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"Dedicated to the memory of the 50"
GAME:  THE GREAT ESCAPE
PLATFORM:  PLAYSTATION2
GENRE:  ACTION/ADVENTURE/STRATEGY
CREATOR:  GOTHAM GAMES Copyright 2003
AUTHOR OF THIS FAQ:  Kevin Butler AKA War Doc
E-MAIL:  kevinb(at)technologist(dot)com
FAQ VERSION:  1.01
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNIT   I:  INTRODUCTION
1.  Legal Stuff
2.  Version Information
3.  Acknowledgements
4.  Welcome
5.  Overview
UNIT  II:  GAME INFORMATION
6.  The Missions
UNIT III:  PLAYING THE GAME
7.  Getting Started
7.1  Menu Items
8.  Planning Your Escape
8.1  Objective Screen
8.2  Pause Screen
9.  Making Your Escape
UNIT  IV:  STRATEGIES
10.  General Strategies
11.  Mission Strategies
UNIT   V:  APPENDIX
12.  People You Will Meet
12.1  Ferrets
12.2  Goons
12.3  Gestapo
12.4  Regular Combat Troops
12.5  Civilians
13.  Weapons
13.1  Luger 9mm
13.2  Kar 95
13.3  MP-40
13.4  Sten MK 2
13.5  Stielhandgranate
13.6  Panzerfaust
13.7  MG-42
13.8  40mm Anti-Aircraft Gun
UNIT  VI:  CONCLUSION
14.  Conclusion
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To find a particular chapter or subchapter do the following:
1.  Highlight the chapter or subchapter name you wish to find.
2.  Press CTRL-C
3.  Press CTRL-F
4.  Press CTRL-V
5.  Press CTRL-F
5.  You will arrive at the desired chapter or subchapter.
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| 1.  LEGAL STUFF |============================================================
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This guide may not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal
private use.  It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed
publicly without advanced permission from the author.  Use of this guide on
any other web sit or as part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and
a violation of copyright.  All content in this guide is Copyright 2003 by
Kevin Butler.  Only the sites listed below have permission to publish this
work or to display it:
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If you wish to put this guide on your site, e-mail me and ask.  Save yourself
the headache of putting up with lawsuits and whatnot because you failed to ask
a simple "Can I post your guide on ?".  If you wish to use info
in this guide, please acknowledge that you have done so.
If you see this guide on any other site then the one listed above, please
e-mail me.  If you wish to ask questions or give input to this guide, please
e-mail me.  Just have The Great Escape as the subject so I know it isn't
another kooky vendor trying to sell me hair gel or another XXX site telling me
I have new friends.
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| 2.  VERSION INFORMATION |====================================================
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Version 1.0    9/25/03:  A guide is born.
Version 1.01  12/10/04:  Added www.wonderdogsoftware.com to the allowed list.
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| 3.  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |=======================================================
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The following are a list of people or organizations that have made this FAQ
possible:
My wonderful family (who has had to put up with the tapping on the keyboard)
Gotham Games for making a great adventure game
GameFAQ's for putting up this FAQ
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| 4.  WELCOME |================================================================
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Welcome to my FAQ for The Great Escape.  Since this is an action, adventure,
and strategy game, there is no walkthrough per se.  Instead, this FAQ is broken
up into parts.  First you will be given an explanation of choices you have for
playing the game.  Next, you will be given all the possible commands you can
give with a brief description of what those commands are.  The last part is
dedicated to strategy.  This strategy will give you an idea on how to
accomplish the objectives set before you.  Input is appreciated along with
constructive criticism.  If you wish to e-mail me thoughts on this FAQ,  better
ways of doing things, other strategies, etc., feel free.  Make sure you put The
Great Escape FAQ in the subject.  If you don't, I'm liable to discard the
e-mail as spam.
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| 5.  OVERVIEW |===============================================================
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The Great Escape is based on the movie of the same name.  In turn, the movie is
loosely based on actual events about a big POW escape from Stalag Luft III,
located in Sagan Germany, on the 24th and 25th of March in 1944.  The plan was
to get 250 POW's out of the camp.  The rationale was that it would tie up
enormous resources the Germans could ill afford since they were having to deal
with the Russians on the Eastern Front, Americans and British coming up through
Italy, and the possibility of a cross channel invasion.  Three tunnels were
actually dug.  They were named "Tom", "Dick", and "Harry".  Tom was discovered
during the digging and was subsequently sealed off by the Germans.  Harry
eventually became the escape tunnel.  Extending to over 300 feet, it fell short
about 60 feet from the woods surrounding the POW camp.  Other factors,
including an air raid, caused the entire operation to go slower then planned.
Eventually, only 76 men managed to escape from the POW camp.  The plan, though,
did work as it tied up approximately one million German policeman, soldiers,
civilians, and Gestapo agents in trying to capture the escaped POW's.  A decree
was issued by Adolf Hitler that 50% of the escaped POW's would be shot and
cremated.  The Gestapo eventually shot 50 captured POW's and returned the other
23 back to Stalag Luft III.  The numbers don't add up because three POW's
actually successfully made it out of Germany.  Two got to neutral Sweden and
one made it to Gibraltar.  This was wholly a British operation and it was
appropriately dubbed "The Great Escape" because of the massive amounts of
confusion it caused.  After the war, many of the perpetrators of the execution
of the 50 POW's were arrested and made to stand trial for their crimes.  The
game itself is based on the movie which, for the most part, accounts for the
above events pretty well.  The characters from the movie are the ones you will
be playing as in the game.
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| 6.  THE MISSIONS |===========================================================
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The Great Escape consists of 18 missions.  You will play through these
scenarios as one of the below characters:
Flight Lieutenant Andy MacDonald "Intelligence"
Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick "The Manufacturer"
Flight Lieutenant Bob Anthony Hendley "The Scrounger"
Captain Virgil Hilts "The Cooler King"
Flight Lieutenant Colin "The Forger" Blythe (You will not be able to play
Blythe per se.  Instead, he will always be with Hendley and as Hendley, you
will issue commands to Blythe.  The reason Blythe is with Hendley is because
Blythe is blind.)
NOTE:  These are the full names of the characters from the movie "The Great
Escape" Copyright 1963 by MGM Inc.
The 18 missions you will be playing through are:
+-----------+----------------------++-----------+----------------------------+
| MISSION # |     MISSION NAME     || MISSION # |       MISSION NAME         |
+-----------+----------------------++-----------+----------------------------+
|    1      |     Bomber Raid      ||    10     | The Great Escape           |
+-----------+----------------------++-----------+----------------------------+
|    2      |   Winter Breakout    ||    11     | Last Train Home            |
+-----------+----------------------++-----------+----------------------------+
|    3      |      The Castle      ||    12     | Behind Enemy Lines         |
+-----------+----------------------++-----------+----------------------------+
|    4      |   Struggle in the    ||    13     | Airfield Escape            |
|           |      Mountains       |+-----------+----------------------------+
+-----------+----------------------+|    14     | On the Run!                |
|    5      |  Burn the Code Book  |+-----------+----------------------------+
+-----------+----------------------+|    15     | Resistance Collaborator    |
|    6      |   The Cooler King    |+-----------+----------------------------+
+-----------+----------------------+|    16     | Ambush!                    |
|    7      |     Infiltration     |+-----------+----------------------------+
+-----------+----------------------+|    17     | Full Throttle              |
|    8      |  Delousing Breakout  |+-----------+----------------------------+
+-----------+----------------------+|    18     | Jump to Victory            |
|    9      |    Reconnaissance    |+----------------------------------------+
+-----------+----------------------++
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| 7.  GETTING STARTED |========================================================
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Once the game has loaded, you will be presented with the following screen:
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|          +--------------------------------------------------------+         |
|          |                         NEW GAME                       |         |
|          +--------------------------------------------------------+         |
|          |                        LOAD GAME                       |         |
|          +--------------------------------------------------------+         |
|          |                         OPTIONS                        |         |
|          +--------------------------------------------------------+         |
|          |                     SELECT MISSION*                    |         |
|          +--------------------------------------------------------+         |
|          |                THE GREATEST ESCAPE MODE*               |         |
|          +--------------------------------------------------------+         |
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/ 7.1  Menu Items /____________________________________________________________
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| NEW GAME |
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Start a new game.
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| LOAD GAME |
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Load a game, if there are any saved, from a memory card.
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| OPTIONS |
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This choice allows you to custom tailor your playing environment.  You can do
the following things:
Sound Effects Volume:  Adjust volume of sound effects or speech.
Music Volume:  Adjusts the volume of background music.
Controller Vibration:  Turns the vibration On/Off.  Default is ON.
Control Configuration:  You can either select a premade configuration or custom
make your own.  This FAQ uses the first configuration.
Invert Y Axis:  Instead of pushing down on the controller to cause your view to
go down and up to cause your view to go up, it is the opposite.
Pushing down causes your view to go up and pushing up causes
your view to go down.
Center Screen:  Centers the game on the television.
NOTE:  Items marked with asterisks will only appear on the Main Menu after you
have successfully completed all 18 missions.
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| SELECT MISSION |
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Allows you to go back through any mission of your choice.  You just choose the
mission from the main menu.
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| THE GREATEST ESCAPE MODE |
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You go back through the game starting at mission 1.  There is a twist, though,
to this mode.  Every mission has a specific time limit.  If you fail to
complete the mission within the specified time, you fail the mission.
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| 8.  PLANNING YOUR ESCAPE |===================================================
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There are several things you need to know in order to plan your escape without
being caught.  You need to know different actions you can perform, what your
objectives are, and of course being able to restart a mission when all else
fails.
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/ 8.1  Main Screen /___________________________________________________________
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During game play, this is the screen you will be on.  Below is an example of
this screen with explanations of the different icons you will see:
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