Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure

A great game for those who like hip-hop culture. Cool soundtrack, graffiti, parkour, hand-to-hand combat - all this is Marc Ecko's Getting Up. The game was released in 2006 and follows a young graffiti artist, Train, who takes to the streets to gain respect and avenge his father's death. To do this, our set includes stickers, spray cans, felt-tip pens, stencils, brushes and rollers - everything you can use to apply a cool design to a wall, train, or billboard. The game has an incredible number of levels, each of which is interesting in its own way and does not get boring: metro, SSK headquarters, meat factory, airship. Cool combat system. You can fight with anything, from fists to spray paint and all sorts of sticks and pipes. The game, by the way, is not easy, if only because the control… Read full

I think that Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure should be viewed not so much as a game, but as one big documentary about the development of the Street Art movement. The main message in the game, despite its plot, does not at all say that you need to go against the system, oppose the security forces, write nasty things on the walls, hit people and overthrow the government, although the idea is that graffiti can be used as a tool of political struggle — still slips through.

The main message is a little different. The fact is that creativity, in any of its manifestations, be it: Street Art, painting, music, writing books, requires effort from a person, constant training, practice, experimentation, work on one’s own style. You can be an incredibly talented person, but if you don’t … Read full