The Great Escape is an adventure developed by Pivotal Games, released 23 July 2003 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Great Escape is
The Great Escape is an adventure game developed by Pivotal Games and released in 2003. It was published by Gotham Games. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Great Escape is an action-adventure stealth video game based on the 1963 movie of the same name. It was developed by UK-based developer Pivotal Games. The game was released on Xbox, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2.
How it plays
Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Great Escape holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1GHz or faster processor and 1 GB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
The Great Escape launched on 23 July 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
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