Sly Cooper
Who is He? The cunning, devious, theivius raccoonus developed by Sucker Punch during their pre-Infamous PS2 era days, Sly comes from a long line of master thieves whose origins stretch back to the prehistoric era. Think Looney Tunes meets Assassin’s Creed. With the help of his childhood friends Bentley and Murray (along with later additions like the Panda King and Dimitri), the Cooper Gang travels the world pulling off grand heists and sometimes saves the world. You know, just thief things.
Best Game? Sly 2: Band of Thieves is where the series found itself, going from platformer to sandbox and letting players switch between the three members of the Cooper Gang. Each one has their own set of skills needed to pull off grand heists that put Ocean’s Eleven to shame.
Chances of Being Skylanders’d? Middling. The series returned with Thieves in Time in 2013 and ended with a cliffhanger of Sly stranded in early history Egypt. Since then, nothing has been said about the series returning, but Sucker Punch has always said they’d return to the series at some point in the future. The character roster would be tricky if they want to get extensive like Skylanders; all four games add up to a cast of a little over 40 characters, most of them major players in the series. Sucker Punch is currently hiring for a “3rd person action game”, but that could also be another Infamous title. If Sony wanted to get in on that market, Sly wouldn’t entirely be a bad place to start. In fact, that could only be rivaled by…
