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The Great Escape | 
 enlarge | From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 15887
Platform: Xbox
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 29222
UPC: 710425292224
EAN: 0710425292224
ASIN: B00008J2US
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Disc has a few light marks that DO NOT affect play! First Class shipping!
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| 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 |
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 What is going on with these games? January 7, 2006
The Great Escape is how you are supposed to try to stay away from being a prisoner at a jail. That is what all games are, but this game has a bad way to doing this. The graphics are bad, the controls are bad, and the game is not even fun. I stopped playing after the first 5 minutes and wanted to return it. They people at EB Games said it would be $.75 because it would be considered a trade in, no wonder. Who would buy such a game that has a replay value of 0? I am sorry for the people who created this game because they did a terrible job of doing this game. DO NOT BUY!!!
what a shame June 28, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My friend bought this and I went over to play it I thought it would be fun but boy, was I terribley wrong. Where do I start, ok first the missions suck because almost half the game you hide behind boxes where your standing right next to the guard and your completly visible so that makes AI horrible. Next it might a little bit more better if they gave any clue where to go. besides those problems the crontrols are the worst. Example: xbox-"Press y to hit." Me-"Theres a sleeping guard I better hit him." Next thing you know your jumping and you wake him up and you fail and have to start all over.
Goods:
nothing
Bads:
everything
DON'T BUY THIS GAME!!!
 Okay, but then again bad March 14, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Some people will find the most of fun in this game. For me on the other hand, no. The graphics are quite impressive, but the controls are terrible. The levels are quite different, but the same thing. Find something, use it, keep it, get caught, run, die. It's hard, but I like a good challenge. Another bad thing about this game is that you can't get away punching a guard. If you puu punch one, all the other guards gang up on you and start shooting you. It's stupid. Then you use stealth. The stealth is good, but sometimes, very unrealistic. As an example, there's one part where to exit a part of a camp, you open a door that's right next to the guard. Then you crawl in front of him and he doesn't give any sign of paying attention. Either that guard is stupid, or the game wasn't planned correctly. I think it wasn't planned correctly. If you want a good stealth game, get Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. I own that and think it's great. But it is extremely different than The Great Escape. The movie is much, much better. Rent it, and if you like it, take a chance. I don't reccomend this game.
 Good, could've been better... December 8, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This game is ok... not the best I've played by far, but it only cost 20 bucks. It's a far cry better than "Prisoner of War". At least in this game you get to kill some Nazis.
I personally like the sneaking around scenes. The shoot out scenes are troublesome. You can't aim very well and in like most games, you have to shoot the enemy several times to kill them(how real). A frustrating part is sometimes you can get stuck between objects, like table and chair, and can't get loose(but you're going to break out of a prison camp, hmmm?).
There are some fun things to do, the little puzzles to solve are kind of fun, and you do get pretty good clues of what to do next. There aren't a 1000 hidden items to find. Everything is pretty cut and dry, meaning you probably won't need a players guide to get through. Some of the shoot out scenes are a little frustrating, until you figure out it's just easier to run like crazy and dodge bullets to get to your goal. One cool thing I like is sneaking up behind the enemy and choking them(It's so much fun, I do it sometimes even when I could just sneak around them).
As far as the graphics go, it doesn't look as good as other games I've played, but they're ok. If you're a fan of the WWII genre, you'll probable like this game for the price. You don't get to snipe enemies like say in Medal of Honor, but the levels aren't as long. You're not constanly running out of health hoping to find a med-kit. You do get to ride a train ride motorcycle, and drive a few vehicles. I think for the price it's a good game, I don't regret buying it, like I did with Prisoner of War. Oh, on the easy mode, you get 4 game saves per level, and less saves in the more difficult modes. I personally like unlimeted saves, but some are better than none.
If it had cost $50 I would have been a little angry, but at $20, that seems about right.
 Well done and a lot of variety October 7, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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