Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
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| Developer(s) |
Pendulo Studios (PC) Cyanide (NDS) 93 Games Studio (Wii) |
| Publisher(s) |
Focus Home Interactive FX Interactive |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Nintendo DS, Wii, iOS |
| Release |
Windows
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle (or Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle) is a point and click adventure game released by Pendulo Studios in 2006. It's a sequel to Runaway: A Road Adventure.
The French version of the game was the first available for purchase, followed shortly by the German version, both published in fall 2006. Other versions like the original Spanish version and the English localizations were kept on hold until 2007 due to publishing issues, most notably with its homeland, Spain, where a special collector's edition was released in order to please fans.
Runaway 2 was first released on Microsoft Windows and then subsequently ported to the Nintendo DS in 2007 and Wii in 2009. The sequel and third installment of the series is Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate and was released on November 26, 2009.
On October 17, 2013, French publisher and developer Bulkypix released Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle Part 1 for iOS (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad).[1]
Plot
Taking advantage of the 20 million million recovered at the expense of the Sandretti brothers on their previous adventure, Brian and Gina are on vacation in Hawaii. On an excursion of the couple in a small airplane, the driver of the gear makes a discomfort because of his advanced age. Brian forces Gina to put on a parachute and pushes her overboard as the plane flies over the island of Mala Island. Brian stays on the plane that lands in disaster in the jungle of the island. The player also sees an introduction that during his parachute descent, Gina is targeted from the island by a hypodermic rifle and falls asleep in a lake.
Brian regains consciousness on the plane. Otto, the late pilot, seems to have disappeared. Brian realizes that the plane crashed not far from the end of the jungle. After escaping from quicksand and a monkey blocking the passage, Brian manages to extricate himself from the forest and sees a military camp located below the island, around the lake where Gina fell. Certain that the military saw Gina fall and helped him, he goes to meet them. At the entrance to the camp, Brian meets General Kordsmeier. The latter is far from being warm: he refuses to give the reason for his presence in Mala Island, prohibits the access of the camp to Brian, and claims to have seen no one fall in parachute, what Brian refuses to believe.
The latter, convinced that the military detained Gina, decided to conduct the investigation. While browsing the island, he meets Lokelani, a former makeup artist who has become a bar waitress on the island's beach. Brian also meets two friends of Lokelani: Knife the surfer as well as Kai, a former surf champion who lost a leg because of a shark. Joshua, abducted by aliens in the previous opus and still as wacky as before, is also present on the spot. Brian manages to take the ascendant on a stupid soldier named Zachariah O'Connor, who confuses Brian with his leader and decides to execute all his orders. Thanks to O'Connor, Brian learns that a French scientist, pinion, must go to camp in a few hours. Brian sees the opportunity to penetrate it without arousing suspicion thanks to Lokelani's makeup talents. After several adventures to entertain Knife, help Kai, get help from Joshua and gain the confidence of Lokelani, Brian manages to infiltrate the camp under the appearance of Professor Pignon.
General Kordsmeier does not see the deceit and authorizes Brian to enter the camp. The latter is taken to a large hall in Tiki temple where an office is set up and where a huge statue sits. Brian realizes that Kordsmeier is watching him through a camera and finds himself forced to study the real gear's documents. These documents reveal that pinion works on the Ameba, a futuristic and complex means of transport. Brian then manages to deceive Kordsmeier's camera but still can't get out to look for Gina because of the military presence at the exit. Brian therefore inspects the AMEBA's prototype, activates it and understands its operation, allowing it to teleport to a place in the temple that has been unreachable. He discovered a room protected by dozens of soldiers and controlled by a woman named Tarantula, who had affection only for her spiders and two pistols. Brian learns that a man named John Doe would be imprisoned in this vast room and that Kordsmeier is an ally of Tarantula. Thanks to the AMEBA and the help of O'Connor who is there, Brian manages to reach the beach of Mala Island where he finds Joshua. In exchange for the help he has given him earlier, it is up to Brian to help Joshua on a quest that the aliens have entrusted to him. For that, they have to go to Alaska.
Joshua and Brian are going to meet Professor Simon. Arriving in front of the professor's Cabin in Alaska, Joshua no longer remembers the password because of berries he ate and which made him lose his memory. Looking for a solution by exploring the surroundings, Brian meets Ben Wazowski, a bear specialist, as well as Archibald, a man living with nature and Brian manages to gain confidence. Thanks to the partially involuntary help of the two men, Joshua regains his memory by eating salmon. The password allows them to enter Professor Simon. The latter demonstrates the existence of Trantoriens aliens to Brian, and explains that they are very intelligent beings, communicating by telepathy and capable of blowing up a planet if they wanted to. Without knowing it, Tarantula and his men arrived at the chalet to kill Brian and Joshua but escaped without Simon.
Brian wakes up on a yacht without knowing how he got there. By going to the bridge, he discovers that it is the personal Sushi boat. Robbie made swallow to Brian mushrooms that had erased his recent memories. Meanwhile, Sushi went to Palenque and found information on the Trantonite: This stone would have been last owned by a pirate named Malantùnez who had been shipwrecked. By doing research, Sushi managed to locate approximately the wreck and its yacht is heading towards the search area. With the help of Robbie, Saturn, Joshua and Camille, a young girl who won a contest to assist underwater explorer Dean Grassik (also on the yacht), Brian and Sushi set up a neutrino detector for locating Exactly the wreck. Brian dives for the Trantonite but, by forcing a door, the wreck collapses and Brian is stunned.
In his sleep, Brian dreams of the Adventures of Malentùnez and his shipwreck. Several characters that Brian knows in real life are present in the form of pirates or prisoners, such as Camille (prisoner), The Cockatoo of Lokelani (Pet of Malentùnez), or even the monkey of the jungle. In the skin of "Brushian", he finds the Trantonite hidden in a map of the globe. Brian finishes his beheaded dream by Malentùnez (which doesn't stop him from talking), and then wakes up on the Sushi yacht, after being rescued by Camille. Knowing now where the Trantonite is, he starts looking for it successfully. As the crew returned to Mala Island to give the Trantonite to the Trantoriens while hoping not to be discovered by Tarantula and Kordsmeier, Professor Simon, alive and well, joined them and announced they had a plan to transmit the Trantonite thanks to a sea turtle. The game ends with a cliffhanger, the gang prepares to return to Mala Island and rescue Gina.
Characters
- Brian Basco, the only player-controlled character, is a doctoral candidate in Physics at Berkeley. Brian broke out of his nerdy shell after going through so many adventures and meeting so many interesting characters in Runaway: A Road Adventure. He will stop at nothing to save the woman he never thought he would have, Gina.
- Gina Timmins is the stunningly attractive girl Brian almost ran over with his car and immediately fell in love with in Runaway 1. After all the help Brian gave her in the first Runaway, it's no surprise that they're now a couple on vacation together in lovely Hawaii.
- Sushi Douglas is a hip multi-millionaire computer hacker who helps Brian out whenever he gets into a jam that requires technical assistance. Brian has a high IQ, but Sushi has the technological know-how to get Brian and his beloved Gina out of harm's way.
- Lokelani is a hot and racy new character who spices things up while tending the bar on Luana Beach.
- Camille is a secondary character based upon a real-life French Runaway 2 contest winner.[2]
Reception
In late 2008, Pendulo Studios announced that Runaway 2 and its predecessor, Runaway: A Road Adventure, together had sold "nearly a million" copies.[3] By April 2009, the games had reached one million sales, of which 250,000 units derived from France.[4]
References
- ↑ Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle (iPhone/ iPad) - Absturz im Paradies Archived 2014-04-12 at the Wayback Machine., October 18, 2013
- ↑ "Camille". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- ↑ "Runaway «A Twist of Fate»: The First Official Screenshots" (Press release). Pendulo Studios. October 24, 2008. Archived from the original on October 27, 2008.
- ↑ Nini, Nourdine (April 23, 2009). "Runaway 3 : des images inédites". Gameblog. Archived from the original on July 15, 2018.