www.thief3.com/main.html

They've started listing the equipment available.

Climbing gloves! Woooot!

Yes, but the rope arrows are gone. =/

I'm just hoping it doesn't suck like Deus Ex 2 did.

At least they got Steven Russel to come back and do the voice of Garrett, and he still has his eye.

I will mourn the loss of the rope arrows, cause those were fun.

While I will hold final judgement until I have played the game, it would seem that Thief has not gone in an undesirable direction. The artwork and designs appear quite similar to the previous style.