City Of Heroes: Runaway: A Road Adventure Review

By Carla Harker, gamespy.com

It's pretty much a given that all of the really great adventure games come out of Europe. But since almost all of today's adventure games come out of Europe, it also means some not-so-great titles are released there, too. Such is the case of Runaway -- A Road Adventure by Spanish developers Pendulo Studios and published in the U.S. by Tri Synergy. It's not a bad game at all; in fact, many aspects of the story and puzzles are very well done. Some suspect, however, that game design decisions and unlikable main characters keep it from the realm of the truly great.

Your main character is Brian Basco, a recent graduate on his way from New York to California to start his doctoral studies at UC Berkeley. While running some last-minute errands, a beautiful singer named Gina runs in front of his car while trying to escape a pair of mafia goons. Brian, who apparently hasn't had a girlfriend in a very long time, falls for her immediately and gets suckered into Gina's predicament. And so begin the adventures that take him across the country as they try to find out why the mafia wants the crucifix Gina's father gave her before he died.

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