The Getaway Turns 15: A Look Back With the Team Behind the P

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The Getaway Turns 15: A Look Back With the Team Behind the PS2 Hit

When is a movie more than a movie? That was the question posed back in 2002 when an intense, memorable live-action promo helped pioneering open-world crime saga The Getaway jostle its way onto PlayStation 2. Sure, the popularity of the British gangster movie had been reinvigorated by Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels but that kind of widescreen Cockney swagger was very new to the world of video games.

Whereas Hollywood-grade production values are taken for granted in AAA video game development today, that gruff two minute promo was a revelation, promising an all-action, open-world London, recreated on your TV screen thanks to the power of PS2.

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