if you want more vids like this, somehow ive reviewed enough video games based on classic films to warrant a playlist for it: ruclips.net/p/PL643B5filmfGv51OYGiJ6kpL25LSkIohN
Hey great video mate. I have one request which I wish you could implement into future videos. When covering a video game tie-in to a film, please would you give a spoiler warning when you go into detail on scenes from the film. Had to mute the video for a minute because I haven't yet seen the film.
A reason for 2000's Great Escape game, it was remake of Great Escape game for UK 's Sincler ZX Spectrum based on film. It was very very popular game inu UK, Portugal and France for Spectrum .
I love this channel being a walk down memory lane for covering all of those middle of the road games of the 2000s. Not the classics, not the flops, but the 6/10s (give or take). This was one I grew up with and one I really hoped to see covered on this channel, and I could not be happier.
Also speaking of squad shooters set during World War 2 I'd love to see you cover: Hidden and Dangerous! Especially the second game, made by the Mafia developers (using the same engine as well).
Ahh man I loved ps1 Italian job had so much fun with that game Warriors on ps2 caught that exact vibe of the movie and did well creating a storyline pre cyrus getting shot
There's one somewhat similar early 2000s game called "Prisoner of War" where you get carted into pow camps and your objective would usually be to get out of there, iirc. You might be interested in checking it out. It includes things you'd expect, like having to assemble at the roll call at designated times during the day etc. I remember it being more free-form and too much for my child brain, but still tense and fun.
Lol, I remember that game! I used to just run around and talk with the friendly German guards. "Vould you like to try some of my bratwurst? It is ze finest in all of Germany!"
My grandfather is the first person I ever played Ocarina of Time with. I was on the controller and he would just watch for an hour or two and try to solve the puzzles with me while I visited him during the summer when I was a kid. Years later when he came to visit we went to the rental store to browse. His mind was blown when we found this. Needless to say; it was just like old times with me on the controls and him watching a video game adaptation that was 40 years in the making 😂
Wow!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing your experience with us!!! I too love to watch people play video games!!! My older brother used to play them in front of me, because i was tol ypung to play them, so i didn't know how to play the much harder games with diffivulty slikes, i would get overwhelmed just rotating the PC game's camera!!! So having my older brother playing them in front of let me enjoy the story, gameplay and cutscenes without having to struggle playing the game and losing most of the time!!! Edit: just reread your comment and your Grand-Father was the one seeing you play, i always wondered how it feels like to see someone watch you play a video game, Yotubers who stream their games online must feel that way!!! Hey, maybe you should become a video game streamer!!! I don't really know, but, anyway, i kind of wish you all the best!!! Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤
Mini I have NO clue how you consistently cover games that feel like hidden memories that only a few of us have. Those random video game boxes you vaguely remember in your collection. Games that you feel you’re the only one that ever played it. It’s truly a gift! I’ll love hearing you cover games like this every single time
@@jordeneyermann They’re talking about the game, not the film. I doubt most people know there was a game adaptation (especially not 40 years after the film’s release).
It's always cool to see games that would otherwise be in the $5 at Walmart aim so high. Obviously they didn't deliver on most of what they aimed for, but it's executed well enough to see their vision. Great video, as always! I've slwly been building my collection of 6th gen games and it's always fun when you cover one I don't have, or in this case, have never heard of.
I played the hell out of this as a kid. Loved it, watched the movie because of the game and it’s now in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. The game was fun, but a lot were left out, I never really understood anything. Watching the movie made it a bit clearer
I actually love this video game. One of my childhood staples. Another one I recommend which is very immersive (I'm sure outdated now) is Prisoner of War - a WW2 POW game where you're trying to escape various prison camps through full scheduled days. It's super immersive and stressful when you're skipping out on role-call, breakfast, or recess to steal something from a guards quarters.
There's actually a game about being a WWII PoW from the same era called "Prisoner of War" that I hope you'll check out. I remember my older brother enjoying it a lot as it was so different from other games of that era.
This was from a weird era of gaming when they started adapting very old movies into video game form like The Godfather, Reservoir Dogs (not too old at that point), Scraface (how could I forget Scarface?), From Russia With Love, and several cancelled games of Taxi Driver and Dirty Harry.
I actually still want to play the taxi driver and dirty Harry games. Dirty Harry I imagined similar to LA noire, with better gunplay and driving, and taxi driver was a great opportunity to continue the story of the movie and we could have seen Travis decend into villainy.
There was also supposed to be a game based on The Good The Bad & The Ugly too, & a game based on Heat. Gearbox were supposed to be doing that. Not sure why it was cancelled, but obviously, they only signed on to do it to embezzle funding.
I think all the cool little 'social stealth' ideas in this game really show just how impressive Hitman 2 was the year before - outside of the modern Hitman games, most other games haven't met that high bar of level design mixed with clever use of AI and scripted sequences. I'm reminded of that mission in Black Ops: Cold War for the same sort of appeal.
God bless you for AA, A+ & shovelware coverage of the late 90s through 7th Gen. I am way too familiar with a lot of these games--despite having never played quite a lot of them. Keep on chugging Mr. Mme.
I remember this bad boy! Childhood memories right here. A classic clunky and janky game full of memories from a simpler and more innocent time in gaming. Love it
you know what is crazy......I remember being a kid when this game came out and thinking "who is going to buy this" and I was right. games like this bombed left and right and so many studios and publishers from that generation went bankrupt. In fact so many games back in the day failed and the publishers got into millions of dollars in debt and just kept going because the revenue was propped up by sports/licensed games but that kept them afloat for a time and at the end of the generation and starting with the new HD generation all went under. Acclaim, Midway, THQ, Eidos (who got bought out by SE)
thank you for having the name of the game you're showing gameplay of next to it on every single one! I know it must've been very annoying to do but please know it's welcomed, wish i saw more youtubers do this, it drives me nuts seeing some gameplay that makes me want to play that game but i cant find the game anywhere
He always judges these old games by modern standards. Like the bike level was actually really unique for 2003, there weren't many fps/action games with driving physics.
I love watching your channel. It takes me back to a time in video games I just barely touched but have always missed. The way you can break apart the convoluted good and bad of these convoluted-ass games is amazing. I never feel like I know exactly what you’re gonna say next- your perspective is so unique and thorough, I’m always pleasantly surprised.
For some reason you just unlocked some weird memories in my head... not from this game tho, but from Commandos Strike Force; that one had a "kinda similar" Spy char that needed to pick up disguises and stuff to go undetected, and idk, for some reason I found it similar to this one. Maybe it's the janky aspect? You should give it a try someday, it's a really odd FPS game in a series of RTS games, so it may be interesting
Blast from the past! I just barely have the inkling of a memory reading a preview for this game in a magazine when I was a little kid just getting into video games.
Thank you for mentioning the the train level! I was trying to complete that when I played it a couple of decades ago. It's such a perculiar game, and I hope you review another game similar to this called Prisoner of War
I remember being completely pumped for this game before release. The marketing plus my pre teen brain made it seem like a prison escape immersive sim. You couldn’t imagine the disappointment I felt once I actually got my hands on it.
I remember getting a free demo of this with a newspaper when I was about 8 or 9 years old - I was surprised that (I think) over half the game was in the demo and absolutely loved the game. Bought a copy a couple years back to finally try the full game out, but there were weird bugs like not being able to move the crate you talked about.
I always wanted to rent this game as a kid. I didn't know this was a movie tie-in, but the sheer idea of a game based on an escape sounded intriguing. Knowing that it runs off of the Conflict engine would have been even more enticing given that my friend owned that game and we played the hell out of it, even if it wasn't all that great.
unless it's been buried by the algorithm I'd love to see you cover the Conflict series Pivotal worked on too. The first one is available on Steam but it seems like the other 3 are abandonware, perhaps bordering on lost for the final game. They're basic squad based shooters that do hold up decently well.
Hey minimme, loved this vid as always. Your selection of pretty obscure but interesting games is always impressive. Can I suggest Prisoner of War, a very similar game set in a POW camp that came out in 2001? I played it as a kid and absolutely loved it - though I'm not sure how well it would hold up now. I was very excited for The Great Escape years later when it was announced, but I never got very far into it as I didn't think it was as good as Prisoner of War.
It’s so weird how many games you talk about or bring up, such as Conflict in this video, that I thought nobody knew outside of me. King Kong was the same way, it’s really weird man.
I had no idea this game was made by the same studio responsible for the Conflict games, I loved those so much. I remember always passing by TGE in the $5 used bin at Gamestop and thinking "The hell is this, some Medal of Honor/Wolfenstein ripoff?" This was the same mindset that forbade me from every picking up Fallout 3 or New Vegas for years, so thank god I fixed that lol.
11:10 The actual scene with the jump over the fence had been done outside of Rosenheim at the Chiemsee in Bavaria. Also most of the cuts of the following Germans on motor bikes had bben done also by Steve McQueen himself in the best tradition of Silent Movies were those cuts had been produched the same way Just the famous jump scene had been done in a stunt by a professional out of insurnce reasons The wire by the way was a rubber prop The camp by the way was a forest property in Grünwald, in the South of Munich and the shown train was a Privat trek between Munich and Tegernsee/Bad Tölz with a Museum´s train often used fdr filming and aveertisements shoots yes the actual bike chase in the game had bee as bad as the car race in MAFIA
So crazy experience with this game. At the end of the PS2 era ($1-5 game bins at every game store) I purchased this. In my young age, I had no idea there was a movie. I ended up buying the movie and thoroughly enjoyed both! Great nostalgia. Thanks for the video!
The Saboteur is similar in that it has a lot of rough edges, but has more fleshed out stealth with a disguise system similar to what TGE had planned, as well as a full open world.
Loved this game as a kid, and I still play it every now and then on an emulator. It’s got a nice atmosphere and the OST is extremely underrated. I do find it funny though that the most effective way to play the game during camp levels is to lure the guards inside the huts by opening the doors in their view, waiting for them to come in and investigate and then finally strangling them as they’re about to leave.
I loved this game. My uncle who was elderly came to stay with us as a kid. He loved the movie. And i showed him how to play the game on my original xbox, i basically had to fight with him over my own xbox when id come home from school because he played it so much. I wish he had lived long enough to see red dead redemption 2. He loved westerns.
I also find it funny during the train level that you have to jump through millions of hoops and murder dozens of guards just so you can get a key to unlock the back door of the train so you and Blythe can jump off it, even though there’s plenty of other spots on the train where you both easily could have jumped off from as well.
Love the mid to low tier games of yesteryear, usually was a cheaper game so you don't expect much which leads to more enjoyment when it surpasses those low hype levels. Thanks for the awesome videos!
you should play death to spies and its sequel in case you wanna see this type of game (3rd person stealth shooter set during ww2) done right it's basically just hitman but you play as a NKVD officer and it's legitimately really well done
0:59 okay I think we can ALL AGREE that Agent Under Fire was an EXCELLENT game for the Ps2 era. Graphics were great, controls were superb, and just the plot of the overall game was FIRE 🔥
So my takeaway halfway through was "oh, it wanted to be an immersive stealth sim a la Thief or Deus Ex when it grew up," then you mentioned the aborted salute mechanic and yeah, that's *exactly* what they were trying to do. Shame it didn't quite work. Incidentally, one of my family's faves in the day was Chicken Run on PS1, the tie-in to "The Great Escape WITH CHICKENS!!!: The Movie", which was explicitly a MSG clone and quite a good one at that; it doesn't try to be as immersive as TGE, but still has a fairly large open world and is a better, more complete game overall.
I remember a kid around my estate back in 2003-2004, had this game. Great game. At the time it was insane to watch this guy being able to do all the things in the video. Before this, I hadn’t seen anything like it before ! This has brought back a lot of memories even if I just watched and never played it
Well that explains a lot about Kojima's taste of motorcycles he must have heard about the Triumph motorcycle used in Great Escape for the most memorable Steve McQueen scene
A reason for 2000's Great Escape game, it was remake of Great Escape game for UK 's Sincler ZX Spectrum based on film. It was very very popular game inu UK, Portugal and France for Spectrum .
There is another game based on The Great Escape, an old home computer game from 1986, and that game is considered a classic, which might explain where the idea for this game came from.
Man, I loved this game back then. Played through it multiple times and became a fan of the movie too. I do in fact think it’s underrated as is another game by Pivotal called “Conflict: Vietnam”
I've completed this game back in the day 😅 my parents were fans of WW2 films so naturally I had to try out a game based on one of my favorite movies. It was, uh, one of the games of all time 😂
Conflict Desert Storm and Conflict Vietnam were one of the first PS2 games I rented from Blockbuster; I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if you found time to do a video on them some day.
I don't know if you take suggestions at all but there is no game I'd like to see your take on more than Scrapland, a terribly designed sci-fi open world game on the original Xbox that is somehow unique, charming and likeable at the same time. There's a remaster on Steam that basically jusy lets it run on modern PCs and I think you would find it interesting.
Was actually thinking about this game again recently! Really nice to see some gameplay of it again, there was a lot I really liked in this one but never ended up finishing it unfortunately.
I Definitely have rose-tinted glasses about this game 😅 always loved the movie and this game was very unique and occasionally enjoyable. It was brutally hard playing this many years ago but i did eventually beat it. This was before RUclips was around so it took longer figure out than I'd like to admit
When I was a kid I was obsessed with the movie and so my parents got me the game, which I was even more obsessed with. The quirk was so strong. I haven't watched the video yet, but I hope it is as good as I remember.
I LOVED THIS GAME! I remember constantly replaying the mission in daylight where you were hiding your escape attempts in plain sight. It gave off strong hitman vibes and was definitely this game at its best. I must have repressed the motorcycle mission, though. Loved hearing your thoughts!
I love The Great Escape, the first time I saw it was on RUclips where the movie was free with ads while working on some drawings, I love it and it’s one of my favorite movies of all time. It is a slow movie but if you’ve never seen it please do
if you want more vids like this, somehow ive reviewed enough video games based on classic films to warrant a playlist for it: ruclips.net/p/PL643B5filmfGv51OYGiJ6kpL25LSkIohN
Sweet, I needed something to watch. Looks like I'm bingeing minimme today
Recommending 'Prisoner of War' by Codemasters, really underrated hidden gem similar to this
Hey great video mate. I have one request which I wish you could implement into future videos. When covering a video game tie-in to a film, please would you give a spoiler warning when you go into detail on scenes from the film. Had to mute the video for a minute because I haven't yet seen the film.
Minority Report is an odd one, but worth a peak
A reason for 2000's Great Escape game, it was remake of Great Escape game for UK 's Sincler ZX Spectrum based on film. It was very very popular game inu UK, Portugal and France for Spectrum .
I’m always amazed by how you make a 6/10 game sound simultaneously like a 3/10 and a 10/10 game.
Very apt description of how he breaks down video games, haha
That's how averages work.
I don't even know if your 6/10 is accurate. Possibly a 4-5
We call that a "nuanced opinion," rare in consumers these days.
He and whitelight are really good at that. Always get me hyped to play a game I know is super average
I love this channel being a walk down memory lane for covering all of those middle of the road games of the 2000s. Not the classics, not the flops, but the 6/10s (give or take). This was one I grew up with and one I really hoped to see covered on this channel, and I could not be happier.
Also speaking of squad shooters set during World War 2 I'd love to see you cover: Hidden and Dangerous! Especially the second game, made by the Mafia developers (using the same engine as well).
Well said! I love the coverage of games that were well meaning but also missed the mark
I love this channel because I always see your beautiful face
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Bizarre license games based on old films will always be bizarrely fascinating.
From Russia with love , springs to mind
@@dorkbrandon4422 Same with the PS1 Italian Job and The Warriors games
Ahh man I loved ps1 Italian job had so much fun with that game
Warriors on ps2 caught that exact vibe of the movie and did well creating a storyline pre cyrus getting shot
There are some that are great like The Warriers by Rockstar, The god Farther, Scarface, Starwars episode 3 and spiderman.
The God Farter?!!
There's one somewhat similar early 2000s game called "Prisoner of War" where you get carted into pow camps and your objective would usually be to get out of there, iirc. You might be interested in checking it out. It includes things you'd expect, like having to assemble at the roll call at designated times during the day etc. I remember it being more free-form and too much for my child brain, but still tense and fun.
Lol, I remember that game! I used to just run around and talk with the friendly German guards. "Vould you like to try some of my bratwurst? It is ze finest in all of Germany!"
POW was excellent _and_ wasn't slopjank
I realized I keep confusing these two games, being released not too far apart probably didn't help
i loved PoW as a kid, even though i barely could get past the first level!
I personally loved this game as a kid. The nostalgia is real
My grandfather is the first person I ever played Ocarina of Time with. I was on the controller and he would just watch for an hour or two and try to solve the puzzles with me while I visited him during the summer when I was a kid. Years later when he came to visit we went to the rental store to browse. His mind was blown when we found this. Needless to say; it was just like old times with me on the controls and him watching a video game adaptation that was 40 years in the making 😂
Wow!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing your experience with us!!! I too love to watch people play video games!!! My older brother used to play them in front of me, because i was tol ypung to play them, so i didn't know how to play the much harder games with diffivulty slikes, i would get overwhelmed just rotating the PC game's camera!!! So having my older brother playing them in front of let me enjoy the story, gameplay and cutscenes without having to struggle playing the game and losing most of the time!!!
Edit: just reread your comment and your Grand-Father was the one seeing you play, i always wondered how it feels like to see someone watch you play a video game, Yotubers who stream their games online must feel that way!!! Hey, maybe you should become a video game streamer!!! I don't really know, but, anyway, i kind of wish you all the best!!! Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤
Mini I have NO clue how you consistently cover games that feel like hidden memories that only a few of us have. Those random video game boxes you vaguely remember in your collection. Games that you feel you’re the only one that ever played it. It’s truly a gift! I’ll love hearing you cover games like this every single time
The Great Escape is one of the most popular WW2 movies and is referenced in Quentin Tarantino's Oscar Winning film.
@@jordeneyermann They’re talking about the game, not the film. I doubt most people know there was a game adaptation (especially not 40 years after the film’s release).
From 2 months of no uploads to 2 uploads in 9 days is the type of upload schedule I live for
Why do you exist?
@@MegaDeox Why don't you?
How are u in evey comment section? I swear your like a sleep paralysis demon i see every night in the comments while im drifting off.
@@HOTD108_ I don't exist?
@@MegaDeox So you admit it!
It's always cool to see games that would otherwise be in the $5 at Walmart aim so high. Obviously they didn't deliver on most of what they aimed for, but it's executed well enough to see their vision.
Great video, as always! I've slwly been building my collection of 6th gen games and it's always fun when you cover one I don't have, or in this case, have never heard of.
I played the hell out of this as a kid. Loved it, watched the movie because of the game and it’s now in my top 10 favorite movies of all time.
The game was fun, but a lot were left out, I never really understood anything. Watching the movie made it a bit clearer
Yes. Imagine paying full price for this game on release😬
And thank you for covering this and the shout out, much appreciated!
Most unexpected cross promotion ever. RODNEY
My father did...
@@mrsundaymovies you and minimme should to a colab video on something. Best of both worlds!
@@YouFightLikeACow not unexpected tbh because minimme always shouts out James as one of his patrons, I'm Big Ears Batman!
I actually love this video game. One of my childhood staples. Another one I recommend which is very immersive (I'm sure outdated now) is Prisoner of War - a WW2 POW game where you're trying to escape various prison camps through full scheduled days. It's super immersive and stressful when you're skipping out on role-call, breakfast, or recess to steal something from a guards quarters.
I loved this game as a kid can't believe it wasn't mentioned
Same. I was hoping to bake a cake today. How is? your mother
There's actually a game about being a WWII PoW from the same era called "Prisoner of War" that I hope you'll check out. I remember my older brother enjoying it a lot as it was so different from other games of that era.
Talk about unlocking ancient memories, haven't thought about that game in years
I love that game. I wish there's more of it tbh
Had both these games, the glider plane in the attic ?
This was from a weird era of gaming when they started adapting very old movies into video game form like The Godfather, Reservoir Dogs (not too old at that point), Scraface (how could I forget Scarface?), From Russia With Love, and several cancelled games of Taxi Driver and Dirty Harry.
Yeah he said all that in the video.
I actually still want to play the taxi driver and dirty Harry games. Dirty Harry I imagined similar to LA noire, with better gunplay and driving, and taxi driver was a great opportunity to continue the story of the movie and we could have seen Travis decend into villainy.
There was also supposed to be a game based on The Good The Bad & The Ugly too, & a game based on Heat. Gearbox were supposed to be doing that. Not sure why it was cancelled, but obviously, they only signed on to do it to embezzle funding.
@@gsesquire3441 he mentioned literally none of those films/games by name.
@@TheJacklikesvideos He covered it.
This is one of those game that you played once as a child but still remember to this day.
I think all the cool little 'social stealth' ideas in this game really show just how impressive Hitman 2 was the year before - outside of the modern Hitman games, most other games haven't met that high bar of level design mixed with clever use of AI and scripted sequences. I'm reminded of that mission in Black Ops: Cold War for the same sort of appeal.
I love the social stealth system in Contracts and 2, when you could still be caught even if you had a disguise. Always felt dangerous
God bless you for AA, A+ & shovelware coverage of the late 90s through 7th Gen. I am way too familiar with a lot of these games--despite having never played quite a lot of them. Keep on chugging Mr. Mme.
I've always wondered why this game existed in the first place. If minimme-core was a thing, this would be peak.
I remember having this game when I was little and having fond memories of it. And how absolutely jank it was lmao
To a 10 year old in 2004 this game was incredible! Coming from N64 games with was a whole new level of gaming back then.
I remember this bad boy! Childhood memories right here. A classic clunky and janky game full of memories from a simpler and more innocent time in gaming. Love it
I remember playing the demo of this on PC, then a couple of years later I played the entire game. Thank you for reminding me about this game, damn.
you know what is crazy......I remember being a kid when this game came out and thinking "who is going to buy this" and I was right. games like this bombed left and right and so many studios and publishers from that generation went bankrupt. In fact so many games back in the day failed and the publishers got into millions of dollars in debt and just kept going because the revenue was propped up by sports/licensed games but that kept them afloat for a time and at the end of the generation and starting with the new HD generation all went under. Acclaim, Midway, THQ, Eidos (who got bought out by SE)
This game actually sold pretty well
thank you for having the name of the game you're showing gameplay of next to it on every single one! I know it must've been very annoying to do but please know it's welcomed, wish i saw more youtubers do this, it drives me nuts seeing some gameplay that makes me want to play that game but i cant find the game anywhere
Loved this back in the day, you should take a look at Prisoner of War (2002) for the best prison camp escape simulator game
You and Nitro Rad are my 2 favorite youtubers. You truly love playing games and not just stockpiling games.
We need more Steve Mcqueen games. Where is a Bullitt racing game? The Thomas Crown Affair romance sim? Maybe even a Papillion RPG?
He always judges these old games by modern standards. Like the bike level was actually really unique for 2003, there weren't many fps/action games with driving physics.
I love watching your channel. It takes me back to a time in video games I just barely touched but have always missed. The way you can break apart the convoluted good and bad of these convoluted-ass games is amazing. I never feel like I know exactly what you’re gonna say next- your perspective is so unique and thorough, I’m always pleasantly surprised.
Hey Minimme, did you know they tried to make a Taxi Driver game in 2006? There's not much footage left but what there is, it's wild.
Happy 20th birthday Great Escape. A time in video gaming that was PNP fun and simple things.
For some reason you just unlocked some weird memories in my head... not from this game tho, but from Commandos Strike Force; that one had a "kinda similar" Spy char that needed to pick up disguises and stuff to go undetected, and idk, for some reason I found it similar to this one. Maybe it's the janky aspect? You should give it a try someday, it's a really odd FPS game in a series of RTS games, so it may be interesting
I LOVED The Great Escape movie and game as a child. Played the game up until 2017 when my original 2001 PS2 crapped out
Blast from the past! I just barely have the inkling of a memory reading a preview for this game in a magazine when I was a little kid just getting into video games.
Thank you for mentioning the the train level! I was trying to complete that when I played it a couple of decades ago. It's such a perculiar game, and I hope you review another game similar to this called Prisoner of War
I remember being completely pumped for this game before release. The marketing plus my pre teen brain made it seem like a prison escape immersive sim. You couldn’t imagine the disappointment I felt once I actually got my hands on it.
I remember getting a free demo of this with a newspaper when I was about 8 or 9 years old - I was surprised that (I think) over half the game was in the demo and absolutely loved the game. Bought a copy a couple years back to finally try the full game out, but there were weird bugs like not being able to move the crate you talked about.
I always wanted to rent this game as a kid. I didn't know this was a movie tie-in, but the sheer idea of a game based on an escape sounded intriguing. Knowing that it runs off of the Conflict engine would have been even more enticing given that my friend owned that game and we played the hell out of it, even if it wasn't all that great.
Prisoner of war already did this a year before
@@dorkbrandon4422 Sure, but a title like "The Great Escape" is more eye-catching.
Hope you're having a nice weekend, minimme! Thanks for the upload.
I had this as a kid! Never got past the opening mounted gun plane sequence, I was that bad at it haha
unless it's been buried by the algorithm I'd love to see you cover the Conflict series Pivotal worked on too. The first one is available on Steam but it seems like the other 3 are abandonware, perhaps bordering on lost for the final game. They're basic squad based shooters that do hold up decently well.
hahaha i remember you for your chesington pov videos, crazy to see you're producing such incredible content now. Loving it!
I saw this game at Blockbuster all the time and wanted to rent it, but there was something I always wanted more.
*rents MGS3 for the 8th time
@@unbearifiedbear1885 Exactly. Lol
Hey minimme, loved this vid as always. Your selection of pretty obscure but interesting games is always impressive. Can I suggest Prisoner of War, a very similar game set in a POW camp that came out in 2001? I played it as a kid and absolutely loved it - though I'm not sure how well it would hold up now. I was very excited for The Great Escape years later when it was announced, but I never got very far into it as I didn't think it was as good as Prisoner of War.
You just smacked me in the face with nostalgia. I could never finish the first level back in 2013.
It's time to move on.
@David Wolfish nah...time to beat it ^-^
@@KorbinX maybe it is time
It’s so weird how many games you talk about or bring up, such as Conflict in this video, that I thought nobody knew outside of me. King Kong was the same way, it’s really weird man.
I had no idea this game was made by the same studio responsible for the Conflict games, I loved those so much. I remember always passing by TGE in the $5 used bin at Gamestop and thinking "The hell is this, some Medal of Honor/Wolfenstein ripoff?" This was the same mindset that forbade me from every picking up Fallout 3 or New Vegas for years, so thank god I fixed that lol.
You should do reviews of the Conflict games as well, I really miss that series. Those games were so much fun.
11:10 The actual scene with the jump over the fence had been done outside of Rosenheim at the Chiemsee in Bavaria. Also most of the cuts of the following Germans on motor bikes had bben done also by Steve McQueen himself in the best tradition of Silent Movies were those cuts had been produched the same way Just the famous jump scene had been done in a stunt by a professional out of insurnce reasons The wire by the way was a rubber prop
The camp by the way was a forest property in Grünwald, in the South of Munich and the shown train was a Privat trek between Munich and Tegernsee/Bad Tölz with a Museum´s train often used fdr filming and aveertisements shoots
yes the actual bike chase in the game had bee as bad as the car race in MAFIA
So crazy experience with this game. At the end of the PS2 era ($1-5 game bins at every game store) I purchased this. In my young age, I had no idea there was a movie. I ended up buying the movie and thoroughly enjoyed both! Great nostalgia. Thanks for the video!
Your content is always so entertaining, minimme!
Always happy to see you upload. One of the best channels 💙
The Saboteur is similar in that it has a lot of rough edges, but has more fleshed out stealth with a disguise system similar to what TGE had planned, as well as a full open world.
Loved this game as a kid, and I still play it every now and then on an emulator. It’s got a nice atmosphere and the OST is extremely underrated. I do find it funny though that the most effective way to play the game during camp levels is to lure the guards inside the huts by opening the doors in their view, waiting for them to come in and investigate and then finally strangling them as they’re about to leave.
Your the coolest channel. Deserve way more subs
I loved this game. My uncle who was elderly came to stay with us as a kid. He loved the movie. And i showed him how to play the game on my original xbox, i basically had to fight with him over my own xbox when id come home from school because he played it so much. I wish he had lived long enough to see red dead redemption 2. He loved westerns.
Man. I remember playing this with my dad in 2004. Good times.
I also find it funny during the train level that you have to jump through millions of hoops and murder dozens of guards just so you can get a key to unlock the back door of the train so you and Blythe can jump off it, even though there’s plenty of other spots on the train where you both easily could have jumped off from as well.
Love the mid to low tier games of yesteryear, usually was a cheaper game so you don't expect much which leads to more enjoyment when it surpasses those low hype levels. Thanks for the awesome videos!
you should play death to spies and its sequel in case you wanna see this type of game (3rd person stealth shooter set during ww2) done right
it's basically just hitman but you play as a NKVD officer and it's legitimately really well done
Conflict desert storm and the great escape were really good games to be honest
I have to admit I enjoy when games take small scenes from movies and expand them, adds more context to the movies
Can definitely be over done but
The variety in genres and how fun they seem to be is impressive for what seems to be kind of low budget.
0:59 okay I think we can ALL AGREE that Agent Under Fire was an EXCELLENT game for the Ps2 era. Graphics were great, controls were superb, and just the plot of the overall game was FIRE 🔥
Also note Codemasters Prisoner of war, another option for the time
So my takeaway halfway through was "oh, it wanted to be an immersive stealth sim a la Thief or Deus Ex when it grew up," then you mentioned the aborted salute mechanic and yeah, that's *exactly* what they were trying to do. Shame it didn't quite work.
Incidentally, one of my family's faves in the day was Chicken Run on PS1, the tie-in to "The Great Escape WITH CHICKENS!!!: The Movie", which was explicitly a MSG clone and quite a good one at that; it doesn't try to be as immersive as TGE, but still has a fairly large open world and is a better, more complete game overall.
I remember a kid around my estate back in 2003-2004, had this game. Great game. At the time it was insane to watch this guy being able to do all the things in the video. Before this, I hadn’t seen anything like it before ! This has brought back a lot of memories even if I just watched and never played it
Those shadowless outdoor environments are a bit bizzare looking.
The vibe of this reminds me of the game Death to Spies if anyone else knows that one
I have a strong nostalgia for this game solely because of the ad in the back of my KISS comics Dark Horse were publishing when I was a kid
12:52 "I had to steal something from under someone's nose..." - they even adapted the scene where they steal Hitler's moustache?!
I've never considered that the amount of licensed games in the 2000s had a correlation to goldeneye, but it makes sense
Well that explains a lot about Kojima's taste of motorcycles he must have heard about the Triumph motorcycle used in Great Escape for the most memorable Steve McQueen scene
A reason for 2000's Great Escape game, it was remake of Great Escape game for UK 's Sincler ZX Spectrum based on film. It was very very popular game inu UK, Portugal and France for Spectrum .
There is another game based on The Great Escape, an old home computer game from 1986, and that game is considered a classic, which might explain where the idea for this game came from.
Man, I loved this game back then. Played through it multiple times and became a fan of the movie too. I do in fact think it’s underrated as is another game by Pivotal called “Conflict: Vietnam”
Such a great game, when i was a kid i played in PS2. I remember it was very hard game but fun!
I love the call out to the Conflict games. I remember playing them when I was younger but no one else I know has ever even heard of them
Ah, Conflict Desert Storm. Now that takes me back. I gotta do a video on Conflict Vietnam at some point.
I've completed this game back in the day 😅 my parents were fans of WW2 films so naturally I had to try out a game based on one of my favorite movies. It was, uh, one of the games of all time 😂
Conflict Desert Storm and Conflict Vietnam were one of the first PS2 games I rented from Blockbuster; I would LOVE LOVE LOVE if you found time to do a video on them some day.
yoooo we need a video on the Conflict games, i used to live for them back in the day. the POW mission was goated
I really enjoy listening to you talk about video games
I remember the Conflict games fondly. I had desert storm 1&2, vietnam and global storm. All very good fun. Great on split screen too
I don't know if you take suggestions at all but there is no game I'd like to see your take on more than Scrapland, a terribly designed sci-fi open world game on the original Xbox that is somehow unique, charming and likeable at the same time. There's a remaster on Steam that basically jusy lets it run on modern PCs and I think you would find it interesting.
Was actually thinking about this game again recently! Really nice to see some gameplay of it again, there was a lot I really liked in this one but never ended up finishing it unfortunately.
I remembered when Drew Scanlon played this on a UPF back in the day, was always curious about this game
The stealth AI in this game was ahead of it’s time. I really enjoyed this game as a kid
I rented this game when I was a kid. All I remember is the opening scene, which probably indicates I never got past it.
Thanks for covering this for us! I loved the film when I grew up and I had no idea there was a game!
There’s another game called “Prisoner of War” you should check it out!
I Definitely have rose-tinted glasses about this game 😅 always loved the movie and this game was very unique and occasionally enjoyable. It was brutally hard playing this many years ago but i did eventually beat it. This was before RUclips was around so it took longer figure out than I'd like to admit
When I was a kid I was obsessed with the movie and so my parents got me the game, which I was even more obsessed with. The quirk was so strong. I haven't watched the video yet, but I hope it is as good as I remember.
Reminds me of Prisoner of War, also on PS2. Maybe you could review that?
Thanks for making this video, it showed to me an awesome movie that i never would have seen otherwise.
I loved this game so much though. My brother and used to scream I GOT DIRT IN MY ENGINE whenever our motorcycle would get shot
I LOVED THIS GAME! I remember constantly replaying the mission in daylight where you were hiding your escape attempts in plain sight. It gave off strong hitman vibes and was definitely this game at its best. I must have repressed the motorcycle mission, though. Loved hearing your thoughts!
honestly, the idea of a Hitman style game set around a scenario similar to The Great Escape, would be pretty kickass.
I love The Great Escape, the first time I saw it was on RUclips where the movie was free with ads while working on some drawings, I love it and it’s one of my favorite movies of all time. It is a slow movie but if you’ve never seen it please do