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There's no radar and there's no 'shadow' bar. Unfortunately, TGE commits the cardinal error of not letting players know how far guards can see, or hear. Which leads to one of the game's major flaws: the manic AI. This is supposedly possible in red alert too, but more often than not once we hit red there was no going back. In yellow alert, the game's characters can hide in the shadows and soon the guards will make like goldfish and forget all about them. Get spotted by an enemy and two things can happen one, your objective compass in the bottom left of the screen might turn yellow, showing that a guard is searching for you but won't shoot you - or two, it will turn red, showing that a guard is eager to gorge on your insides, or perhaps just open fire. While attempting to do this, you've got to watch for the patroling guards, searchlights, dogs and other such enemy alerts. For the most part, it focuses on simple A to B objectives, such as finding a uniform to infiltrate an office, where you must then get a grappling hook, after which you must switch off electricity, etc. The comparison with Snake's VR missions lies with TGE's core level design. But as we're about to explain, unpredictable AI means quirks like this can often lead to capture. And if the camera can't move, then you've got to take a step backwards in order to see again.

For a game that requires you to hide behind crates, corners and various other such objects, it has an annoying habit of getting stuck on said objects. The first thing we disliked about The Great Escape, however, was the control system.

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The X button is for actions and is context-sensitive, while pressing circle makes Mac crouch and holding L2 puts him into stealth mode. Using the standard left stick for movement / right stick for camera combo, it feels pretty comfortable right away. The first thing we liked about The Great Escape was the control system. Upon landing, Mac (he likes it when we call him that) gets captured by opposing forces and is taken to the game's first POW camp, and its first level. This basically introduces us to the game's first character, MacDonald - one of four - and serves little purpose other than to show why he abandoned his plane and parachuted into enemy territory. Instead of throwing players straight into a nicely crafted tutorial, it throws up a terrible three-minute opening level instead. The Great Escape gets off to a poor start. We know all this is fun if done properly. Guards with limited fields of vision patrol around alarms go off if you're seen hiding in shadows is a necessity, blah blah.

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So you already know the basic gameplay, because you've seen it in MGS and Splinter Cell, plus it's been dodgily implemented into countless other titles too.

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īy all accounts, the game's plot follows events of the movie closely and even supposedly expands on the original idea. Just for those who don't know, however, the film was about a bunch of guys escaping from a POW camp in World War II. So we're coming at this from a purely gaming point of view, which is as it should be anyway.

Stop Campingįirst off, it should be noted that while this game is obviously based on the old Steve McQueen movie of the same name, the reviewer still hasn't bothered his arse to watch it. So is The Great Escape worthy of such a comparison or, ahem, should it be locked up and the key thrown away? Don't bother skipping to the last section to find out, because our new 'Random Conclusion Generator' means the real verdict only appears if you read the whole way through. Nevertheless, its roots are undeniably linked to those of Kojima's masterpiece, because the closest thing we can compare it to - aside from Prisoner of War, of course - are Snake's VR missions. In all fairness to The Great Escape, it's certainly no clone of MGS. On the other hand, his success - like all success in this industry - spawned a hideous batch of apostles average game designers that would attempt to cash in on the new stealth revolution. On the one hand, he introduced us to the fabulous world of 'stealth espionage' and gave us one of the best games ever made, in Metal Gear Solid. And not just from Liquid's point of view either.