Shotgun

With pump-action or semi-auto recoil operation, this shotgun takes out multiple enemies at once. Very popular as a police weapon and as a civilian weapon for self defence, the M3 packs massive firepower. The M3 shotgun can be found in both The Getaway and The Getaway: Black Monday. It is a fairly common weapon to find, but not as common as the AK47 or Glock 17. This is your basic shotgun, and it's called the M3. It is very powerful at a close range and is easily a one hit kill. However, it does have a slow fire rate and is not very effective at long range. It also runs out of ammo reasonably quickly, so this gun is pretty useless in a open area with multiple enemies coming at you. It is better when dealing with enemies close up in a crowded small space, such as a small warehouse.

When Mark encouters the shotgun he will pick it up, but if he walks into an AK47, he will always pick the AK over the shotgun, in Black Monday, this can be avoided by holding down L3 to avoid having Eddie trade it for an Assault Rifle/Submachine gun or replacing it with the Saiga.

A good tactic with the shotgun is to drop it when an enemy is at a fair distance away from you and take out the Glock 17. The enemy can be killed with the Glock from a far distance and then the player can pick up the shotgun again to deal with enemies close up. If an enemy shoots at you with a shotgun from close range, chances are you will die in one hit, if you're lucky then maybe two.

In the original, you only get full 1 reload of the Shotgun per pick-up and must drop your current shotgun and pick up a different shotgun to get more ammo, in Black Monday, the player can simply pick up another shotgun to get more spare shells.