The Great Escape

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. Plot The game begins with a recreation of the opening moments of the movie, featuring the dialogue between Oberst von Luger, the commandant of Stalag Luft III, and RAF Group Captain Ramsey, the de facto leader of the Allied prisoners in the camp. The first few levels of the game are framed as Ramsey recounting the previous exploits of the prominent prisoners in the camp to RAF Squadron Leader Bartlett. These include MacDonald's winter escape from Dulag Luft X and then a castle prison in 1940; Sedgwick's daring attempts to prevent the Germans from retrieving a communications code book from the wreckage of a downed RAF bomber in 1941; and Hilts' escape from Dulag Luft V in 1942. All three men are eventually captured by the Germans and transported to Stalag Luft III. In 1944, Hilts joins the escape committee overseen by Ramsey and Bartlett. One level follows Hilts escaping the camp via the blind spot between two guard towers to perform area reconnaissance for Bartlett; the other, set during the night of the fateful escape itself, sees Sedgwick and Ashley-Pitt retrieving the length of rope requested by Hilts. A total of 76 prisoners manage to escape the camp in the dark of night.