "Metal Gear Solid" series, and it does it really, really well.

Sure, Sly is indebted to a certain Mario, but the adventure genre is far from spent, and Sly's guaranteed to steal a few gaming hours, if not an entire weekend.

The gameplay is addictive; there are tons of items in the environment to destroy, tricky enemies to sneak by, and some puzzles to figure out.

The worlds and characters the designers have created here will charm your boots off.

What Sly Cooper lacks in length, it makes up for in gameplay variation, character design, as well as level design.

It's got style. In fact, presentation-wise, you'll not find a better action game...anywhere.

The best platformer to come about in years, and you owe it to yourself to play it.

A great platformer, whose only flaw is that it is rather short in length. The visuals and animations on Sly are just jaw-dropping, and the levels are diverse and gorgeous to sneak around in.