Reportedly, The Great Escape (the game), like The Great Escape (the movie), will involve a lot of stealth action and intrigue as well as some practically-obligatory motorcycle stunt driving sequences made famous by Terrence "Call-me-by-my-middle-name" Steve McQueen (before he died, obviously).

Along with interactive reproductions of Don't-call-me-Terry McQueen's character, Virgil "The Cooler King" Hilts, who's voice and likeness were actually licensed courtesy of son Chadwick "Call me Chad" McQueen and The Terry McQueen Testamentary Trust, The Great Escape game will have playable versions of three other great Escapers, but not necessarily the likenesses of their otherwise unlicensed actor counterparts. That is, there's to be a playable Louis "The Manufacturer" Sedgwick character, but not an official look-alike of celluloid counterpart James Coburn, who died in 2002. There's an Andy "Intelligence" MacDonald type character by not an iota of reference to prolific Scottish actor Gordon Jackson, who died in 1990, so isn't actually so prolific anymore.

Interestingly, there's also an interactive version of the movie's Bob "The Scrounger" Hendley character, who was played by the venerable James "Dropped the 'Bum' off my last name for obvious reasons" Garner who isn't dead just now, God bless him.

Less interestingly, there are no digitized characterizations of Roger "Big X" Bartlett as played by Richard "Upgraded my Sir to Lord" Attenborough, non-dead; no Colin "The Forger" Blythe as played by Donald "Sir is good enough, I suppose" Pleasence, who's been dead since 1995; no Eric "Dispersal" Ashley-Pitt as played by David "Stop calling me U.N.C.L.E." McCallum who hasn't been dead; no Archibald "The Mole" Ives as played by Angus "Still keeping busy doing British TV shows" Lennie, who hasn't been reported as dead but, rather, still keeping busy doing British TV shows; nor a team of other notable characters from an ensemble cast that happened to include some scenes with Steve "I'm hot so give me top billing" McQueen.

Befittingly, The Great Escape game will purportedly take liberties with the movie's premise as well, adding gameplay items and elements like sniper rifles (apparently they cut the sniper rife sequence out of the movie to keep it down to a brisk three hours) and fist fights (because all that cerebral character and plot development is best left to the movies and pummeling one's way through a game is more fun).

Steve McQueen's enduring popularity in spite of his chronic deadness immediately precipitated by a plainly (in hindsight) fatal heart attack can be attributed to the aforementioned Chadwick as well as Neile "First Ex-wife and Trustee of my Stevie's Estate" Adams, and, ultimately, The Roger Richman Agency, Inc.

Through Richman, a licensing agency specializing in "protecting" and promoting the personas of world-renowned entertainment and historical personalities, including other famous dead people--like Albert Einstein, Betty Grable, Otis Redding and the Wright Brothers--, Terrence-Steve has also munificently endorsed the Ford Motor Co., The Gap, The Shirt Shed, Honda, Levi Strauss & Co., Merrydown Cider, Mitsubishi, Canandaigua Wine and numerous other apparently "McQueen-worthy" companies and products.

Steve "Who knew you could make so much money being dead?" McQueen will reprise his top-billed supporting actor role in The Great Escape with a no-other-stars-to-be-found starring role in Gotham Games' The Great Escape for Xbox, PlayStation2, GameCube and Windows PC this summer.