The Getaway: Black Monday Critic Reviews

The best feature of the game, by far, is the original script, story line, and depth the game goes into for the London Underworld and how easily it sweeps you into the whole genre.

Brutal, and urgently in your face, the game aims and scores often enough to recommend it highly.

Switch on those subtitles (the cockney accents make English sound like a bloody foreign language) or else you'll potentially miss out on some of the finest dialogue in a video game. Our favorite line: "She's had more pricks than a second-hand dartboard." Oi!

It's a snack, not a meal, but it's definitely a tasty one.

Fun as this game is to play, the best moments come when you just sit back and observe. Wonderfully acted, written, and directed motion-capture cut scenes play like the Snatch follow-up Guy Ritchie should have made, further evidence of the narrowing gap between video game and movie production values.

The characters are hit and miss (especially the cop) and some of the gameplay is rather plain and leaves much more to be desired. I would love to see this game on the next generation Sony system though.

It honestly has more of the feel that the original "Driver" gave on the Playstation, and that's a good thing. However, it isn't enough of an improvement to truly recommend this title as anything other than a rental or budget purchase.

Slightly improved but lacks the rugged spark of the original. Not a bad game but inoffensively reasonable to the point of disappering completely.

As it stands Black Monday just cannot compete with the truly impressive games released for the Playstation 2 this year.

The game is still firing blanks and driving on four flat tires.

It’s just that The Getaway: Black Monday is no better and no worse than the original, and for a sequel, that's a crippling issue.

It’s gritty, and unpolished in many areas (I actually had a few freezes that forced me to reset my PS2), but if you bite down and bare it, you’ll like it. That is, if you are a fan of movies like those Mr. Ritchie makes.

Black Monday has a strong story, but aspects like the timed driving missions could have easily been left out, and the game would have been stronger for it.

The story and setting are interesting and involving, the gameplay is solid enough, and the visuals and audio are polished. The only real thing the game is lacking is length and replayability.

Black Monday has a few glaring faults with control, over your character, targeting and a camera system that hurts the overall game play experience.

A map complete with objective markers is a big help, as are the GPS driven turn signal indicators, but the game is just as stiff, clumsy, and unworkable as it's ever been.

The concept of the game itself (and of the series) is a decent one that’s hampered by a lot of AI and gameplay issues. What’s more, the inclusion of stealth play that is weakly implemented compared to other titles further sheds light on the problems of Black Monday.

A game so utterly devoted to the same flawed concepts as its predecessor that it might as well be the same game with a new story.

Its fantastic story and surprisingly good sound are just not enough to make up for missing gameplay elements and a short campaign.

The locations feel more spacious than the original, too, and missions are varied so drug busts move into car chases with only the slightest hint of nausea...A limited but exciting experience.