New Getaway info.

Long in development but massively anticipated, Sony Europe\'s flagship PlayStation 2 project is looking more ambitious by the day

17:06 Brand new details arose of PlayStation 2 gang-bang The Getaway today, although a release date for the massively ambitious project appears to be the subject of some confusion. ThisIsLondon.com posted a piece on the in-development crime title claiming European gamers will have to wait until next autumn to sample the delights of hardcore revenge in the London underground. Not so, Sony said today.
The game is currently slated for a May 2002 release, a company spokesperson told CVG today. The launch date of the game has been the subject of much speculation due to its heady mix of ultra-realistic graphics, exact modeling of London streets and an undeniably adult storyline mixing Grand Theft Auto style missions and a heavy dose of good old gangster violence.

According to the London site, the team, previously rumoured to contain as many as 100 staff, actually stands at 50. Following the lead Bizarre Creations, the pioneer of this sort of city rendering with Metropolis Street Racer and Project Gotham Racing, the Soho crew has taken more than 30,000 reference photos and 40 hours of video footage. Professional film scouts were employed by Sony to walk around London in huge raincoats smoking filterless cigarettes to find locations for the 18 interiors in the game. Expect to be visiting strip clubs, railway lock-ups and crack houses soon.

read this for the whole article: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/lifestyle/londonlife/top_review.html?in_review_id=467424&in_review_text_id=421053

It sounds like GTA3 in London.  I wonder if this will be another let down or if it can live up to the hype.  And it doesn\'t sound like it is for the younger audience (look at the bolded part).

All I can say is will finally see it in motion come E3

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Stripclubs?

I trust team Soho (anyone seen the series on tv?)
They can do it!

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What series is that?

Sounds really good. I\'ve been waiting awhile for this. But its got some stiff competition from GTA3.
It sure has a lot to live up too

You know what I like (beyond the whole sound of the game), is that when I read this article I thought the pics on the right were some of the 30000 "reference photos" they were talkin\' about.  They aren\'t.  They\'re in-game.  Heh heh, goodie.