Summary

While I played and somewhat enjoyed the first Getaway. The second offering was so poorly done that 1 hour is all I could take. How anyone, especially someone hoping to make a return on their investment could consider this game good or even completed for that matter is a complete mystery to me. The first game had a unique way of introducing you to the story and put you right into the action with at least a bit of story lead in. This new game puts you in and you don't have a clue what's going on. The first cut scene is about a gang of cops on their way to a raid while 2 of the cops are arguing like a couple adolescents about brass(or bross) something. Completely goofy. Next your dropped off in a housing development courtyard and all you can do is follow everybody else because you don't know what the hell is going on. You follow some bad guys who pop up out of nowhere in a room that you were just in and try and follow them around and shoot them in this housing complex that looks the same every time you turn a corner. That leads me to the gripe of this whole review. Nevermind the rest of the weird oddities of this game, the camera controls have to be the worst of ANY video game I've ever played! Even worse than the infamous Resident Evil games. The Getaway 2's sluggish camers turning while you are running around corners is totally ridiculous. While it attempts to stay behind you it continually zooms in and out as you turn. I mean, you'll turn a corner and as your waiting for the camera to catch up, you'll find a bad guy standing right next to you, waiting for you to see him! Get your AI report from that last sentence. Add to this a frame rate that can't be over 15 frames per second and you have the potential for an actual headache which took the Getaway all of about 30 minutes to provide me with. Playing it any longer I'm sure would have caused some sort of siezure. I haven't played my PS2 in quite some time and wasn't expecting much before I popped in The Getaway2, but I wasn't prepared for the disaster that The Getaway 2 is. This game would be better off being named The Stayaway!

Sound

Try following orders or directions from people who cannot speak ENGLISH, (believe it or no) through a distorted radio speaker without the benefit of any on screen radar and you'll have some idea. While the first Getaway ahd an excess of foul language, it at least seemed to fit the story line. This idiotic version spews the F word just for the sake of ....well, the F of it.

Gameplay

Good luck. there's not even a tutorial for this game to set you up for the bizzare control scheme. Honestly, stay away from this title at any price.

Summary

The Getaway: Black Monday is a sequel to the 2002 game The Getaway. Like the original you play are both a cop and villain(s) driving around the streets of London… The exact same streets you drive about in the original no less. Can you see what I am getting at? You play a Sgt Ben Mitchell (cop), Eddie O'Connor (boxer/robber) and brifly as Sam Thompson (teen computer wizard). I feel like the games (only) selling point is the story mode, which is really good and well set out. Its one of them games were thing happen as you are playing as one character and then playing as the next character will reveal how say some one die, what someone say, ect. The game flaws are what keep this from being any good. Movement in/out of the car is sluggish and can be annoying, especially when it cost you your life and you start from the last checkpoint. Also there is over the top swearing, may to make the younger gamers feel as they are really playing a MANs game. Overall: LONDONERS WILL LOVE IT, THE REAL WORLD WILL NOT.

Sound

No car radios, annoying voices that sound like they have been taken straight from a British Soap Opera. Only really one or two of the voice actors/actresses did any justice to me buying it.

Gameplay

I’m not too sure what to say about the game play there are part of the story mode that are great and make you wanna play the game all night long but go on the Free Roaming and then you end up board and want to stop. They have added Taxi Driving Mode, Race Mode and Chase Mode to the extra features as well. The bad points are the you can’t see how much ammo you have, how much life you have left and you can only carry one weapon at a time. Game Play Description: It combines stealth, free driving and shooting. (Think Metal Gear meets Grand Theft Auto)