Each mission has a set playable character, and you'll switch back and forth fairly often to catch up with the progress of each one. The Great Escape's gameplay is surprisingly varied, but it's a stealth action game at its core. You control your character from the third-person perspective, and you have a standard assortment of basic moves to facilitate sneaking past the ubiquitous Nazi guards.
You can vary your walking speed or crouch to move around silently, and you have a "stealth camera" that lets you look around corners, over boxes, and even through keyholes to see what the guards are up to.
You can also punch enemies or choke them from behind, but doing so is pretty awkward and can often backfire, leading to your capture. When alerting a single guard means you have to start the mission over, you want to keep to the shadows as much as possible. Though The Great Escape is a console-style action game, and it appears to have been developed primarily with consoles in mind, it plays perfectly fine on the PC in terms of control.
As you'd expect, it supports standard gamepads, and it even handles relatively well with a mouse and keyboard. However, the added precision of the mouse offers both an advantage and a disadvantage: Though you can aim more accurately in the combat portions than with an analog stick, you're not given as much auto-aim assistance as in the console versions, so you have to do more of the work yourself. Unfortunately, when compared with the best games in the stealth genre like the PC's reigning champ, Splinter Cell, the gameplay in The Great Escape doesn't hold up very well.
For one thing, it never seems like your sneaking has much of a point--the stealth missions mostly degenerate into glorified fetch quests. Sneaking from point A to point B, then back to point A, then to point C just to grab some trivial items and throw a couple of switches can be pretty uninteresting.
The game's stealth wouldn't be so bad if the guard AI were a little more realistic, but sometimes you'll end up getting caught for no discernible reason, while at other times you'll be able to sneak past a guard that has a direct line of sight to your position. To make matters worse, you're limited to three saves per level, which you'd expect would make the game more challenging.
It does, but at the cost of introducing a lot of repetition--when you can get caught at the drop of a hat, you'll be repeating large portions of the missions over and over until you've figured out exactly how to evade the guards' search patterns. Occasionally the gameplay and level design will come together and you'll encounter a sneaking segment that's pretty cool, but these bits are too few and too minor to rescue The Great Escape's stealth missions from the otherwise pervasive tedium.
Thankfully there are a few other types of gameplay in the game to break up the stealth action, though none of them are really valuable as more than diversions. The camp, farms and other arenas for your activities look as they should look. Character modeling, except for McQueen's Hilts, is generic. But the overall goal of creating a believable and immersive alternate world is met, from this reviewer's point of view.
Generally, audio is one of the strengths of The Great Escape - from the ambient environmental sounds to the fine voice acting. During one episode, you can hear a rippling stream, with the sound rising and fading depending on your precise location. Even moving in a stationary circle changed the level of noise. Bernstein's rousing theme from the film is reprized, along with melodies appropriate to the settings.
As mentioned, voice acting is convincingly done, including the McQueen remastered lines. The producer of The Great Escape describes his creation as a "stealth-action" game, one he hopes will bring suspense, adventure and excitement to the player. Indeed, there is a good deal of sneaking about, though not nearly as much as with Prisoner of War. But there are also opportunities to man a bomber machine gun, drive a truck and half-track, engage in sniping and, of course, ride the motorbike.
There are objectives to be achieved, but often there are multiple ways to proceed down those paths. It's fun, after all levels are unlocked, to return to a favorite episode and see if sneaking by or distracting a guard may work better than a choke kill. Oh, by the way, Tom, Dick and Harry are names of tunnels. The artificial intelligence in The Great Escape seems inconsistent, even faulty, at times. Some of this varies with easy to hard settings, and some may relate to the kind of guard encountered.
Yet, as in many games, you may find yourself standing next to a guard at night who doesn't notice you at all and a long way from another who suddenly and unexpectedly sounds an alarm! I guess this all adds to the tension, but the apparent inconsistency can sometimes be frustrating.
The Great Escape is an enjoyable, thrilling and suspenseful accompaniment to the classic film. Employing not only the skills of stealth, but also item-gathering, planning, and combat, the game captures and sustains your attention, involving you in a believable WWII experience. With scenes and a climax paralleling those of the film, I found the overall experience worthy of a solid Thumb Up.
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