Great Escape

by Take 2

Product Features

• Action game based on classic WWII prison escape movie
• Command four unique Allied officers
• 20 huge levels full of bad guys and cool gear
• Variety of talents required: stealth, combat, driving and more
• For one player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000ALSDV
• Item Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 22, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,121 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

You will command four unique soldiers, each with their own skills, strengths, and stories through their capture, escape, and vengeance in the heart of the evil Nazi empire. Use advanced espionage skills in stealth missions, a wide variety of weapons in combat sorties, and a huge array of authentic vehicles in your fight for freedom.

Superstar Steve McQueen is digitally resurrected for the fistfights, shootouts, and vehicular mayhem of this WWII classic. You are the new mastermind in this saga of indomitable spirit and daring heroism, can you pull off The Great Escape?

Command four allied officers, each with unique sagas, skills and strengths in twenty levels of military intrigue throughout occupied Europe!

Choose your destiny in a huge variety of vast and beautifully rendered levels, including a crowded prison camp, an ancient Teutonic castle, an active Luftwaffe airfield and much more!

Fight for your freedom with an arsenal of over 10 authentic WWII weapons and attacks, through intense battles against prison guards, Nazi soldiers and diabolical agents of the Gestapo.

Strike from the shadows in heart pounding stealth episodes, using your wits and unique skills to elude and ambush your foes.

Race to freedom as you commandeer jeeps, APCs, trucks, and motorcycles in high-speed chases against the armored might of the German army.

Featuring the voice, likeness, and classic swagger of Steve McQueen as Virgil "The Cooler King" Hilts!

Product Description

Features include:

•Action game based on classic WWII prison escape movie
•Command four unique Allied officers
•20 huge levels full of bad guys and cool gear
•Variety of talents required: stealth, combat, driving and more
•For one player

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well done and a lot of variety, October 6, 2003

By 

"dpallmann" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Escape (CD-ROM)

The Great Escape is a well-done video game. It's very much in the spirit of the movie, which fans like me appreciate very much. The graphics, sound effects, music, and game play are all very good. The only negative thing I have to say about the graphics is a minor comment that not all of the characters look quite like their movie namesakes. What I like most of all about The Great Escape is the variety. The levels are quite different from each other, set in a variety of locations ranging from a bomber aircraft in the sky to a castle on the ground, not to mention many different prison camps. You get to be different characters throughout the game with different abilities. The gameplay itself varies as well: sometimes you have to use your noodle to get out of sticky situations; sometimes you have to be stealthy; sometimes you have to be quick; and occasionally you just have to fight, whether with your fists, a weapon, or a vehicle. A few of the levels that seemed difficult at first eventually became solvable after thinking the situation through and some trial and error. This is one of my favorite X-Box titles.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great game before its time, June 22, 2006

By 

Christian Nielsen (ridge ny) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Great Escape (CD-ROM)

ok if you have seen the movie you know how exciting it can be this game is amazing this is the call of duty from a few years ago , i paid 1 cent for this game and i am so impressed , it has nice graphics lots of game play, diffrent episodes from the movie. sure the charachters dont look excatly like the ones in the movie but were dealing with a game thats afew years old. but dont let that stop you from buying this . this is a classic and much better the some of the games i have recently purchused in 2006 . christian j nielsen

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Game, May 6, 2007

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D. J. Bell "djb" (Wash, DC) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Great Escape (CD-ROM)

I ordered this Game on-line. It was not available in the local stores. I did not pay very much for the game and I don't think it should carry a high price tag. This game is essential like a Play Station Game: Lower level graphics and such. But however it was surprisingly quite good. I don't own a PS2. I gave it a 5 star rating for fun, since I thought it was entertaining. Not whole lot goes on in the game, really, but I do recommend it, for anyone interested in the theme, and I did thoughly enjoy it. Some hard-core game players may feel disappointed by the lack of detail and challenge.