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Really enjoyable game with great graphics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics on this game are really wonderful--very pleasing to the eye with lots of fun detail, too. The game is fantastic! Puzzles are fun, the characters are interesting, and the plot keeps you interested.

I was looking for a new game that reminded me a bit of the games I've enjoyed, like Leisure Suit Larry. This game plays like LSL except it's rated PG instead of X! I've also enjoyed the Nancy Drew games, but "Runaway: A Road Adventure" is much more what I've been looking for in a game.

This is a great game! I highly recommend giving it a try!

TheFlashback

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: October 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

American dream came true! Brian got a lot of money along with a brainless chick and a brand new Ferrari. I always ask myself why people come up with such a cheesy Hollywood like plots? Runway...
Is it really adventure game? Hell no. Tired with a lot of boring conversations, linear walkthrough, completely non logical puzzles, and one more thing... blood. If I wanted to see people die I would have played freaking Doom. I simply do not understand. Look at success of Myst. Or Riven. Or Siberia. The games are logical, the puzzles are complicated but you do not have to brute forcing them, no killing. Fancy. I think 75% for the game to be successful is the "idea" that at the end comes down to the plot. The "Runway..." has completely lost in this competition. The graphics is very nice and professional, the sound is very cool too but the plot is just something that broke the whole thing. You give something to a person and then you are forced to leave the scene to come back immediately for things to "magically" work out. Dah... What is that "clicking every pixel on the screen" to finally get what you want. How logical to load a machine gun with freaking lip sticks... Anyway, I want to say thanks to all the developers that work for Pendulo Studios, they did an amazing job, it is unfortunate that the script was completely out of sync.

Enjoyable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you like an unrushed adventure games and time to watch short movies--this is the game. The graphics are fairly good and does have some humor at tmes. Good game support which I feel is important.

good old times

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game - it was fun and entertaining. Well, I play a lot of the new Adventure games and wasn't blown away by the graphics and puzzles but it is definitely fun to play. You have to sometimes search really hard for an item because it is very hard to see - or you have to try to pick up an item several times during the game until you need it. Brian is not carrying anything he doesn't need RIGHT NOW. If you like being entertained for a while with nice puzzles and Brian... this is a great game. I enjoyed it a lot.

Some flaws, but interesting.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I received this game for my birthday. I've got a beast of a computer at home, but I noticed that my maximum installation still skipped on the animation transitions (between the cutscenes). Isn't the point of installing it 100% to get smooth animation? However, despite 3 installation options, the "maximum" installed game still ran off of the CDs, which slowed down the framerate and transition between scenes, which is why the game would oddly pause between transitions. Considering that this game takes up so much space, I thought this choice was odd.

The characters were done rather well, in an interesting way: 3-D modeling to get a 2-D cellshaded effect. Sometimes it works, sometimes you wish they'd sticked to old-fashioned 2D modeling instead, since the look of the game is mostly 2D.

The thing I wish most about the game is that they would use the visual medium more for being visual, rather than just talking about something happening or something that already happened - Show it! Specifically, I'm talking about the prologue, some peoples' past, and most of the text/explanations that happen between the chapters. Also, some of the cut scenes were way too long - there was one near the end of the game -- my phone rang, and a couple of other things happened, and the cutscene was like - an hour long, if you include all conversations and cutscenes, with no way to pause it.

One last thing: I was really disappointed with the ending.

Not The Best, Not The Worst

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll play almost any adventure game, because there aren't so many of them around. I paid $20 for this and don't regret it, but I wish it was a little more fun. There really wasn't that much humor. Some puzzles were tedious, there was a lot of trying everything with everything else for no obvious reason, and a lot of going back to the same places over and over because there is now something there that wasn't there before. If you like middling adventure games with good graphics, this will keep you entertained for a few days.

Oh dear...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Quite simply... this game is utter drivel. Everything from the badly animated 3D characters, to the unengaging puzzles to the absurd dialogue makes this game a complete waste of time! Avoid it like the plague...

Terribly Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after reading other reviews saying that gameplay wasn't that great but still good. When I got the game a review on the outside compared it to the "Monkey Island" series and I thought, "this is great, I loved the monkey island games." I guess whoever made that comparison only took a brief look at the game. While the graphics are similar to the 3rd installment in the monkey island series, any other comparisons, except saying this is far inferior, are way off mark.
This is not an adventure game so much as it is an interactive movie. I'd say the cutscenes (which I couldn't figure out how to skip) made up more than 50% of the time I spent on this game. The puzzles were few in number and like others have mentioned, Brian refuses to put stuff in his inventory unless he really knows he needs it. On top of this, the voice acting was well below par and by the end I turned the subtitles on and my speakers off to get away from the whining of the main character.
If you're looking for a somewhat entertaining, short interactive movie this is it; if you're looking for a good adventure game, keep looking this isn't one.

yeah right

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is great.it's like the "broken sword" and i spent a lot of time to end it.go and take.the graphics are very good
and good made.yeah

Craptastic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: August 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

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.

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.

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