Review: Getaway

By Stephen Knox

Getaway is a classic cops & robbers type game. This little gem of a game was submitted to Atari's APX (basically amateur submittals) and Atari decided to release it. The concept is simple; you have a car that you use to find valuables throughout the city from which you need to return them to your home base. You have a few things going against you; 3 cop cars that hunt you down and Gas. There is an additional bonus in the form of an Ambulance that you can catch. The sound effects are well done in that a cop car far away emits a lower noise level than one hot on your tail! While on your home base cops cant hurt you but the longer you stay there the more they circle your house. Gas becomes more of a problem in later levels since you wait to sit at the pump and wait for the car to fill up. The city map is huge and has just about everything you'd want in a city (Hospital, Airport, Golf Course, etc…). The graphics are fairly well done and the enemy AI gets very tough in later levels. I found myself wanting to play this game over and over again, cruising through the city wasting time and trying to see all the different treasure types. This is a very well balanced game where one can spend lots of time just having fun!

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