The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!
As players gain experience from successful heists and robberies, they can invest in skills like "Agility" to access new traversal options, "Lockpicking" to improve their lockpick success rate, and "Stealth" to become more adept at avoiding detection. These skill trees allow players to tailor their playstyle and gradually become more capable master thieves.
In addition to the classic crowbar and binoculars, players can now access more advanced gadgets like laptops for hacking security systems, stethoscopes for silent lock picking, and even sleeping gas or tranquilizer guns to incapacitate unsuspecting victims. These new tools provide a wider range of options for infiltrating properties and securing loot.
The "Agility" skill allows players to perform higher jumps and access vents, providing alternative routes into buildings. Players can also make use of drones to scout out target locations and mark the positions of guards or security devices. These mobility improvements give players more flexibility in planning and executing their heists.
In addition to avoiding detection, players can now choose to incapacitate guards and tenants using weapons like batons, sleeping gas, or tranquilizer darts. This opens up new approaches to infiltration, allowing players to temporarily neutralize threats rather than relying solely on stealth. Furthermore, the game introduces the ability to pickpocket NPCs, further diversifying the tools at the player's disposal.
The game introduces dedicated "heist" missions that present players with more scripted, high-stakes scenarios. These heists take place in unique locations such as a resort, a warehouse, and a bank, each with their own security challenges and valuable loot to obtain. These mission-based heists provide a satisfying change of pace from the freeform exploration of the main neighborhoods.
When the player's criminal activities are inevitably discovered, the game challenges them to evade the responding police. Players must lose their pursuers through a combination of driving skill, hiding, and careful maneuvering. The intensity of these chases and the feeling of narrowly escaping capture adds a thrilling element to the gameplay loop.