The Great Escape (video game)
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- This article is about the 1986 video game. For the 2003 game of the same name, see The Great Escape (2003 video game).
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| Developer(s) | Denton Designs |
| Publisher(s) | Ocean Software Ltd |
| Release date(s) | 1986 |
| Genre(s) | Action adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Platform(s) | Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS, ZX Spectrum |
| Media | Cassette, Floppy disk |
| Input | Keyboard, Kempston, Interface II, Cursor, Redefineable keys |
The Great Escape is a video game which shares a title and similar plot to the movie The Great Escape. It was programmed by Denton Designs, who went on to produce the similarly acclaimed Where Time Stood Still. It was published by Ocean in 1986.[1][2][3] for ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and DOS.
This game is an isometric-viewed arcade adventure, and even now is still considered a classic[citation needed], due to innovations such as your morale diminishing (represented by a decending flag on a pole) the more time you spent in solitary after each failed escape attempt, a 'default' mode whereby your character goes into autopilot and follows the routine of the camp when left alone for a period of time, or the morale level becoming irreversably low, and like the game M.O.V.I.E, a genuinely interactive isometric environment.
[edit] Scenario
The player controls an unnamed prisoner of war who has been interred in a P.O.W. camp somewhere in northern Germany in 1942. The camp itself is a small castle on a promontory surrounded on three sides by cliffs and the cold North Sea. The only "official" entry to the camp is by a narrow road through the gatehouse and anyone passing through this must be carrying the correct papers. Everywhere else the camp is surrounded by fences or walls with guard dogs used to patrol the perimimeter and guards in observation towers with searchlights posted to watch for any prisoners trying to escape. Beneath the camp there is also a maze of underground tunnels and drains although these are dangerous to enter without some kind of light.
[edit] External links
- The Great Escape (1986) at MobyGames
- The Great Escape at World of Spectrum
- The Great Escape at Lemon 64
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