This is not a game you blaze through in an afternoon, or something you play for more than a few hours at a time. Scribblenauts was the last game that encouraged me to experiment to this degree so if you enjoy that aspect of discovery, you should consider this game. The game does reward perseverance and trial. The game immerses you in the mundane, with quests occasionally making you feel short-changed as the effort is seldom worth the reward. Routine is baked into the game design and the monotony of prison takes some time getting used to. It’s defiantly overwhelming in an age of instant gratification. The Escapists 2 is a lot like Marmite – it’s very difficult to be neutral about it, and the stage variety doesn’t help if you’re not a fan of the concept. Some of the missions are timed, adding a layer of stress to the core game objective.
Unlike the first game, the locations are not strictly prisons and you will experience everything from escaping a train, an aeroplane and a space colony. Once triumphed (and given a false sense of achievement), you are given access to three more prisons, and eventually unlock 10 maps (excluding a pre-order). A few frustrations crept in early as I found the controls to be unintuitive, and stumbled between holding and pressing X, equipping items and moving furniture. The game’s depth is hinted at, but not revealed upfront. The first level acts as a basic tutorial – not so much showing you the ropes, but flashing them and alluding to their tensility without letting you actually grasp them. The ‘police siren’ opening credits trigger memories of Grand Theft Auto, invoking a pseudo-Pavlovian response, coupled with memories of Prison Break, Shawshank Redemption and less popular but still fun titles, like Stallone’s ‘Escape Plan.’ A follow-up to 2015’s deliciously popular prison-escape simulator, The Escapists 2 stays true to fans with more freedom and level variety, but fails to endear detractors.
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