Well having been away from London for a few years now, I just discovered the excellent virtual London to be found in the PS2 game called Getaway. I don’t think the game itself is fantastic, but the simulation of driving in London was a real home-sickness cure. Especially because in this virtual world you can ease stress by driving down the pavements of Oxford Street through the busy shoppers 
Cheers, Bippy
do you sit on the left & drive on the left side of the street?
Nope sit on the right and drive on the left side of the street, as god intended
Though in London there are so many one way streets that this doesn’t matter so much.
I gotta admit, it was a very intense game. (I just finished it). Lots of riding at high speeds against heavy traffic. Its sorta like GTAIII with a more realistic physics engine. Took me awhile to jack cars from the side with the driver.
Although I did not know that Londoners could regenerate from bullet wounds by leaning against a wall for a minute or two. Amazing thing!
I wonder if you get a bill for $8 each time you’re in London?
Anyway, does it have a text option? cause I just can’t play speech only option games. thanks
It does have a subtitles setting if you want it.
But the speech is some of the best.
As you write off another innocents car and drive off you might hear
“Hey, wait I need to get your details”
“Get off the F’ing road you idiot”
but my favourite is when you shoot a bad guy who just turns a corner to see you, and your charater says
“F’ing Muppet”
all with good London accents.
Cheers, Bippy ( who now has the Triads and the Soho mog after me )
What an amazing environment!
What an impressive physics model.
What a horrible, horrible game.
I’m hoping the whole story is good. So far, it’s just depressing.
As soon as I unlock the free roaming mode, I’ll probably never do anything else but roam. Question for the experienced: Do you have weapons in the free roam mode? Will Dempsey & Makepeace chase you, or do they ignore your crimes?
Nangleator at the opening credits (before you press start or X press…
<Triangle><Triangle><Triangle><left><square><Triangle><Triangle><Triangle><left><circle>
You do have weapons in free roam, and the old Bill will be chasing 
Thanks, guys. I won’t feel bad about cheating in this game, because I’d much rather just get to the good stuff (free roam.)
A magazine writer once said of computer games that they come in three varieties: A toy, a puzzle and a game.
A ball is a toy. You just play with it.
Give me a hoop to put it through, and it becomes a puzzle.
Give me an opponent who wants to put the ball in his own hoop and it’s a game.
I prefer a toy, in this case.
The driving is amazingly realistic, and it’s incredible that they’ve actually digitally mapped real places.
The press pack’s great as well: the instructions are in a London A-Z.
The game is a bit sucky, but then I’m really bad at games.