Runaway: A Road Adventure
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| Studio | Péndulo Studios | ||
| Publisher | Dtp entertainment | ||
| Senior Developer | Ramón Hernáez, Rafael Latiegui, Felipe Gómez Pinilla | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 July 6, 2001 November 2002 May 26, 2003 August 28, 2003 October 24, 2003   
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| platform | iOS , Windows | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Keyboard & mouse | ||
| medium | CD-ROM , DVD-ROM , download | ||
| language | German English French | ||
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Runaway: A Road Adventure is a classic point-and-click adventure from the Spanish development studio Péndulo Studios from 2001. The sequel Runaway 2 - The Dream of the Turtle was released at the end of 2006, Part 3 with the title Runaway: A Twist of Fate appeared in 2009.
action
The slightly conservative New York physicist Brian Basco is on his way to Berkeley to take up a doctoral position there. On a trip to the library, he runs into a young woman named Gina Timmins. He immediately takes her to the nearest hospital, where she tells him that in the back room of a nightclub she had to watch her father, shortly after he bequeathed her a strange crucifix , of the brutal killers of the Mafia brothers "Sandretti" during one Was killed during interrogation. Brian is unsure whether to believe her story, but when he and Gina narrowly avoid an attack by one of the killers who want to get the murder witness out of the way, he is convinced. Brian and Gina escape the hospital and then decide to see Brian's good friend Clive, who works as an anthropologist in a museum in Chicago . There they want to find out what kind of secrets the crucifix holds that Gina's father bequeathed to her shortly before his death.
Once at the museum, Clive takes Gina on a tour of the museum while Brian is supposed to uncover the secrets of the crucifix. He makes the acquaintance of the unfriendly doctor Susan Olivaw and the cleaning lady Willy and finally manages to restore the crucifix. He finds out that it comes from the Hopi Indians, an ancient Indian tribe in the western United States . At this moment the killers show up, kill Willy and Clive and kidnap Gina and Brian in a helicopter.
Brian comes to in a shed. Through a crack in the door he can see Gina in the next room, who is threatened by the killers. Brian escapes from the shed and suddenly finds himself in a huge desert landscape, where he meets three transvestites who have fallen by the wayside with their tour bus. He befriends them and devises a plan to distract the killers, free Gina and then escape by helicopter. The plan succeeds and the transvestites fly Gina and Brian to a ravine where they hope to find the Hopi village in order to solve the mystery of the crucifix. There Gina falls into a shaft and Brian meets Wupuchim, the last Hopi chief, who tells him that the crucifix is actually a sacred key that opens the gates to the Hopi sanctuary.
Brian walks on and comes across an old western village, where he meets the inhabitants of Sushi, Saturn and Rutger. He also meets Joshua, a mad scientist who wants to contact aliens. Brian helps him and watches as Joshua is brought into space by the "Trantorians". Then, with the help of his new friends, he finds the Hopi village, where he also sees Gina again, who is injured. Brian goes to the sanctuary, where Wupuchim gives him a glass with a cut human finger.
Brian then returns to the western area with the injured Gina, where they meet a medium named Mama Dorita, who can communicate with the dead. Brian wants to speak to Gina's father and serves as a medium so that the dead can speak through him. Instead of calling her father, however, Gina talks to a certain Johnny. Then she reveals to Brian that she lied to him. That evening in the nightclub she didn’t meet her father, but the Indian Johnny, who made false deals with the Sandrettis and cheated them out of a considerable amount of money. Johnny gave her the crucifix and was then killed by the mafiosi, which Gina witnessed. Gina wants to reveal the secret to get to Johnny's millions before the killers find them to make a new life in safety.
After some initial anger, Brian decides to help her and finds out that Johnny had a trailer in the area. Brian looks for him, but has to flee from the killers who appear at that moment. A resident of the western town takes the two prisoners and throws them in jail. Through several trickery, in which Brian gets help from the computer hacker Sushi more than once, Brian manages to blacken the two killers on their boss and to find Johnny's money. The killers are believed to be traitors and, after they are released, shot by their superiors.
Brian and Gina steal Johnny's millions from a maximum security bank and start a new life without danger.
Game principle and technology
Runaway is a point-and-click adventure . From Sprites composite characters act before hand-drawn, some animated scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. The player can find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs in multiple choice dialogs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked.
Production notes
The game has two-dimensional background graphics and three-dimensional figures, represented using the cel shading technique, who act in it. This so-called point-and-click game is controlled with the mouse. The theme music for the game is the song Runaway by the band Liquor.
In 2004 an extended version of Runaway came out with the Special Edition . The DVD version has higher- resolution video sequences and bonus material (including outtakes and a making-of ), but otherwise does not differ from the gameplay of the first edition.
The sequel Runaway 2 - The Dream of the Turtle was released on November 24, 2006. The third part Runaway: A Twist of Fate was released on November 13, 2009.
synchronization
- Brian Basco - Christian Stark
- Gina Timmins - Jennifer Böttcher
- Sushi Douglas - Stephanie Kindermann
- "Saturn" - Sascha Draeger
- Mama Dorita - Beate Hasenau
reception
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Runaway received rather positive reviews. Metacritic aggregates 19 reviews to an average value of 74. The specialist magazine Adventure Treff praised the "well thought-out story", the graphics, the character drawing and the German synchronization of the game, but criticized logic errors and other weaknesses in the puzzle design.
Web links
- Official international website
- Runaway at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review on Adventure Treff. Retrieved July 1, 2015 .
- ^ A b Metacritic.com: Runaway: A Road Adventure. Retrieved January 1, 2018 .