Ever wanted to live the life of a graffiti artist, but can't afford the spray paint and legal costs? Check out this new title that lets you go on a virtual tagging spree.

You have to realize that you're going to step in a lot of controversy just by making a game about graffiti. You can do it without a huge amount of fuss, but it better be light hearted and cartoony, like Jet Grint/Set Radio back on the Dreamcast. When clothing designer Marc Ecko set out to making Getting Up though, he wanted to actually show the tagging subculture, as real and gritty as he could make it. The fact that an outsider was this vocal about eating everyone else's lunch made waves too, Ecko's frank speech at DICE got a ton of play. If he wanted buzz, he got it.

Buzz is good, but so is innovative game play. Does Getting Up deliver the goods?