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| PLATFORM: | Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 2000 |
| AGE GROUP: | 12 years and up |
| CATEGORY: | Video Games |
| MANUFACTURER: | Pendulo |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, 2D and 3D action adventure game with animation-based style, Approximately 100 settings and 30 interactive characters, High-quality stereo sound, an original soundtrack with over 24 songs, The highest graphic resolution ever used in an adventure game, For 1 player |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| MPN: | RUNAWAY |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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| UPC: | 699030111680 |
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Customer Reviews of Runaway: A Road Adventure
Time Warp This is a great game in the way "Amerzone" was; for the time it was released, it had some pretty righteous effects, animation, and music. It's still impressive, and extremely clever! <
>As a fan of the "walk around, find things, use things" games, I am completely in love with this game's style! Think "Monkey Island" as a mystery/action/satire. (Love the reference to "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"!!!) <
>I'm actually still playing, but am only slow because of time limitations. Hyper-gamers will blast through this, but it runs at or slightly above my speed, which I can appreciate. Great game, and worth the time for gamers like me!
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This game is such a disappointment. I was so looking forward to another adventure game, and had heard mixed reviews about this one. But I thought, some of my favorite games weren't exactly critical darlings (I admit it, I liked The Dig, so shoot me). Unfortunately, I should have listened to the negative reviews. This is a pretty big lemon. The only bright spot is maybe the graphics. The graphics are beautiful, I'll give it that (hence a slight improvement in the rating). But the story is lame, many of the puzzles are illogical and stupid, the humor falls incredibly flat (maybe that's due to the fact that the original version was in Spanish), there is pixelhunting galore, and it's exceptionally boring.
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>Perhaps if the game took itself less seriously (a la Monkey Island), the puzzles would have seemed less out of place and silly (SPOILER ALERT: lipstick bullets, anyone? melting peanuts?). The characters are rarely charming and interesting, even the embarrassingly unfunny Pricilla Queen of the Desert knockoff characters. Props to the designers for including some diversity in the game, but I've met drag queens, and I've yet to meet one quite so cringe-worthy and witless. If you go ahead and purchase this game, expect to roll your eyes at the many lame stabs at humor in this largely (intentionally) humorless game.
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>In short: save your money and don't buy this game or buy used (as cheap as you can possibly find) if you are still curious. Most adventure fans, I believe, will find this game to be a waste of time and money.
Runaway Ran With Starforce
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>Trisynergy did not ask me if they could install hidden drivers on my hard drive that are very difficult and stubborn to remove(that interfere with my own computer's drivers).
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>While I can not prove that Starforce games caused the damage to my computer, I have no evidence that it did not. The excuses and procalamations I recieved from another Starforce using company included and blamed my hardware configuration...after I informed them I had a 17" Toshiba Desktop Replacement Notebook with a P4 at 3.2Ghz and 1.5 GB RAM. It would be hard, for even me, to wreck the hardware configuration of my notebook.
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