Sly and the Family: Stone-Cold Killers

Everybody has a family, unless you're like, an orphan, or they all died in a freak Playstation Move accident. We here at IGN are sorry for your loss. But maybe this preview for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time will cheer you up. He has a big family, and they're all super cool.

Sony already showed off two of Sly's ancestor inspired costumes – the Arabian thief getup and samurai armor – at E3, but this time developer Sanzaru introduced two of Sly's famous relatives. The first, Rioichi Cooper, a deadly ninja warrior who also invented sushi. And yes, a ninja raccoon is just as cool looking as it sounds. Check him out:

Sly fans will remember Rioichi as the ancestor who taught Sly the spire jumping technique, one of the first moves he ever learns. But the ninja has more tricks up his sleeve. As you play him (yeah you get to play as Sly's family this time), you'll learn new moves like a long jump that allows you to leap between spires and cover normally impassable distances. 

While Rioichi sneaks through his restaurant to retrieve his sushi knives, Sly is busy trying to save his other famous relative, Sir Galleth Cooper. The famed medieval thief has been captured, and forced into a life of daredevil acrobatics. Galleth has also been forced into a humiliating getup, making him decidedly less badass than his ninja relative. 

Yikes.

Sly uses Galleth's sweet bow and arrow to create ropelines across the deadly fire-filled circus. Whether or not the bow can be used to attack bad guys remains to be seen (please be yes!). Aside from the new bow mechanic, much of the circus level plays like a very traditional Sly Cooper platforming level, though the verticality of the circus adds more scale than last generation's offerings. 

Every time Sanzaru shows off Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time the game looks completely different. The variety of gameplay and the unique feel fit with the Sly series' history of switching up the gameplay for each new iteration, which still keeping that core Sly Cooper experience. Thieves in Time doesn't come out until fall, but feel free to start getting psyched for it, because it's fun.