The Getaway: Black Monday
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| Developer(s) |
SCE London Studio
Additional work by:
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| Publisher(s) | |
| Distributor(s) | Team Soho |
| Director(s) | Naresh Hirani |
| Producer(s) | Peter Edward |
| Designer(s) | Chun Wah Kong |
| Artist(s) | Sam Coates Ravinder Singh |
| Writer(s) | Chun Wah Kong Alex Carlyle Dominic Robilliard |
| Composer(s) | Jonathan Williams |
| Series | The Getaway |
| Engine | Kinetica |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, Open World |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 57/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 3/10 |
| EGM | 6/10 |
| Eurogamer | 5/10 |
| Famitsu | 30/40 |
| Game Informer | 7/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | D |
| GameSpot | 6.4/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
| GameZone | 6.7/10 |
| IGN | 6.5/10 |
| OPM (US) | |
| Detroit Free Press | |
| The Sydney Morning Herald | |
The Getaway: Black Monday is an action-adventure open world video game developed by SCE London Studio and Team Soho exclusively for the PlayStation 2. It is a sequel to 2002's The Getaway. The Getaway: Black Monday focuses entirely on a new cast of characters, set again in London.
The game features about 130 playable vehicles, including those licensed from Rover, Brabus, and Vauxhall Motors.
The game begins with a flashback sequence where Sergeant Ben Mitchell is chasing down an armed teenage robber. Mitch orders him to the floor and the teen stops running, instead aiming for Mitch. Mitch fires, however the teen chooses then to try to turn around and escape, making it seem like Mitch shot him in the back. One year later, Mitch is on his first day back on the team. The team heads towards an East London housing estate where they believe the Collin's Crew is storing drugs in a flat.
The team breaks into the flat, but finds it empty (With only two Collins members), but PC Harvey and another SO19 officer find a door that leads to the flat next door, and find tons of drugs. They soon chase them down in the apartment complex and PC Harvey is injured in the leg. Mitch single-handedly hunts down the remaining suspects who take an old woman hostage in the roof. Back at the station, Mitch is taunted about the teenager incident and Mitch almost loses his temper when Inspector Munroe informs them of a shooting at a boxing club in Shoreditch. After arriving at the scene, Mitch chases Jimmer Collins who manages to escape.
Munroe suspects a Latvian Gang is responsible and assigns Mitch and Stoppard to join a unit of SO19 who are preparing to raid a scrapyard in Lambeth to detain the suspect, Levi Stratov (Paul Kaye). Levi is immediately bailed out and leads Mitch to Jackie Philips. She informs them of a deal going down at Holborn tube station on platform 4 and Mitchell attempts to arrest the trader, but he escapes and is arrested afterwards. Jackie gives a phone call saying she knows the leader as the phone goes dead. When they arrive a man shoots Munroe and leaves him in Jackie's apartment that explodes, killing himself. Jackie left a note saying "Skobel" while the police know a gun trade is going down. Mitch beats the trader and extracts the info. It leads the team to a warehouse.
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