#THE ESCAPIST GAME XBOX ONE FULL#
Shades of Full Metal Jacket spring to mind when using this weapon against other prisoners. My current favourite is a bar of soap in a sock. Place them into the empty crafting sections, press craft and hey presto you have a tool, weapon or maybe even a disguise. It's an easy enough system to get to grips with and all you do is select the items you want to use, you have three empty shout to use. And this is also where the crafting section comes in. Inmates with flashing yellow icons above their heads have items you can purchase. What's the one thing you need to escape, tools. Recruit enough and you will have your own prison gang that you can use to harass/intimidate other prisoners. Want the prisoners on your side? Giving out cash gifts or presents will make your reputation soar and prisoners will be eager to join your ranks. Take a hit out on another prisoner and he will be looking for revenge. Got yourself a nice new tool? Then make sure you hide it well otherwise a random search night uncover it. You really do have to keep 2 steps ahead of the guards. I was not prepared for how taxing and punishing this game is. If you do get caught it's back to the drawing board. If the suspicion level reaches 90 or over its another night in the infirmary. This is where you have to keep an eye on your heat metre. Get caught and it's a bloody good beating off the guards or other inmates, a night in the infirmary and if you're really unlucky your cell getting searched.
Don't get spotted and you will be back in your own cell within seconds hiding away all your stolen homes. This tactic of stealing comes with its own risk reward system though.
#THE ESCAPIST GAME XBOX ONE FREE#
During your free time you can meet the other inmates, take on revenge attacks, arrange for attacks to be carried out on your behalf and enter the other inmates cells and steal all their hidden goodies. Your free time is where you will explore every nook and cranny so you can start to plan your escape. So when you get free time you must make the most of it or you're never going to escape. This may come across as limiting what fun you can have but you are in prison and that's the life you must lead. But more importantly you might be lucky enough to get a job next to an empty room which you can use to hide your tools of the trade or more importantly use it for an easier escape route.
Mess up at work and you will lose your job and the disposable income that comes with it which you can use to buy tools, pay other prisoners to do your dirty work and. Or if someone else gets beaten up jump in there and steal their stuff before one of the guards spots you and if they do spot you its a beating and I night in the infirmary. The steam from the hot water will blind the guards vision so if you have been paid by another prisoner to beat someone up this is your best opportunity. But much more importantly there is always something dodgy going on in the showers and no I don't mean that. After all cleanliness is next to Godliness. After exercise it's time to hit the showers. Need something a bit more intellectual to do? Hit the library or computer room to beef up your intelligence. Weightlifting improves your strength and running improves your speed. Now this might seem like a pointless exercise (nudge, nudge) but nothing you do in The Escapist is without a purpose. Get your guns pumped and your legs running as you hit the weights and treadmill. Plastics knives, spoons and forks have never meant so much to me. Then it's off for breakfast and your first opportunity to steal some tools to help you dig your escape tunnel. Miss it and the guards won't think twice about giving you a good beating. Routine is the order of the day here and don't you forget it. This led to a bit of confusion when I first started playing but thankfully there are various help menus you can turn to.
The Escapist starts with a very simple and very brief tutorial and I do mean brief. Don’t be fooled by its simple premise and looks, this game is hard and a real brain teaser but is it fun? And if they have taught us all one thing about escaping prison its that its bloody painstaking and The Escapist is no slouch in this department either. Shawshank Redemption, Escape From Alcatraz and The Great Escape all have one thing on common, prison breaks.