Great game with some bone picking from egg shell problems.

The story is quite Hollywood: you're a student getting into Berkley(sp) but you run into a hot and attractive (in his opinion anyway) girl chased by the US Mafia, and you want to help her and thus embark on an road adventure.

Sounds dull and boring?? Wait till you see the graphics, wait till you hear the voice acting, wait till you actually play the game.

IT IS FUN.

The whole game has a sense of humour to it, esp when you compare it to the games out there on a market today; just how many ppl do you get to talk to in Mist? How warm are the scenes in both Longest Journey or Syberia? Although it's probably not half as funny as Leisure Suite Larry or the Monkey Island series, but then how can you compare Runaway with two classics???

Interesting (and sometimes crazy) characters, cool conversations, VERY nice art work (not sierra style though), logical puzzles.

I said logical. Truth is, sometimes you need common sense and some imagination to solve them. Unlike games like Longest Journey or Syberia, you need to actually use your brain to work your way thru. You need to be keen on observations, and have sharp thinking.

Pixal hunting is one major problem. Again, unlike TLJ, things are so well intergrated into the background that you have to move your mouse all over screen to find things you need. I almost gave up the game cuz of that.

Another problem is hints. I think the game can give more clues to lower the difficulty (i think it's a hard game). EG in descriptions they can tell more so that you as the player will tell yourself "ok this sounds like a clue, maybe i can use this item later"

Conversation wise... if they can distinguish new topics from old ones, that should help boosting player's moral. visual aides like not listing out the old topics or a change in colour on new topics discussed would help the game play tremendously.

I also had problems with the animations, maybe cuz of my old comp. I have to switch to lower resolutions for them to play just somewhat faster.

But all in all, these small problems didn't stop me from finishing the game; i spent a few hours last night and finished it. Once you're playing it you just don't want to stop i guess.

It'll worth at least a 4.5 if not for the problems i mentioned above; plus, i need to reserve 5s for Gabriel Knights, Quest for Glory and Monkey Island, don't I??