Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal (2020)

Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal (2020) is interactive animated film, was directed by Jos Humphrey and co-directed by Kenny Park and Mike West. During her mission to steal from a V.I.L.E. building in Shanghai, Carmen receives devastating news: her friends Zack and Ivy have been kidnapped by V.I.L.E. The Faculty threatens to brainwash them unless Carmen steals items for them. With help from Player, Carmen learns of Zack and Ivy’s location in a moving van outside the building. However, her attempt to rescue them reveals it was all a trap; Zack and Ivy have already been brainwashed. In the face of Chief’s demands, the viewer must decide whether to succumb to V.I.L.E.’s orders or find another way to rescue their friends.

For the first task, Coach Brunt tells Carmen to steal a soldier from the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China. While Carmen is outside the dig site, she runs into Tigress, who has been sent to aid Carmen in the mission. They enter an underground tunnel and fall into a booby trap, which Carmen escapes and has the option of saving Tigress from as well. Carmen enters the chamber to steal a terracotta statue, which is picked up by The Cleaners in a helicopter just as two guards enter the chamber. If Carmen hitches a ride into the helicopter, the guards grab her feet after she has climbed up the statue and the combined weight causes the statue to fall and break, angering Coach Brunt and leading to Zack and Ivy’s brainwashing. If Carmen instead hides among the statues, she eludes the guards and escapes from the chamber.