Blast from My Past: Great Escape Review, Empire Magazine
I’ve been tidying up piles of old magazines and the like at home and came across a pile of magazines I’d purchased when the game version of Great Escape came out in September 2003 (I was the lead designer on it). Here’s the summary from Wikipedia:
The Great Escape is an action-adventure stealth video game based on the 1963 movie of the same name. It was developed by UK-based developer Pivotal Games. The game was released on Xbox, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2.
I plan to scan them all in and so recycle the physical copies. Here’s a sample of what I found from the film magazine Empire Sept 03:
This was the first game I was the lead designer on and others did not but I learned a lot from the project. The game sold well on release; making no.2 in the UK chart (kept off the top spot by Eye Toy). I got to watch and read a lot of WW2 books/films in doing the research for the game, which was great. I remember sitting there in Pivotal’s AV room watching the classic Stalag 17 and thinking ‘I’m getting paid to do this!!!’. Indeed.
The trailers for the game are also online here:
A Great Becoming... 
Hello there, Tomas!
I recently figured out you are one of the developers involved in the The Great Escape game, (this game as a big fan of the movie I am) is one of my favorites games, I am looking to play it again in my computer as it’s going to be almost 10 years since I uploaded the gameplay on my channel and I was wondering (I am aware this is too much to ask for) if there’s a way to access the beta version of this game?
Thanks David. Glad you enjyoed the game. I was the designer on the game yes. Sorry that I don’t have a beta or anything for it. What is the channel btw?
My thanks to you, Tomas! No need to worry, I manage to read the documents you shared on scrib about the game, it is awesome to see part of what was behind it.
They are here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm30oxt0O2O1j0wx3J2eDRw9qid_X7PUS
I started to record them 10 years ago and I’m planning on recording again the gameplay (this time with a so much better than my potato laptop of those years with a better definition), I’m just waiting for the new copy of the game I bought to someone (which hopefully will be in a good shape as the seller mentioned), since I lost my previous one when moving.
Nice, thanks, I’ll check the videos out and best of luck for the new copy! Tomas