15 Most Headscratchingly Awful Video Game Redesigns
11. Thief
Square Enix, after publishing the massively successful Deus Ex: Human Revolution, looked back and attempted to reboot another one of their dormant franchises, the innovative Thief series. Sadly, the reboot proved to be anything but creative.
The original Thief: The Dark Age was the first 3D stealth game for PC, and amassed a legion of followers for it's innovations of light and shadow, audio carrying through walls as cues, and player exploration. It's regarded as one of the pioneers of the stealth genre alongside Metal Gear Solid.
It's reboot, simply titled Thief, plays like a pale imitation of it. Where the original games had an in depth backstory of different factions and cults with exploration abound, Thief mostly relegates all of this to background collectables, instead limiting the player to somewhat linear worlds and an overall crappy cinematic story.
Dishonored, a series inspired by the Thief franchise, plays and feels more like a Thief game than the actual Thief reboot did. Go figure.