Runaway: A Road Adventure is a point and click inventory based adventure game. You play Brian, an average guy and student who is on his way to California to complete his studies. Just as he is on his way, he decides to stop at a bookstore to pick up something. In the process he runs into a mysterious woman named Gina, who is being pursued by mafia hitmen. Gina desparately convinces Brian to help her and Brian reluctantly agrees to. From there they both end up on an adventure beyond their imaginations. Runaway plays identically to many other inventory based point and click adventure games. You collect items and interact with other characters through point and clicking (and right clicking to change the command icons). The graphics are of the cartoonish nature and of good quality. The voice acting I felt was good as well. Not the greatest I've heard, but none the less definitely not annoying. The game soundtrack I thought was excellent (a very Euro-Style one for sure). The story line is interesting, if not maybe a little short. If there is one other fault about the game, it is the sometimes rather highly abstract puzzles. Although such seems to be a common trait of traditional old-skool style adventure games. Also once the game is completed, there is very little reason to replay it afterwards (other then to just enjoy the story). Another thing common in this genre. All in all, I found Runaway: A Road Adventure to be an entertaining adventure game. While the puzzles were sometimes rather difficult and required some hints to get me through certain portions of the game, the storyline was good enough to keep my interest there. If you are an adventure game fan as I am, then I do recommend that you give Runaway a try.
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