The Getaway (PS2)

The Getaway (PS2)

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Game Information

• Platform:   PlayStation2
• BBFC Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 18. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 18 years of age or over.
• Media: Video Game
• Item Quantity: 1

Product details

• Release Date: 11 Dec 2002
• Features:
  • Drive through over 40 square kilometres of central London, realistically recreated
  • Perform stunts including 2-wheel alley races to handbrake turns
  • 20 real interior locations
  • Explore London as a tourist, black cab driver or minicab driver
  • 2 plot threads - play as victim and cop to get both sides of the story
  • Over 60 minutes of cut scenes
  • For 1 player

Product Description

You start the game in the rhythm and blues (shoes) of ex-cockney gangster Mark Hammond, who has to watch as his trouble and strife (wife) is killed and his dustbin lid (kid) kidnapped. As the game begins you tear off in hot pursuit along the impressively detailed fields of wheat(s) (streets) of London.

The driving is a notch more realistic than GTA's in terms of handling and the damage your jam jar (car) can take; this realism means The Getaway is not so immediately appealing as the GTA games, but it manages to be amusing enough since you're still allowed to run over people and half-inch (pinch) their cars.

Where the game is unquestionably better than GTA is in on-foot combat. This features much tighter controls, including two aiming modes and a wall-hugging option like that of Metal Gear Solid. No doubt Sony are also under the impression that the story is far superior to GTA's rather amorphous narrative, but it's certainly an acquired taste, featuring as it does enough non-subtle language, mockney accents and poor dialogue to make even Guy Ritchie blanch.

In terms of freedom of movement The Getaway is more restrictive than GTA--but what it loses in freedom it gains in tighter gameplay and, of course, the ability to drive on the right (i.e., left) side of the road without the Old Bill getting in a how's your father. --David Jenkins