Sony Classic ‘The Getaway’ Could Be Making A Comeback

Sony’s classic crime caper The Getaway could be getting a remake, according to fan speculation on Twitter. 

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In case you don’t remember, The Getaway was Sony’s answer to the GTA series. The game featured a sandbox version of London and an 18-rated story about an ex-bank robber trying to retrieve his captive son. The Getaway was an extraordinary feat for 2002, with the game pushing hardware to the absolute limit.

The Getaway has been dormant since the release of its sequel, The Getaway: Black Monday, back in 2004. Since then, fans have been eagerly awaiting Sony dusting the cobwebs off the IP, realising the series’ full potential on modern-day hardware.

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Thanks to information gathered by a fan account for the game, there’s now speculation that Sony might be about to bring back the game in time for its 20th anniversary [via Gamingbible].

As noted by Twitter user @Return2London: “A job listing was posted [in 2019] for Sony London hiring for a AAA PS Exclusive.”

What makes these rumours so interesting is the fact that half the information is from ex-developer Mike Rouse. Rouse now makes retrogaming videos under the name “Retro Gamer Boy.”. Rouse apparently claimed that Sony was working on something related to The Getaway, though he didn’t know exactly what [via Comicbook].

He claimed that he’d heard the rumour from contacts at Sony, and that he believed it to be true, at least as of 2019.

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While at this stage this is all just hearsay and rumours, perhaps there’s a good chance that The Getaway hasn’t been completely forgotten. The aforementioned job listings do pertain to Sony London, the studio that was created by merging Team Soho and Psygnosis’ Camden.

Who knows, perhaps Sony is about to use The Getaway franchise to compete with the inevitable release of GTA 6. At the very least, it’s nice to see Sony giving big-budget projects to studios in the UK.

Would you like to see The Getaway get a remake?

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