The Great Escape

Dec 12th, 2008 by cm1

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The movie-licensed game is a longtime, if somewhat dubious, tradition in this industry–every summer you see a raft of games that tie in to the latest box office-busting Hollywood films. Strangely enough, in addition to this summer’s expected crop of current-action-flick games, we’ve also received a game based on a 40-year-old action flick. The Great Escape is an action and stealth game based on the 1963 Steve McQueen film of the same name, and though it provides a large amount of varied gameplay for fans of the movie, none of its parts are developed enough to be wholly satisfying.

The plot of The Great Escape, the game, is closely tied to and actually expands upon the plot of The Great Escape, the movie. While the film focused on the escape of Allied POWs from Stalag Luft III, a high-security Nazi prison camp, that event doesn’t occur until several missions into the game. Prior to that, you’ll be playing missions that detail the back story of memorable figures from the film like Hilts (the McQueen character), MacDonald, and Sedgewick. These early missions fill you in on how the heroes of the movie came to be imprisoned at Stalag Luft III and provide a good introduction to their personalities. Of course, after the big breakout, you’ll play several more missions that chronicle these characters’ harried path through Europe to freedom. Each mission has a set playable character, and you’ll switch back and forth fairly often to catch up with the progress of each one.

The Great Escape’s gameplay is surprisingly varied, but it’s a stealth action game at its core. You control your character from the third-person perspective, and you’ve got the standard assortment of basic moves that you’d expect to facilitate sneaking past the ubiquitous Nazi guards. You can vary your walking speed or crouch to move around silently, and you’ve got a “stealth camera” that lets you look around corners, over boxes, and even through keyholes to see what the guards are up to. You can also punch enemies or choke them from behind, but doing so is pretty awkward and can often backfire, leading to your capture. When alerting a single guard means you have to start the mission over, you want to keep to the shadows as much as possible.

The Great Escape is merely an OK game that could have been a lot better. Perhaps if the developers had focused more on the stealth part of the game and less on the other aspects, we’d have a game that’s less varied but more fun to play. As it is, The Great Escape may be fun for die-hard fans of the film, but if you’re just looking for a good action game, or even a good World War II action game, you could do better.

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