For point-and-click fans, if there's anything they love as much as getting out of a place, it's getting into something they shouldn't be. Hence the success of Pastel Games' Sneak Thief series. In the third entry, Sneak Thief 3: Triple Trouble, the titular thief finds himself in some kind of underground lair with a number of code pads and a safe. Thieves are a lot like adventure gamers, I guess; they just can't resist these things. Will it turn out to be his downfall?
The mechanics are similar to other games of the same genre: point at stuff, click it to manipulate it in some way or pick it up, pick up things in your inventory and click to combine them with other inventory items or the scenery, point, click, point, point, click, click. As a part of a puzzle, you'll have to have keen eyes and note down a number series, but there's no math to be done or such. In fact, one particular puzzle takes advantage of the veteran player's assumption as to how a particular object is generally used. To say more would spoil it.
Play the entire Sneak Thief series:
The game features the same busily off-kilter Kamil Kochanski art and animation that Pastel Games fans have come to know and love, which particularly shines in the ending. A brisk fifteen minute-ish diversion, this game will send you off into the weekend whistling. I just want to see if and how Sneak Thief 4 handles that ending!
Walkthrough Guide
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Sneak Thief 3: Triple Trouble Walkthrough
Click on the video monitor to the right of the door and note the code at the bottom (28 3 80).
Click the pile of cans and take the rubber hose next to the green can.
Click the door to open it, and click again to go through.
Click on the red box on the right and pick up a long firehose and a key.
Click on the plant stand with cactus. Click on all the pots to knock them off, and then pick up the flower stand. Pick up the note that drops from one of the cactuses. Click on the cactus on the ground and pick up the red flower pot.
Click on the three doors to zoom in. You can only open one door at a time.
Click on the right hand door and go through it.
Click on the under desk area. Pick up the gas tank under the desk and the burner on top of the stool.
Click on the cabinet.
Use the key on the cabinet door. Pick up the short fire hose.
Click on the right side of the room. Pick up the projector.
Go back to the three doors, close the right hand door, and click on the left door and go through it.
Pick up the camera and the movie reels.
Click on the desk and pick up the Nobel Prize and the mirror.
Click on the pink code entry system on the back wall and enter in the code "28 3 80" (from the monitor) and take the security card.
Go back to the three doors, close the left door, and open the middle door and go through it.
Click on the pink code entry system on the wall and enter in the code from the small note (17 1 82) and take the security card.
Click on the desk and place the Nobel Prize in the slot to reveal two card readers. Enter the two security cards into the card readers. Take the blueprints.
Click the safe in the lower right of the desk.
Combine the gas tank with the rubber hose, and combine that with the burner to get a burner with gas.
Use the burner with gas on the safe to open it and get a glowing ball.
Go back to the three doors and through the left door. Then enter the door on the left, the one marked "Testing Room."
Follow the blueprints to build the machine:
Place the flower stand on the X.
Hang the mirror on the right.
Place the projector on the right.
Combine the camera with the movie reels and place on the left.
Combine the flower pot with the glowing ball and place on the top.
Use the long fire hose on the left and the short fire hose on the right.
Click on the machine to start it going.
You win! Sort of. :)
Posted by: joye
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March 18, 2011 7:37 PM