History VideoGame / SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRAccoonus

* TheBackwardsR: Used in the title of ''The Cold Heart of Hate''. Or more properly, ''Tне СФLD НеДЯT Фf НДTε.'' (even though ε isn't a Russian chrecter, э is)

* TheBackwardsR: Used in the title of ''The Cold Heart of Hate''. Or more properly, ''Tне СФLD НеДЯT Фf НДTε.''

* TheBackwardsR: Used in the title of ''The Cold Heart of Hate''. Or more properly, ''The CФld HeaЯt Фf Hate.''

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The game has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9WZz9d-OlI Black Jack]]" as its Japanese theme song.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The game has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DDkMobXylE Black Jack]]" as its Japanese theme song.

Sly must recover his family's "Thievius Raccoonus," a book listing all the special thieving skills his family has collected over several centuries, which was stolen by a rival gang, the Fiendish Five, led by Clockwerk, a mechanical owl, the "manifestation of evil". Meanwhile, Sly and his gang must keep ahead of Interpol Inspector [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Carmelita Montoya Fox]], who promises to one day capture Sly and put him away for his crimes.

* DoingItForTheArt: In the China level, there are many blue fireworks that you can launch. Do they do anything? No, but they [[VisualEffectOfAwesome look so cool!]]

* DVDCommentary: Level commentary, actually, for those who finish the speed runs.

Sly must recover his family's "Thievius Raccoonus", a book listing all the special thieving skills his family has collected over several centuries, which was stolen by a rival gang, the Fiendish Five, led by Clockwerk, a mechanical owl, the "manifestation of evil". Meanwhile, Sly and his gang must keep ahead of Interpol Inspector [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Carmelita Montoya Fox]], who promises to one day capture Sly and put him away for his crimes.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The game has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DDkMobXylE "Black Jack"]] as its Japanese theme song.

* TheBackwardsR: Used in the title of ''The Cold Heart of Hate''. Or more properly, ''The CФld HeaЯt Фf Hate''.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Name of the level "Flaming Temple of Flame".
* DerelictGraveyard: The level "The Gunboat Graveyard", which is home to various junked vessels, including old and modern ships, submarines, and planes.

** It plays like a more traditional platformer, where you simply have to get to the end of the stage and [[GottaCatchThemAll collect as many bottles as you can]], compared to the later games where you have to complete jobs to set up a big heist (while still collecting bottles).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The game is much more linear than its sequels and you can't play as Bentley or Murray outside of a few mini-games. Not to mention the level designs, Sly requiring lives and being a OneHitPointWonder, and Carmelita being an out-right AntiVillain [[spoiler:for most of the game]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: This is the only game in the series, so far, that does not end with a [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet]] or [[DownerEnding Downer]] ending.

* InterfaceSpoiler: In the controls menu, the third option you can change is for the jet pack. This doesn't come into play until the final boss.

* MeaninglessLives

* MoralEventHorizon: While we only learn of the villain's main evil deeds in their stages introductory stages, we actually see the Panda King [[DoomedHometown destroy a mountain village]] because they wouldn't pay his protection racket... then, when you enter his compound, you hear an announcement from the Panda King telling his workers to ''murder any survivors'' in case they come to the compound looking for vengeance.
** To say nothing about [[BigBad Clockwerk]].

* OneHitPointWonder: Sly, as well as the mooks die after one hit. Sly can collect up to two extra in the form of silver and gold horseshoes by collecting 100 coins.
* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler: Ms Ruby is the only one besides Clockwerk to know precisely who is messing around in her base of operations.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: Clockwerk and Carmelita[[spoiler:, though the latter does soon pull an EnemyMine near the end of the game.]]

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The game has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UWfT9kHJg "Black Jack"]] as its Japanese theme song.

* AntiVillain: Carmelita Fox, who's a Type 4.

* OneHitPointWonder: Sly, as well as the mooks.

* BreathWeapon: Sir Raleigh's welder mooks use their equipment to breath fire at Sly's direction.

* DerelictGraveyard: The level "The Gunboat Graveyard", which is home of various junked vessels, including old and modern ships, submarines and planes.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The game is much more linear than its sequels and you can't play as Bentley or Murray outside of a few mini-games. Not to mention the level designs, Sly requiring lives, and Carmelita being an out-right AntiVillain [[spoiler: for most of the game]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: This is the only game in the series, so far, that does not end with a [[{{BittersweetEnding}} Bittersweet]] or [[{{DownerEnding}} Downer]] ending.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Carmelita pulls this off near the end of the game after serving as one of the main antagonists for most of it. Though it would not be until the fourth game that she finally allies with the gang]].

* MercyLead: Carmelita offers Sly a ten-second head start [[spoiler:at the end. Sly spends nine of those seconds standing there, and then kisses her on the tenth one - which distracts her enough that she doesn't see him handcuffing her to a railing.]]

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Towards the end of the game, [[spoiler: [[ContinuityNod and again in the fourth game,]]]] Sly finds Carmelita, trapped in the [[BigBad Big Bad's]] lair. Despite Bentley mentioning that it's an obvious trap, the plot will only progress when Sly tries to rescue her.

* FiringInTheAirALot: Muggshot's flashlight guards do this if they manage land a hit on you.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: This is the only game in the series, so far, that does not ending with a [[{{BittersweetEnding}} Bittersweet]] or [[{{DownerEnding}} Downer]] ending.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The game is much more linear than its sequels and you can't play as Bentley or Murray outside of a few mini-games.

The first game of the ''SlyCooper'' series, and the only one with [[spoiler: a happy ending]].