Snatch is one of my favourite films. I had watched it so many times over the course of a year that I nearly had all of the dialog memorized.
The Getaway
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 On 04/09/2013 at 12:47 PM by smartcelt See More From This User » |
Just wanted to say a few words about one of my favorite crime games,The Getaway[for PS2]. It was developed and released by Team Soho in 2002. At the time it was getting a lot of attention due to the detailed recreation of London they pulled off. It's amazing how massive the game world is. You play as two different characters. One is a Detective Constable named Frank Carter. The other is Mark Hammond,an ex bank robber who has recently been released from prison. He comes home to his wife and child to try to lead a straight life. Things go horribly wrong one morning when his family is attacked in the street outside their building. His wife is shot and killed. And his son,Alex,gets kidnapped. Mark is wrongly implicated in the crime and finds himself on the run again. The kidnappers are the Bethnal Green Mob,led by Charlie Jolson. He blackmails Mark into doing a series of criminal tasks for him in order to free his son.These tasks include inciting a turf war and attacking a police station to free a member of Jolson's gang from police custody.There are some amazing gun battles in the game. Gets pretty intense in that police station as well as at a large museum near the park. There is a lot of driving as well as shooting. Most of the vehicles are licensed ones,you drive Saab,Lexus,and Fiat cars and trucks.
Notice the blinking turn signal there? That's how you navigate the city. Takes a bit of getting used to. They were trying to eliminate a big HUD display to avoid distractions to the gamer. When you get hurt you start to limp and bleed through your clothes. You then duck behind cover to heal up a bit before continuing the fight. The voice acting is superb and helps with making it a cinematic experience all the way to the end.
It does get bloody and graphic at points. But nothing you wouldn"t see in a GTA title. Driving parts are a blast. It's fun just to wreck vehicles and watch them catch on fire. Gunplay is tricky because you aim down the gun,using natural gun sights to aim at targets. Once you have the hang of it it adds some accuracy to combat,though.
There was a very good sequel to the game. Should have been a third,but it got cancelled.
One of the inspirations for The Getaway is the film Snatch. It featured some of my favorite British actors in some cool roles. Jason Statham was fantastic. But it was Brad Pitt who I liked the most. His character is kind of a gypsy fellow[like the TV show about the Irish gypsies who marry really young]who has such a weird accent he's tough to understand. But he nailed it. Ends up being the funniest guy in the entire movie. I highly recommend seeing this if you like crime films with a sense of fun to them.
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