Keep an Eye on ENDS, a GTA-Inspired Sandbox RPG Set in London

Hopefully this ENDS better than Minds-Eye.

I’ve been wanting something like this for years, there just aren’t enough games set in the UK. It’s rough, but hopefully it’s at least playable when it eventually launches.

@get2sammyb YES!! I was going to say the same thing! The Getaway is a hidden gem.

I hope this succeeds.

We’re desperate for a remake or remaster of The Getaway, Black Monday is a classic. So this might be the best we can get.

I’ve always wanted a gritty/urban game set in the UK, especially in London with a ‘roadman’ type of vibe. Hopefully this has some potential which then prompts another developer to make a full scale game. The only ones that delivered were The Getaway 1 and 2, nothing since then has had the same type of setting. Watch Dogs Legion had potential but fell short in my opinion.

@nessisonett 100%, I’ve always wanted a gritty urban game with a UK setting in recent years. The Getaway 3 should have been it but God only knows what’s happened with that.

It’s giving minds eye 2.0

If only Sony didn't weirdly cancelled The Getaway 3 or Eight Days.

@Mr_Singh The dev video here is very interesting, seems to be a young team with a lot of passion so I reckon it’ll be rough and janky but with proper heart behind it. I love The Getaway’s world building but the actual gameplay is borderline unplayable at times, I’d kill for a remake still set in the same time period because London is just generally a very different place now and this game’s setting is far more realistic than going down the East End gangster Phil Mitchell route. The frustrating thing is that any remake of The Getaway would have to get rid of all the branded shops they mapped out through the satellite scans, I very much doubt they’d be allowed to do up shops looking like defunct companies.

Hopefully you get to fight phone thieves riding mopeds and electric scooters with an end of game big boss who turns out to be a corrupt mayor.

I'm here for Top Boy the game if that can be achieved.

I do hope they get some attention and maybe new investors so they have the time to do what is needed. Time is the important factor, clearly the passion is there. We obviously won't know the scope and scale of it and the quality of the script, but I like the setting and overall idea of it.

@nessisonett In agreement on your UK point. I just wish devs would have the confidence to set a open world crime caper in somewhere other than London. Cardiff, Birmingham or Glasgow would be great.

@Brundleflies21 You’d think that Rockstar being from Scotland, it would be a slam dunk to do a game based on the gang violence in Glasgow. It’s gotten a lot worse the last couple years too, with the two big families openly murdering each other. A couple buildings got torched near mine and they still bring up bloody Gerbil getting shot in the local Asda car park. There’s plenty material anyway.

@get2sammyb The Getaway is one of my all time favorite games. I wish that franchise would come back, but it’s a pipe dream.

Would've been cool for DMA Design/Rockstar North to have done a Glaswegian Ice Cream wars saga or 60s gangs 👍

Move it to Peckham and get the licence for Only Fools & Horses and I'm in.

This looks like the dogs bollocks mate!

As a sarf Londoner myself, am gonna keep my mincers on this one..

There's a reason the River Thames runs through London. If it walked it would get mugged!
Ends will only feel authentic if it contains escalators with people stood on the wrong side, and angry people raging at them 😂

This will more than likely launch near the end of the PS5 era/Early PS6 era

Rather it’s good or bad I’m sure someone will make a good video about this when it’s all done one way or another.

Judging from the video, they have a pretty decent groundwork laid out. Curious to see how the game turns out as development continues to roll on.

@nessisonett GTA: The Ice Cream Wars, fighting off the Sighthill Young Team, bashing neds. I'd be all over that like a rash

Wannabe devs flippin assets instead of burgers, not worth a second of anyone's time.

Looks promising.

The next UK located gameplay for me, however, will likely be the Fallout London mod in Fallout 4 VR.

London? those characters look like from New York lol I smell low sales.

Just know this is gonna suck lol

@nessisonett I never buy into the idea that if you don't set it in the US it won't sell. Rockstar could set GTA7 in Crianlarich with a game world that only stretched to the station at Rannoch and it'd sell millions. Set it in Birmingham with rival factions being led by a digitally accurate Stewart Lee, Lenry Henry, Noddy Holder and Armando Iannucci can be the Scottish kingpin who's behind it all.
Plus Britain is as ripe for satire as the US is.

Will keep an eye on it, hope it's not full of cringe, the games title is pretty cringey. Little scrotes use the word round here all the time, even though you know their mummies bought them their electric bikes and balaclavas I hate the word now. Live up north as well.

Well, they have the opportunity to feature behind-the-wheel driving cam on the streets of London where Watch Dogs Legion of all games didn't.

@dortek When was the last time you went to London? Or any big city in the UK? That’s exactly what people under 30 look like, especially the sort of people in the estates that this game is set in.

Yorkshire-based DLC...?

I would definitely get this. I'd love to play a game set in London. Even if it ain't that good, I would still buy it just to explore and drive around London. Which area is Pembridge Estate ?

Another one, wow, how many are we going to see? I bought the Getaway, but it's not like I'm big on it. I also have to start it. I more so bought it as a collector of what first party are out there then an open world of interest but I did enjoy NFS Carbon so who knows.

Maybe some older open worlds are more compelling in their pacing and content (I do and don't give slack to any older games as some can offer variety and quality and others are as boring as modern era just smaller scale so it really doesn't matter perspective of it's old, what they could do as I know what was possible back then and what their goals were) or as bland as modern ones being basic, empty and too focused on their locations and story then to offer good gameplay. Otherwise Susnet Overdrive, Gravity Rush and Infamous Second Son/First Light won't be beaten for preferred open worlds for gameplay excitement/variety.

What was that other one that was announced and I forget the name of that a few people covered, said it was alright or bad?

I mean if many can pull it off by all means but the personality, quality and also just approach the competition has?

Do they think they can have an audience really try these games if the ceiling ones have already hit of GTA, Mafia, Saints Row is dead, and any others that have a fair approach compared to the other open worlds doing their own thing?

But of course the more crime thriller/buddy cop/others angle.

Still another UK region setting is fair besides Watch Dogs Legion/Zombi U or GTA London or whichever Forza Horizon was set in the UK, or any other open worlds.

I am not into real world locations but I feel other places would be good, the problem is, relatability or already tried locations to move onto and audience appeal. I don't care for it, but people do.

I'd rather play PGR for it's city streets for good track layouts. I couldn't care less otherwise, fictional ones are more exciting, regardless of inspirations they have.

@CJD87 The Emmerdale Files.

Their heart seems to be in the right place, so really hope it works out well for them. Personally I think this is a pass for me… anytime I have to go into London these days I’m counting down the hours until I can get out again, so the idea of spending gaming time there as well fills my stomach with utter dread 😄

If you aint seen the tv show Brassic - its perfect for a GTA UK setting and could easily blend with "ENDS"/TopBoy themes (county lines)
Also, old Getaway style gangs are still around so theres plenty fresh material to pull from - look at any gun crime or drug crime news from Manchester in the past couple years

Drive-by moped acid attack incoming.

I have a hard time believing you can make a game like this with just £10,000 in funding.