Sly Cooper

Sly Cooper is a series of stealth action-adventure video games created by Sucker Punch Productions and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The series follows the adventures of Sly Cooper, an anthropomorphic raccoon and master thief, along with his two partners in crime, Bentley the turtle and Murray the hippopotamus, all of whom are pursued by Sly's love interest, Inspector Carmelita Fox. Sanzaru Games developed the fourth game and remastered the original PlayStation 2 trilogy for the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita in a compilation titled The Sly Collection.

Sly Cooper himself has become one of the most popular PlayStation video game characters, and has appeared in other Sony games such as crossover titles PlayStation Move Heroes (2011) and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012).

Common elements

Gameplay

The games are primarily in third person. The player controls Sly or one of his companions through a series of missions across several levels, relying primarily on stealth to avoid enemies and alarms while collecting treasure and other items. Sly is very agile, and is able to use many of the features of the architecture for stealth, indicated to the player by a blue glow, explained in-game as a visible manifestation of Sly's "thief senses." For example, Sly can perch on the top of sharp points, climb up pipes, sneak along a narrow ledge, walk across a tightrope, zipline down a rope, or use his cane to swing from hooks. Sly also uses his cane to defeat foes, although it makes a noise that may attract other foes. He prefers to use sneak attacks when possible because of his limited endurance. Due to his heritage, Sly has a number of special moves that he learns through the games that can also increase his stealth or speed, or allow him to eliminate foes silently.