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Thief 4 hero Garrett less "gothic", more "mainstream"

Eidos Montreal has redesigned Thief hero Garrett. He’s less “gothic” and more “mainstream”, or so we’re told. But the key-art of a pasty-faced, black-eyed Garrett looks plenty like a goth to me.”In the beginning, in the conception, we had carte blanche to completely restart a new design of Garrett,” explained game director Nicolas Cantin to GameInformer. “We wanted to keep the main DNA of who Garrett was. We didn’t want to change that much because it was kind of working already.”The original Thief games – the first released in 1998 – “have a slightly different flavour”, added narrative designer Steve Gallanger. “Time’s moved on.”Read more…