The game that could have been a great game.

User Rating: 3.6 | Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle PC
I am a fan of the old adventures from Sierra and Lucasart. I had high expectations for this game but it all came crashing down with a vengeance.

First of all there isn't many games in this genre and there should be more, but i f they all come with this poor workmanship I can do without them.

This game should be played by a teenager between 12 and 15, if you are older than that like me you will get pretty annoyed by all corny dialog and story.

Ok, the game is about Brian and his girlfriend Gina that you *suprise* need to rescue. I will not actually go into the story any more since it is so thin anyway nothing more needs to be said. The environments and settings are the only good thing since they are stunning and also diverse. One thing though is that I on my computer run 1920x1200 on my 24" widescreen monitor. With this high resolution the game look a bit "low res", which brings down the graphics impression which is the only thing that keeps the game afloat. The sound also sounds like a boy band album which is not one of my favorite types of music. With all of this said this could have been a great game if they focused more on adding good story and dialog. The problem now is that you feel that everything is dragged out into a long and painful mess where you have to redo things all the time. This keeps you hanging around in the same place and going back to the same characters over and over. When doing this most animations keeps playing over and over which is very annoying. I found though that you can double-click the locations to jump directly to it which helped a bit. If they had added story as a mean to lengthen the game instead of having you do things that seams overly complex and involves to many things it could have turned out a lot better.

This game left me disappointed when it could have been a very good game but ended up with a bitter aftertaste, they did not even finish the story but at this point I don't think I care if they make a sequel or not. If you are not a teenager stay away from it.