Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
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Get in touch with your inner hoodlum! I live in Los Angeles and see enough of this sort of thing in real life; rarely would I consider it “art.” Still, this looks like a pretty fun game and maybe it’ll keep more taggers inside in front of their televisions instead of crapping up my neighborhood with their sopho-moronic territorial piddlings.
Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure takes you to the early days of a new art form. It’s the early 1980s and you’re a kid from the ghetto, discovering the new world of graffiti art.
As “Trane,” you have a social conscience, too: Your neighborhood is struggling and the crooked government is doing nothing to help, so you decide to send a message.
Use street smarts to uncover a mayor’s dirty secret, then spread the Word with your graffiti. Along the way, you’ll prove you deserve to be the writer with the biggest rep: All-City King. As the newest graf writer out there, you’ll have to live up to the old street motto: “Get IN, Get UP and Get OUT.”
Prove that art can change the world! Eleven distinct city environments, with 20 gameplay levels Authentic tags from more than 50 real-life graffiti artists - 6 who appear in-game as mentors. World-renowned hip-hop artist Talib Kweli is the voice of Trane.
- Use Sneak Mode to infiltrate areas and avoid capture as you creep through the city
- New Intuition system, allowing you to find ideal places to tag
- Bomb walls, billboards and trains in high-pressure situations, using multiple skills and styles
- Groundbreaking creative system lets you write & improve your skills, as you go from tagging with markers to making murals with rollers, stickers, stencils and(of course) aerosol cans
- You’ll risk your life facing city authorities and rival graf gangs as you write up the city - unique fighting mechanics combine kicking, grappling and punching with improvised weaponry
5 Comments
yomommamamamama
March 29th, 2007
at 1:44pm
hey bitch stop writing about games…u suck we all like these games motha fucka stop making websites about this u are a motha fuken pimp u asshole
Robert Glen Fogarty
March 29th, 2007
at 3:36pm
I didn’t write about the game, yomommamamamama, I wrote about taggers. They’re idiots. Guess you took it personally. Relax, home skillet.
But… hold on a second! Did you just call me a pimp? Thanks? I guess?
Czar One
May 30th, 2007
at 2:00pm
That comment about “taggers” is the an uneducated statement.
You don’t think of it as art because you are afraid of different and new ideas, only believe what society and government seem fititng as “acceptable.” You considered us vandals and troubled youth, because that’s what the government has told the people to consider us.
So, take a step back next time, wait ten seconds, think before you let others think for you.
Robert Glen Fogarty
May 30th, 2007
at 4:22pm
Nah, Czar One. Not “afraid of different and new ideas.” Just sick of seeing crap like this and this when I walk out my front door. If there’s actual value in the graffiti (like here and here), I don’t call their creators “taggers.” I call them artists. If no statement is made other than, “Hey, look! I was here!” or “My gang owns your neighborhood,” or “NO! MY gang owns your neighborhood!” I think my annoyance is justified.
CUR3 Tagzz
May 31st, 2007
at 7:43am
Being a tag artist myself, and having the loving urban art just as much as the next ‘tagger’ i can see where his annoyance comes from. It is the gang members that write threatening tags claiming ‘turf’ and what not that give graffiti such a bad name.
A common misconception is that graffiti is always associated with gangs. its not. graffiti is not something that only occurs in poor areas or areas close to big cities. i come from a middle class area in a rural environment but i do tags.
i wish that police and city officials would take the time to analyze tags and murals and not automatically slap the gang label on it. but that is the easiest thing for them to do. say that it is gang related and not have to actually investigate it. if they did actually do in depth investigations they would see that most of the time what they call gang related isnt. and also they could find out which ones are gang related and crack down on those.
i wish there was a task force to fight ignorance. of course that would cause overcrowding in jails. and most would be overcrowded with politicians and city officials. open your eyes. look deeper than the surface. it will do you some good, i promise.
but i agree completely that gang tags are completely ridiculous, and uneeded. all street gangs should be considered as illegal terrorist organizations. that is what they are. terrorists. because of them many people live in more fear than they do of islamic terrorists. the war on terrorism shouldn’t just be going after military radicals. they should also go after street gangs and gang leaders. i know that they do try to crack down on gang violence, but are they doing enough?