The Great Escape

by 2K Games

Product Features

• You'll have to show true heroism as you fight for freedom, as a top escape artist sent behind enemy lines to liberate Allied troops
• Experience a wide range of playing styles in one game -- first-person shooting, stealth action, driving and more
• Each soldier has their own unique strength -- use them wisely, to help you and your buddies survive
• Use in-game distractions to divert guards, or use yourmagician skills to pick their pockets, impersonate German soldiers and more
• New Peek mechanics allow you to spy over and around obstacles and corners, even through keyholes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008KUA8
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 21, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,754 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

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?

Features:

• 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

The Great Escape puts you in the shoes of a mastermind as you try and save Allied soldiers from a P.O.W. camp, in this recreation of the hit movie! Authentic WWII weapons, equipment and vehicles are painstakingly recreated -- so are the voices and scenes, lifted directly from the film

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cinema history rewritten!, August 7, 2003

By 

A. W. Carter "Hollywoodaholic" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Escape (Video Game)

Admit it; if you've seen the classic movie, you were always kind of hoping Steve Mcqueen would really escape. Well here's your opportunity. I was 10 years old when the movie came out in 1965 and playing this game made me feel 10 years old again. Which really worked out perfect since I was taking turns alongside my army-game-loving six year-old (except for the times I wanted to grab the controls away and say, "Hey, it's MY turn again).
The graphics are not as good as Medal of Honor Frontine, but the variety and challenge of play is better and some levels are frustratingly hard (even set on Easy). Use your four saves throughout each level to save progress or you will scream in despair. It took us 12 days at an hour each day to beat the game. The shooter level (third to last) "Ambush" was my personal nemesis (and high mark when I finally beat it), but my son blew through the last two motorcycle driving escape levels in less than two attempts. Personally, my own Steve Mcqueen hasn't jumped the fence and escaped yet, but I will continue to have a blast trying. If only my kid will give me back the damn controller.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, they have made a video game out of this., September 14, 2004

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Movie Maniac "Classic Rocker and Movie Lover" (Sedro-Woolley,WA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Great Escape (Video Game)

The Great Escape is one of my favorite war movies. So, when I heard they were going to make a video game I was very excited. When I got the game for Christmas, 2003, I enjoyed playing it. The controls are very easy to learn. There are four characters in the game that you will be able to play as. They are Hilts, Hendly, McDonald, and Sedgewick. And of course the game enemies are Nazis.

This is the plot, it is just like the movie but more in depth. You are able to find out how 4 characters(there names are in the first paragraph)in the film started out and how they got to the prison camp in the film. The 1st mission is airplane combat. You are McDonald and are in a British bomber fighting the Nazis over Berlin, you are shot down and have to parachute, you are then captured by the Nazis and sent to the first prison camp. You then have to escape from that prison camp, when you escape you are caught again and are taken to a castle prison. Just as before, you have to escape from that prison. Now you have to fight your way down the mountain by stealing weapons and of course killing Germans. After you do this, the game switches you to a new character, Sedgewick.

Now that you are Sedgewick, you have to burn an important code book that was left in the plane that is crashed, but the "Jerries" are getting close to the crash site and will find the book if you don't get there fast. After you journey to the crash site and burn the code book, you change to the next character.

Now you are Hilts. You arrive at a prison camp and have to escape and go to a truck depot and steal a truck and drive to freedom.

After you do this you are McDonald and are at Stalag Luft III, the prison camp in the movie and you must complete a series of objectives. Then the next levels are with Hilts and Sedgewick and finally you escape from the prison camp.

After you escape, the character Hendly is finally introduced and you are able to play him and help him and Blythe(Blythe was his blind friend in the movie)escape, you also get to ride the motorcycle that Hilts rode in hte movie. But at the end of the game, all 4 characters escape. In the movie only Sedgewick escapes. That is just a little fun thing that makes you feel like you've really escaped. This game has pretty good graphics. If you liked the movie, play the game.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This game is easily as good as Medal of Honor Frontline, August 24, 2003

By 

Tim Cargill (Columbia, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Escape (Video Game)

I just rented this game, and have to say that it is simply awesome. Every bit as good as Medal of Honor Possibly even better. Each character has a diffrent skill. The stealth requirement makes it much harder than The Medal of Honor Series. The Graphics are great. And this game is a challenge even on the easy setting. I strongly recommend this game to anybody that enjoyed Medal of Honor, Syphon Filter, and Medal Gear. Yes in my humble opinion it is that good.

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