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I don't know if it's a classic - only time can tell if Runaway deserves a place alongside the timeless - but this is the one of the most balanced and enjoyable adventures of these last years.
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90In a day and age where storyline is always key, Runaway: A Road Adventure delivers a golden gameplay experience.
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There's no way around it: Runaway is an instant classic, and an absolute must-own for all adventure game fans.
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87Filled with crazy characters from zany drag queens to menacing mafia men, the story line is definitely fun and entertaining.
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Runaway is the best adventure game out right now, and my early nominee of the best adventure game this year.
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85If you are a fan of adventure games and only want to buy one game this year, I would certainly suggest Runaway: A Road Adventure.
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The score reflects more the quality of the engine rather than the gameplay, but I liked the game well enough, and there is such a dearth of other adventures out there, that it’s a game worth owning if you enjoy the genre.
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80Appealing, entertaining and with high production values, Runaway: A Road Adventure is a successful game that you will not be able to resist.
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80The art work is expressive, full of life and it does wonders for the in-game atmosphere, and the music is just as good.
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80On the visual front, everything about Runaway: A Road Adventure screams style. Rather than going with pre-rendered backdrops and stiff CG animated characters, Runaway instead gives us beautifully detailed cartoon landscapes populated with very animated, and believable 2D and 3D characters.
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80Runaway is a light-hearted romp with some genuinely humorous moments. My biggest disappointment was that Gina had no real role other than to look appealing and need rescuing.
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Brings the adventure much needed color and style; but in the end it succumbs to the same faults as other games before it.
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75It has pretty much everything you'd want out of a solid adventure experience, like diverse settings, a good storyline, wacky characters, and lots of complex puzzles.
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The environments are lushly vivid, featuring top-notch hand-drawn art, and the puzzles can be maddeningly complex, so if you're looking for a solid adventure title, Runaway is the way to go. [Nov 2003, p.96]
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Great characters, decently designed puzzles, and nifty graphics. [Nov 2003, p.175]
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60A great-looking game, and can be very relaxing to play, but the illogical puzzles and sparse, uninteresting plot leave it feeling rather flat.
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51Some of the puzzle solutions...are frustratingly hint-free and unintuitive. [Holiday 2003, p.109]
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I don't know why we are subjected to an endless barrage of these kinds of games being fobbed off on us in some kind of misguided effort to turn back the hands of time, gaming-wise.
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The bimbo of graphic adventure games: both pretty and stupid... When the puzzle solutions aren't illogical, they're horrifically repetitive. [Dec 2003, p.129]