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Play3-Live Previews The Getaway 3: Impressions Included

French site Play3-Live.com had the opportunity to move over to England for a special occasion following an invitation by SCEE London Studio.This morning we invite you to read their preview & impression's of the game.Here are some brief thoughts as follows:

-Immediately, the quality of the graphics in(The Getaway 3)is superb 'dazzling' The enviromets are superb, but it's mostly the effects of lights that leave us open-mouthed!

-The Cars (still under license) are superbly modeled, a bit lesser than those of Gran Turismo, but just about the level comparable to a Colin McRae DiRT Racing car model.

-A slight blur effect has been added to give an impression of greater speed which clearly fits well during driving!

-Car damage has been improved and we would often compared it (The Getaway 3 )to Codemasters Rally simulation.

-The Getaway 3 will have no online modes, because according to the development team, it has no place in a game of this sort.

-About 40 hours of gameplay in total, not counting side missions and special vehicles to locate in the various large cities or towns, as the scenario of The Getaway is taking place in London but also in Amsterdam.

-Other information include, the team expects to link up the 3 games story wise (The Getaway, The Getaway Black Monday and Gangs of London) since the adventure takes place a few years before the first Game.

-Over 3 years in development have been necessary for such graphics rendering.The game has been in development since late 2004 & beginning of 2005.

-The music will be more varied than before.The game will also be more mature than it's predecessors, and 18 + will be recommended.

-There will be (for each playable character) his small home where you can store weapons, cars, and bank notes in a small trunk. No planes or helicopters are playable, but boats yes! The game is taking place (around the end of the story) in the winter, snow! Also, if you are caught, it will be Game Over, and it will resume from the last checkpoint.

-Finally, your atrocities will be identified(taken into notice) and if you are too violent, you will see your face on posters or TV (WANTED).In other words, must refine your crimes and avoid leaving traces.

So much for the "essentials" information on the too discreet game(The Getaway 3), which should be available by December.we were impressed by the hands on presentation and suggest that this series of Sony may well be greater than GTA IV in terms of graphics rendering and technology, especially as the characters are supremely modeled with real time climate conditions change.

See you soon for images and videos. Many thanks to Sony for that nice presentation.

Please note:I left out impressions of the storyline which takes place just after the E3 2006 trailer.Follow link to read more on that

See you soon for images and videos. Many thanks to Sony for that nice introduction.

Read the article, which I take with a grain of salt myself,and advise everyone to follow suit since it's 1st of April , It's from a reliable and well respected site hence it's degree of authenticity.
Updates:
This article has been confirm fake (April Fools ).Apologies from play3-live Team
http://www.play3-live.com/news-ps3-poisson-d-avril-7464.html
kingboy - contributor
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slapsta72 - 637 days 10 hours ago
1 - hope not april fools joke
bout time we got info on this game

been far too long
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Cellypower - 637 days 10 hours ago
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No online modes What! If Sony no what I know online is very important nowadays.There still in development hopefully they will add it later.
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SRuN4 - 637 days 8 hours ago
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Why must a game have online these days? Did it hurt Bioshock? No.

I just laugh when I hear people say games like God of War, Uncharted, Bioshock, etc. should have online play just to have it.
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sonarus - 637 days 8 hours ago
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i don't think online should be there just to have it but if naught dog focused a reasonable amount of time into their online mode, i think they can make something pretty decent out of it.

Online mode effectively separates certain games from being rentals so it is really a question of sales, Its very rare to find a sp only game selling upwards of 2 million
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SRuN4 - 637 days 8 hours ago
2.3 - @2.2
So take away time and resources from making an excellent single player game to make an average single player game, with an average online game? Yeah sounds like a real winner in my eyes. How does a average game with both sp/mp become a better buy than a excellent single player game?
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stuntman_mike - 637 days 7 hours ago
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completley agree with sRuN4 no single player game should be under done for the sake off multiplayer. i still see multiplayer as an add on in most cases unless the game is geared towards multiplayer, but uncharted, the getaway and such games dont need it, multiplayer would add nothing to these types of games.
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sonarus - 637 days 6 hours ago
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look at sales. Bioshock, mass effect all great games but fell to lack of online. I personally don't even try online on a lot of games after i am done with SP. But there are ppl who make great online and great sp. I expect Getaway to come away with online especially now this has been confirmed as fake
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sonarus - 637 days 10 hours ago
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well doesn't sound too bad. Actually sounds pretty good. No online may be a mistake though after ppl see gta4 but since they aren't going to be in direct competition considering the time between both releases, maybe getaway may have a spot on my shelf
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fenderputty - 637 days 9 hours ago
3.1 - Funny that this game
launches at about the time that GTA4 DLC content will hit XBL. If eigjht Days (protector or whatever) is also released around then, it's rather apparent why Sony doesn't care about the extra GTA4 content. It looks like they're hoping new games will pull a larger number of users then the DLC will.
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Exhaust - 637 days 8 hours ago
3.2 - Nothing will distract hardcore GTA fans
Atleast not me. I'll be playing The Getaway but I'm not expecting it to be close to GTA IV. The previous The Getaway games were pretty graphics and horrible gameplay when compared to GTA.

People should just let The Getaway stand on its own and leave GTA IV out of it.

Mentioning GTA IV and hyping it as the GTA killer like they always have will mean disgrace for The Getaway. It can't match GTA IV features for feature. Graphics are great but don't trump everything.

While I agree online mode SHOULDN'T be seen as a requirement if you're comparing GTA IV to The Getaway thats just another feature it can't make up with better graphics.
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sonarus - 637 days 8 hours ago
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no one is comparing getaway with GTA4. Personally i havn't played any of the games i never fell for the hype. However maybe team soho has finally gotten their game together. I like pretty graphics just as much as the next guy but if the game isn't fun then that is just too bad. Considering GTA4 and The getaway are the same type of game, it will show what a standard hard drive and blu ray can do for an open world game. That is pretty much all i am waiting to see.
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Fishy Fingers - 637 days 10 hours ago
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This and 8 Days (or what ever its called now (Protector?)) are reasons why GTA IV's DLC is going to be wasted on me.

Cant wait, will be a welcome change to have a great game set in my old home town rather than the states.
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harry190 - 637 days 10 hours ago
5 - no online could be good
not every game needs online.
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sonarus - 637 days 9 hours ago
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Not every game needs online but sony needs to be showing their online powers more than msoft. If GTA4 and saints row can pull off online, so should getaway
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Tesla - 637 days 9 hours ago
5.2 - Agreed
Not every game should have forced online. There are plenty others with online. I prefer single player games, anyway.
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Fishy Fingers - 637 days 9 hours ago
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"If GTA4 and saints row can pull off online, so should getaway"

Why? I'm actually interested.
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RiseOfMonster - 637 days 9 hours ago
5.4 - Not too fimiliar with Getaway
but haven't they always been more story driven than GTA?

If the story is good and the single play experience is great; games don't need a tacked on multiplayer. I'd rather they've put all effort into single player.

Most recent example I can think of is Bioshock.
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kingboy - 637 days 9 hours ago
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Read the article, which I take with a grain of salt myself,and advise everyone to follow suit since it`s 1st of April , It`s from a reliable and well respected site hence it`s degree of authenticity.i`ll be pissed if proven fake
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DRUDOG - 637 days 9 hours ago
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Thanks for the additional translation, the actual site translation was practically unreadable! I think this info sounds accurate as it meshes with other odds & bits we've heard about this game. Also, not so certain that 1 April is April Fool's in France. Don't recall it being so when I lived in Italy so I'm not sure...

Edit: Did some research (not that anyone would really care) and it appears that France might actually be where April Fool's day started. Go figure...
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vloeistof - 637 days 9 hours ago
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40 hours of gameplay better.
omg amsterdam wonder if we will be able to go to de dam de jordaan.
vondelpark amsterdam arena

oftopic is not some frence site tomorrow going to have new mgs4 info and stuff ??
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BigKev45 - 637 days 9 hours ago
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I don't believe it, it's April 1st.
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meepmoopmeep - 637 days 9 hours ago
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i have faith in this game. not every game needs online and games shouldn't be scrutinized for lack of it.
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thor - 637 days 9 hours ago
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Yeah it's one thing to do an april fool's joke about colonising mars (google lol), but a joke that is just "oh we have new information on a highly anticipated game..... ha! we don't really! april fool!!" isn't really funny at all, especially since we know that this game IS still in development. Of course this could be a real preview in which case, it's looking good.
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thor - 637 days 9 hours ago
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Actually looking at the page, it was supposedly posted on 31st march...
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ChrisGTR1 - 637 days 9 hours ago
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no online mode?? bah .. this game blows in comparison to gta4
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Fishy Fingers - 637 days 9 hours ago
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Played either? No? Then stop making ridiculous unsubstantiated claims.
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supremacy - 637 days 9 hours ago
12 - well it is april 1st but....
well online would have been nice and could be one of those features that get added later ala tekken dark resurrection. plus since HOME is coming out and this game is made by sony i do expect some trophies and some deep home support as well, now come to think of it games like uncharted would have been even better have they had an online mode,

just think of ducking and shooting one another in one of those lust tropical uncharted maps, now that would be cool and if you run out of ammo just go up to one another and punch each others lights out.

just my opinion.
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DJ - 637 days 8 hours ago
13 - Thank god
I'm sick and tired of every game getting online multiplayer when some don't even need it. I still can't imagine playing Team Deathmatch on Final Fantasy, or CTF in God of War. You get the drift. Though leaderboards are cool, now that I've seen Devil May Cry 4 pull it off properly. Hopefully they've got an awesome combat system, and an easy way to do the dozens of actions necessary in covering up evidence.
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Antan - 637 days 8 hours ago
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GREAT!...................goodb ye.
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hardcorehippiez - 637 days 7 hours ago
16.1 - i agree
i love guy richies films so to me the getaway was better than gta games plus driving around roads i know was a big bonus.the narrative and script of the original getaway was and is still to this date one of the best in a computer game. hopefully this follows suit.
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CumQuats - 637 days 5 hours ago
16.2 - It's going to suck...
The Getaway 1 did have a great story but the on foot controls were absolutely TERRIBLE. I gave up on it after the 7th or 8th mission.
When I buy a game even if I think it's not that good I always at least complete the single player mode to see how it ends. The Getaway 1 was one of only a handful a games that I've ever played that not just frustrated me but downright disgusted me with how terrible the controls were.
Also, isn't the guy that came up with the story for The Getaway 1 not working for Sony anymore? I heard he's working on L.A. Noir for Rockstar. If they have the same people that were responsible for the controls for The Getaway 1 working on The Getaway 3 then it will definitly suck. Just look at Gangs Of London. Good premise but friggin unplayable. Sony needs to give this franchise to a better development team like Eidos did w/ Crystal Dynamics for the Tomb Raider franchise.
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stuntman_mike - 637 days 7 hours ago
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as its april 1st hope this aint a joke but.. as for the getaway ive played all previous and really enjoyed them they actually mapped out london exactley like it, you could travel all round the real locations. they had a free roaming bit in it and you needed a real a-z of london.
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Vino - 637 days 7 hours ago
19 - Free-roaming titles
I'm excited about playing GTA and the Getaway 3 seems to me developers are making more free roaming open-world sand box titles, Infamous, Crackdown, and no more heroes are just some names. Honestly games like GTA and the Getaway in my opinion don't need online play, I enjoy them because of the single player experience.
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Ri0tSquad - 637 days 5 hours ago
20 - Thank god its an April Fools joke
Graphically it sounded good but no online? Ha, knew it was an April fools joke.
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Blackcanary - 636 days 2 hours ago
21 - Online Isn't needed
I'm sorry but that keep saying that this game will be better if it has online is just silly the first and 2nd never had online and they were great games this game is meant to be a singel player game. Not an online game. It's a story driven game and thats what makes it great i can't wait to be able to walk around the west end like i'm on my way to charing cross station in this game its gonna be great.
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