Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus

Release: September 23, 2002
​Developer: Sucker Punch Productions
Platform: PlayStation 2

Synopsis: The game that started it all.  Sucker Punch Productions got started in the world of video games with Rocket: Robot on Wheels for the Nintendo 64 where they proved their talent for game physics. This talent manifested in SPACKLE (Sucker Punch Animation and Character Kinematics Life Engine), and won them a contract with Sony.

Sly Cooper is the descendant of a long line of master thieves. Throughout generations of Coopers, the family documented their exploits in a book known as the Thievius Raccoonus. As a child, Sly's parents were murdered by The Fiendish Five, and the Thievius Raccoonus was stolen and split up amongst its members. Sly, and his lifelong friends from an orphanage, Bentley and Murray, set out to steal back the pages of the Cooper family book and destroy the Klaww Gang. 

Plot Summary

The game begins with Sly Cooper on a rooftop in Paris talking to Benley on his binocucom, and a small tutorial begins. After the tutorial, you have to steal a police file from Inspector carmelita Montoya Fox's INTERPOL office. Once you steal the file you are caught and introduced to Carmelita, whom Sly later falls in love with. After a quick escape, you see Sly's backstory. Sly comes from a long line of master thieves who wright everything in a book called the Thievius Raccoonus. When Sly was young, his parents were murdered by the Fiendish Five.

The Fiendish Five tore the pages from the Thievius Raccoonus and spread to different parts of the world. Sly ended up in the Happy Camper Orphanage, where he met his best friends Bentley and Murray, and formed the Cooper Gang. Bentley is the brains, Murray the brawn, and Sly is the thief. Once out of the orphanage, The Cooper Gang decided to steal back the pages of the Thievius Raccoonus so Sly could become a master thief . The first pages were in Sir Raleigh's fortress. Sir Raleigh was a frog born into riches and nobility, but soon became bored with it and joined the Fiendish Five. Once all the main missions were complete, Sly faces Raleigh and defeats him, earning back the first pages of the Thievius Racoonus.

​After leaving Sir Raleigh's ship, the Gang moves onto Muggshot's Turf in Mesa City. Mugshot is a bulldog that was the runt of the litter as a child. After he started working out to become a gangster, he joined the Fiendish Five. After completing the missions, Sly goes on to fight Mugshot and gets the next pages of the Thievius Raccoonus. After Mesa City, the gang goes to Haiti to gain back the next pages from Mz. Ruby the alligator. Mz. Ruby is a voodoo mystic that creates undead companions, and eventually joins the Fiendish Five. After completing the missions, especially the creepy chicken mission, Sly Cooper defeates Mz. Ruby and takes back the next pages of the Thievius Raccoonus.

After leaving Haiti, the gang moves on to the Kunlun Mountains in China to face the Panda King, who specializes in Flame Fu. After completing the china missions, Sly retakes the pages from the fallen Panda King. After the Panda King is defeated, Sly goes on to the leader of the Fiendish Five, Clockwerk. Clockwerk is a mechanical owl that lives on hate. Upon arrival, Sly finds Carmelita trapped and saves her. They then work together to destroy Clockwerk. After the battle, Sly Cooper fully restores his families book, and becomes a master thief!

Easter Eggs

Credits Bonus Level: The credits is an easter egg level in The Sly Collection (ONLY IN THE SLY COLLECTION) where as bentleys hacker avatar, you can destroy the credits. To find this bonus level, you have to enter Sly Cooper and the Thevius Raccoonus and make sure youve completed the game. While in the hideout, go into the movies section and highlight over "The Credits". Hold L1 and then press X. Alternate credits appear, but for the Sly Collection (but is not quite the same as the one in the Sly Collection menu). after a few seconds, the green Bentley Hacker Avatar will appear, and you can move around, shooting the credits. Try destroying every word to achieve the 100% goal at the end. To do this, First head
to the top of the screen as soon as the hacker appears, and destroy the first words "The Sly Collection" or "The Sly Trilogy" and shoot them. Then destroy the rest of the words before they reach the top of the screen, or they will be lost. After 3-4 miniutes nothing will appear for a while, then the final words "The End" will appear, shoot it and a percentage will appear as to how many words have been shot.

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