**The Getaway**

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**Thw Getaway what's your impression from vids and pics**

  • Looks good or I've played it and it's brill..

    Votes: 5 83.3%
  • Nah there trying to copy GTA and failing badly..

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Don't care/My countries not getting it..

    Votes: 1 16.7%

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Are you :USA:, getting/got this game as the site indicates it's Europe only. Basically it's a gangster game set in London :uk: and it looks pretty good.

Check out the vids pics and info

I'm hiring it this weekend before I buy :2cents: as unlike GTA :cd: this game hasn't had predecessors so there's no quarantee of quality gameing.

Have any other UK/Europe got or played it yet, what did you think?

The car :car: numbers are limited by GTA standards and are some of vehicles you will see on Londons streets and there's the rare site of a :nissan: Skyline..though I have doubts he effect/realism will be of a :gt: standard?
 

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Got the demo. Getting the game in the new year. Its class. Handling is almost of a GT standard. No on-screen furniture whatsoever (heads-up display, ammo count etc).

You Yankees are getting it very soon. Get excited.
 
This game looks awsome

I got the demo and loads of other getaway goodies sent to me by SCEE nice people

If i don't win a copy i will most definatly buy one maybe in the new year
 
Of course it won't handle like GT3. It's not a sim-esque racing game. I did have it on pre-order, but after reading various bits and bobs, I too am playing safe and renting it for a week or so. I fear it could be the dissappointment of 2002. GTA May just have taken the crown, and they aren't going to give it up soon. The London accents will have a limited appeal if the game is as bad handling as I've read.

Hmm...and it promised so much!
 
Already bought my copy and I get it the day it comes out. I hope its better then GTA: VC
 
It's out but i will rent it first, because i did just buy GTA: VC.
 
A little tip: In Europe right now theres a lot of "Vice City Vs Getaway" battles. My advice is to ignore comparisons and appreciate them for what they are. Get them both. You'll feel all the better for it.

Remember UT vs Q3.
 
Hey Rossell, have you played it yet? If so, could you give us a mini-review?
 
Originally posted by DODGE the VIPER
Hey Rossell, have you played it yet? If so, could you give us a mini-review?

Sure. I'll start writing one up although you must remember it is the demo and my magazines review of the game noted some of the demos components is different to the game proper.
 
The Getaway

Now, I admit I have some morally jaded standards, in which I mean acceptance of rather gross themes – violence, crime etc but nothing prepared me for this.

The Getaway starts off with chatter between 2 hitmen and a getaway driver, discussing a rather shady woman standing outside a London flat. Already in a couple of seconds you’ve discovered the tone of the game just by hearing the conversation. In just a matter of seconds, a whole batch of cockney slang words have been used and this isn’t even the game proper.

Fast forward through the rather muted colour tones (a world away from GTA), and you’ll find the first taste of the violence that embraces the game as a whole. The Getaway follows two characters, a cop and a bank robber trying to go straight but this demo is a 2-part level showing off both the on-foot section and driving section. After Mark Hammond’s (the main character for the demo) wife is killed and child kidnapped by the aforementioned cockney gangsters, the anti-hero chases after them in an Alfa Romeo.

This is where I take control and am consequently left speechless. There is no on-screen furniture whatsoever (such as HUDs, health bars etc) which leaves me suspicious as to how the game will work. Thankfully, my fears vanish as the developers have left some great hints to complete the missions. Your cars indicator will blink to the needed direction, and hazard lights will activate telling you that you are at your destination.

Still, back to the game proper and as I nudge the accelerator I get another shock – the sense of speed. It seems that the developers have been paying attention to realism more then anything else, the cars seem unbelievably slow but bite you in the ass when you try a corner and you find your car powersliding around a corner. And here we encounter the first slight problem – the collision. Now I’m not complaining about it as I think its been done well in all aspects but feeling. There just isn’t any “Ooomph” when you crash your car. But still, it’ll be fine as you tear around 46 square kilometres of London in perfect detail.

After finally pinning down the assassins car to a warehouse by the London Docks, I get out the car and get myself really confused. For everybody out there whose cut their teeth on GTA, the control system on foot will come as quite a shock. Admittedly the erratic camera system will annoy a few and put many off buying the game. My advice is to learn it and try to work yourself around it or something as this shouldn’t put you off playing it. The targeting system is not as good either but with practise can be extremely effective.

My personal tip when entering the warehouse is to be stealthy, hide by the entrance and take out the 2 guards walking out, then kill the guard to the left and then for the red barrels by the last thug before picking up the AK47. If you take any hits and bloody your suit, go near a wall and rest, the blood stains will soon disappear and you’ll be back in action. Yes, this may be intrusive and unrealistic but at least it gives you a fighting chance.

Finally you enter the parting stages of the demo and you find the whole warehouse is a booby trap. Demo ends and jaw drops.

All in all, not what it should have been, but still lives up to the hype. Get it.
 
Thanks for that Rossell, but it's only the demo. From what I've read, the 'free-roam' section is only available after you finish most of the game, there are more time-limits [which I don't particularly like] and the idea of no map - indicator signals is suspicious. PC World are selling it for £29.90 in their promotion. I'm tempted, but if I see AutoMod. first, Getaway will go on the back burner. Not too fond of the cars appearing to be 'slow' as well.

Meh.
 
You have to remember with the sense of speed is when you go at 30MPH in real life, when your inside the car, it seems deftly slow. I guess that is what they're trying to simulate.

Restricting the free-roam mode I agree is a bit silly, but the time-limits will never be shown. This'll clam your nerves as you won't have to keep looking at the clock. I personally think this is a good idea.

And 30 quid? Have it and don't be strung up like a kippah.
 
It's sitting next to my PC right now. 30 mins, I'll leave work, and it's mine.

Oh, and it made me £29.90 poorer. Not bad.

Just need to find Auto Modellesta somewhere, and I'll be a happy bunny.
 
oh...
p.s. It's a bit good. Cut scenes are brilliant. "You fat barst@rd" etc. Great stuff. Cars, I think, handle poor. Daren't go round a corner full throttle. However, I've spied the car I own, albeit on a bottom-of-the-range version. Still, no harm in trying to recreate me undertaking around Holburn. :D

Oh, and thumbs up to the locations too. I know Holburn very well, and it's a damned good recreation.
 
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