The Getaway
The Getaway is a sandbox crime game set in London. It is inspired by British gangland films Get Carter and Snatch. Initially, the release of the game was to coincide with the launch of the PlayStation 2 in…
The Getaway is a racing developed by Team Soho, released 11 December 2002 on PlayStation 2.
What The Getaway is
The Getaway is a racing game developed by Team Soho and released in 2002. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation 2 only. It runs on Kinetica.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Getaway is an action-adventure video game developed by Team Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It was released on 11 December 2002. It is inspired by British gangster films such as Get Carter (1971) and Snatch (2000). The game was planned to be released alongside the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, but was delayed by over two years due to the difficulty of recreating large areas of London in high resolution.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Getaway holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 71% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Getaway launched on 11 December 2002, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Gothic II, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords and Dark Cloud 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Gothic II, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords, Dark Cloud 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Getaway yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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