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Sony's cinematic action/driving hybrid The Getaway hit only a few months after Rockstar dropped Grand Theft Auto: Vice City yet still managed to carve out a respectable place on the sales charts. History seems primed to repeat itself with The Getaway: Black Monday, another thoroughly British cops 'n' robbers romp. "I think the genre has gotten so much bigger," explains Monday producer Naresh Hirani. "The idea that you're just making another GTA clone has gone out the window: Everyone's doing different things, and it's not about competing but rather coexisting." It's true--although Monday, like GTA, offers plenty of car thievery, gunplay, underworld dealings, and wacky side …