Sly 2: Band of Thieves

Sly 2: Band of Thieves

The sequel to Sly Cooper presents itself in the same crime thriller style and borrows heavily from movies, novels and comics to create a beautiful, heavily animated game. The story takes place two years after Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. In the first game, Sly became a professional thief, but in Band of Thieves he is a professional thief - so he keeps all the moves from the first game. He also gets new moves and various items to help him in his dark craft. The biggest innovation is the new multi-character gameplay. Players can start a level as Sly and then, after completing a certain task, switch to Bentley or Murray.

Story

Two years after defeating Clockwerk, Sly Cooper breaks into the Natural History Museum in Cairo to steal and destroy the Clockwerk parts to finally end his threat to Sly's family, but discovers the parts are already gone. Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox and her new partner, Constable Neyla, confront Sly, but he escapes before Carmelita and Neyla can arrest him. Before he can escape, Sly overhears Neyla claim that the evidence suggests that the Klaww gang stole the parts for their own use. The Cooper gang heads to Paris, where the first member of the Klaww gang, Dimitri, is using Clockwerk's tail feathers as printing plates to make counterfeit money. Sly and the gang fail the operation and Dimitri is arrested by Interpol. The gang then travels to India, where the second member of the Klaww Gang, Rajan, shows off Clockwerk's wings at a ball he hosts. Rajan is also the leader of a local crime syndicate that grows and sells "Spice," an illegal plant from the Indian jungle. Also present at the ball are the other members of the Klaww gang and several undercover Interpol agents, including Carmelita and Neyla. The gang steals the clockwork grand piano in the center of the ballroom, while a disguised Sly creates a distraction by dancing with Carmelita. After the Cooper gang escapes with the clockwork wings, Carmelita blows their cover and begins making arrests. The Klaww gang flees the scene and Rajan hides somewhere deep in the jungle. The gang tracks him down in a long-abandoned temple, where he uses half of the clockwork heart to super water his spice plants. The other half of the heart he wears on the end of a staff he always carries. The gang steals both halves of the heart and incapacitates Rajan, but Carmelita, Neyla and the Contessa arrive. Neyla accuses Carmelita of working with the Cooper gang the night the Clockwerk wings were stolen. She betrays the Cooper gang and places Sly, Murray and Carmelita under arrest.