THE LONG GOODBYE

THE GETAWAY IS THAT RARE GAME ENHANCED BY ITS PRODUCT PLACEMENT

Look at the paper map of London folded into the front of The Getaway’s DVD box, and you’ll be struck by two things. First, just how incredibly faithful it is. And second, the uneven street density. Where most of the city is a condensed network of main roads that take you round the back of Buckhingham Palace and across Hyde Park, that changes as you cruise through Covent Garden into Soho – the game world becoming a close crosshatch of squares and side streets. It’s the natural focus of a team that lived and worked