Everything so far points to a terrible Thief 4.
- Leaked images show Garrett aiming with a bow in an over the shoulder perspective
- We don't have much to judge, but art direction seem to be rather boring and uninspired. Generic medieval town #3482747, and there's also the possibility that they're repeating DX3's visual gimmick on this one, having a predominant color everywhere (here it will be purple though)
- Some new Eidos Montreal employee was working on the multiplayer aspect of an unreleased game. This is just speculation, but yeah, it might be Thief.
- Brosius and the other sound designers of LGS are out, now we have Paul Weir working on it. He may even be good, but they're working on some random generative music software that I really believe it will be shit. Can't you feel the Oblivion vibes? A guard approaches from 30 meters away and the music will change to a more dangerous tone, completely ruining the game.
As I said, it's all speculation and maybe the game will turn out good or even great for some Thief fans, but I doubt I'll be one of those, since exploration is my favorite aspect in any game and played a big role on my love for the Thief series. Now we're in 2011 and exploration in mainstream games is considered a tedious, old feature that no one have time to spend on