High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Getaway is an action-adventure open world video game developed by Team Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation 2 in 2002. The Getaway is the first in the series and is said to have been inspired by British gangland films Get Carter and Snatch. Initially, the release of the game was to coincide with the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, but was delayed by 18 months due to the difficulty of re-creating large areas of London in high resolution.