PS2 New Games

SLY 3
With the criminal story element not waning when it comes to game titles, at least the Sly Raccoon series has our master cat burglar coming up against serious baddies (not exactly stealing from the poor). But then, while older gamers have the capability to ignore these elements as a mere entertainment genre, is it the case with younger, more impressionable minds? Whether a cute action-packed cartoon with a thief as hero subtly tells some kids that stealing is OK, we’ll have to wait and see. Sure, games should be just that, games, and we shouldn’t get on our moral high horses – but when we see how many primary school kids act like hardened criminals, we can’t help but notice. But as I always hammer it in, it’s not the games that create psychos, but bad parents who don’t know where their kids are or what they’re doing. I know I thought I knew everything at 15 – thing is, today they think that at 12 and 13, believing they’re adults with the right to do adult things. That is simply not the case no matter how hard they try to argue the contrary. Your brain develops at the pace it does, and while many people have the pre-disposition to be geniuses, they still have no emotional or life experience to molds their personalities into rational, logical problem solvers within a broader society. Adults who run game development companies, write the scripts for kids shows, or include gangster-style music videos glorifying crime, violence and misogyny do it to appeal to themselves, or be hipper than the competition, not realizing they’re giving kids the impression that they are more than what they really are – kids who should be out playing and not beating each other up or wanting to emulate that which they see on TV - from wanting to be "pimps" (unaware of its true meaning), treating women like "ho’s", to glorifying money & material possessions, and simply taking it if they want it.
But, to get back to Sly Raccoon…Here our sneaky “hero” is up against Dr. M. This blighter has taken over Sly’s family island housing their enormous vault holding the wealth accumulated over generations (obviously not by legal means). Sly has to infiltrate and claim back his inheritance – leading to a lot of sneaking, fighting, tasks & puzzles to complete. While it’s an animated platform game, it’s not just for brats.

3 / C
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click below for the first two Sly Raccoons