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Remember that show Prison Break? Yeah, from like the mid-2000s or whatever. Anyway, Zootfly is making it into a video game. Today, the game’s publisher, Deep Silver, released a batch of screenshots and reiterated the plot as follows:

“The protagonist of the Prison Break game is Company agent Tom Paxton. He is sent to the Fox River State Penitentiary to find out why Michael Scofield (the hero of the TV series), a man without a previous criminal record, became a bank robber. The storyline runs parallel to the first season of Prison Break: Paxton encounters several characters from the series and experiences key events from his own perspective.”

But you see, we believe the screens are hinting at a far different plot — a plot that has to be exposed. Follow along as we guide you through the (totally unofficial — like, we made it up) blueprint for a Prison Break game …

Prison Break game screens unfold blueprint for escapism originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We know what the television show Prison Break looks like, but what about the video game adaptation of said show? Take a look-see.

If you look closely at this set of screenshots for Deep Silver and Koch Media‘s Prison Break game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, you will indeed see a prison. Delve further, and you might catch a glimpse of a man trying to break out of said prison. Looks like developer Zootfly completely nailed this one!

The first time someone snuck out of a real-life prison by stuffing themselves inside a cardboard box, we found it amusing. The second time, though, we have to wonder how this keeps happening. According to the Telegraph, French inmate Jean-Pierre Treiber constructed a cardboard box in the prisoner’s workshop at the Auxerre, Burgundy “high-security” prison at which he was awaiting trial. When no one was around last Tuesday morning, Treiber himself hopped in the box and awaited loading with “dozens” of other boxes, only hopping out of his concealment well after the truck had left the prison.

In 2004, Treiber was accused of murdering French actor Roland Giraud’s daughter, Geraldine, as well as her friend Katia Lherbier. Giraud calls the escape an “avowal” of Treiber’s guilt, while Treiber’s lawyer says it may be an indication of his client’s absence of faith in the justice system. Either way, one thing’s for sure: We either need fewer cardboard boxes in European prisons or more prison guards with suspiciously narrow vision cones.

[Via Kotaku]

French prisoner snakes past guards in cardboard box originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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