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The Getaway Missions - Done In Real Life

Posted by simoniker on from the too-much-time-on-hands dept.

Geeky Boy Fan writes "A site called The Real Getaway Tour features fans of the PlayStation 2 game, The Getaway, doing the missions in real life." This gritty, London-based gangland game uses a surprisingly accurate game world, so it's possible to find the place the hero's son gets kidnapped and even drive the same car out of the hospital featured in the game. Fortunately for law and order, you can't steal an armored vehicle from Covent Garden in real life, but apparently, you can pretend.

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  1. Re:A geocities site on slashdot by simoniker · · Score: 2, Informative

    FWIW, I actually emailed the guys running this site before posting the story, to see if they could mirror it somewhere other than Geocities, and they said they'd signed up for some kind of bandwidth deal which meant the site had no bandwidth cap.

    But they do pay extra for each GB over their monthly limit, so hopefully a subpage Slashdotting won't actually cost 'em much cash. Wacky.