Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure/YMMV


These things about Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Diddy's involvement in the game aged like fine milk when allegations of his extensive history of sex offenses came to light, culminating in his arrest and subsequent trial in 2025. To be fair, you do get to beat up his character to pulp anyway, so those looking to vent their rage at an alleged sex offender may come to this game and dish out their destruction at the now-disgraced rapper (or at least his in-game character).
    • Incidents of real-world violence between law enforcement and graffiti artists are sadly Truth in Television, in particular the death of Michael Stewart in the hands of white police officers which brought about the issue of police brutality and racism.
    • Speaking of law enforcement, the paramilitary CCK police force shown in the game is eerily reminiscent of the increasingly militarised police forces in America and their involvement in several high-profile incidents and riots. This trend of issuing materiel to police units became a cause celebre for anti-law enforcement activists to advocate the defunding if not outright abolition of police.
  • Porting Disaster: The Windows release had a litany of bugs and other issues, which would be carried over to the Steam re-release by Devolver Digital. It didn't help that the latter is merely the original game with a fan-made .ASI patch which fixed some of the game's issues and added partial widescreen support; the game's source code is presumed to be lost hence the decision to monkey-patch the retail release, a process which porting house General Arcade termed as "ghost porting".
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The game is gushing in 2000s-era street culture, complete with hip-hop music of the time and Product Placements for Nokia mobile phones and iPods.
  • Values Dissonance:
    • A number of tags and other artwork in the game are riddled with homophobic and ableist slurs which would not pass muster in this day and age. Cope2, one of the graf artists featured in the game, gained infamy for his well-documented history of offensive remarks towards individuals and groups online. Perhaps in a fit of peak irony and hypocrisy, Cope2 was commissioned to paint an LGBTQ+ pride mural in spite of his history of homophobia.
    • The character of White Mike may also appear to be rather iffy to some audiences especially with his use of the n-word, which is why the live-action adaptation recast him as a Black man with vitiligo instead.
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