Runaway 3: A Twist of Fate

Runaway: A Twist of Fate
Developer(s)	Pendulo Studios
Publisher(s)	Focus Home Interactive
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS
Release	Microsoft Windows EU: November 26, 2009 SP: March 25, 2010 NA: May 18, 2010 CIS: July 22, 2010 Nintendo DS EU: May 17, 2010 NA: June 29, 2010
Genre(s)	Graphic adventure
Mode(s)	Single player

Runaway: A Twist of Fate is a point-and-click graphical adventure. It is a game developed by Pendulo Studios and the sequel of Runaway 2: The Dream of The Turtle, as well as the third and final chapter in the Runaway series.

The game has a 2D appearance, however only the backgrounds are in true 2D because the characters are rendered in 3D using cel-shaded animation.

Just like the second entry in the series, the English, the French and German versions of the game were the first available for purchase, all three of them published on November 26, 2009. The original Spanish version was subsequently published in its homeland, Spain, on March 25, 2010, featuring an exclusive special collector's edition to mollify fans annoyed by the delay, as with Runaway 2.^[1]

Plot

The game begins in the cemetery where Brian's funeral is celebrated, Gina devastated by her loss. After the funeral is over, Gina receives a message from Brian, who says he was trapped in the grave and asks him to get out, also orders him not to leave the cemetery because there are two gangsters waiting for him to kill him. Gina, with the help of the medium Agatha, of the responsible Luane, and his strategies, succeeds in releasing him not from the grave, but from an underground point of a crypt close to it. Within the tomb it turns out that there is actually Brian's friend, Gabbo. The two walk out of the cemetery and escape from the two gangsters who have been watching the girl for a long time.

After their escape, they go to a bar, and Gabbo tells Gina of Brian's difficult life in the asylum, and a patient from the place named Kurgan made him suffer. The chapter begins as a flashback in the middle part of his story: Gabbo, who was in the asylum, tells Brian of his flight plan to let him escape, but Kurgan feels everything and he will instead flee. Brian does not win for her, and with the help of other patients, doctors, including Dr. Palmer and other people in the asylum, succeeds in solving a part of the plan. The chapter ends when Brian arrives in the central venture of the asylum, and finds them dead. Without head and Brian mistakenly throws his head into an oven.

The next day, Gina and Gabbo go to a house nestled in the woods, meeting them with the doctors and psychologist Ian C. Bennett. The doctor explains to Gina that he did not want to arrest him, but Brian listened to a phone conversation in which he was accused of a crazy-named named Jakob Kurgan, thought he wanted to accuse him of murder. So he confirms that Brian is innocent but that is not enough. Bennett also explains that the house was Lieutenant and Colonel Jerome D. Chapman, the right arm of Kordsmeier, a witness that could have escaped Brian, who had been killed. The doctor claims that her was not a suicide but a murder committed by those who wanted to frame Brian. Gina will have to look in and out of Colonel's home, but also with Bennett's help first in and then by phone (as he goes to the sheriff to find his co-operation), clues. Gina finally finds out the truth and rebuilds all the murder with Dr. Bennett, coming to find out that the killer was Andrea Hickock, codename: Tarantula. Just on the climax, one of the two gangsters kills Bennett, but Gabbo hiding a burst of explosives under the wooden bridge, jumping to prevent them from pursuing them, and so they are able to escape again.

The chapter resumes from the last time Brian left pending. Brian returns from Gabbo, telling him that he and Kurgan have the same height and size, and that the only way to escape is to try to swap Kurgan's body for Brian, wiping his shoulders, cutting his nails, drawing it in Same point (the bottom) Brian's tattoo, exchange his medical file with Brian's in Dr. Bennett's study, and do not make the others suspicious about the disappearance of the head. But he must hurry, he only has until midnight. Brian, just finished, is surprised by Dr. Palmer, who injects an anesthetic Neuroshockine. Brian speaks after this problem with a patient named Mickey, who explains that his effects cause excitement leading the individual to violent attacks, and that the only way to heal is to apply strong electric shocks in the back of the neck . Brian for this task is helped by Gabbo. Everything is ready: Brian finally manages to escape the asylum.

Brian, who managed to escape, returns to New York and tries to infiltrate Dr. Bennett's house to try to find and recover his therapeutic sessions, but climbing the stairs is hit in the face by a stranger and suffuses. But right then Gina arrives with the judge of that trial, which shows in the doctor's house the film of Brian's therapeutic sessions. Brian, in that movie, tells all of her story at that time during the events on Mala Island. During the vision, the group is attacked by Dr. Palmer, who is actually Tarantula, and that those two gangsters are his tyranny: Wasabi and Fatzilla. She tries to blackmail the judge but in the meantime Gina, who had been caught, was able to get rid of and tried to launch a signal of aid by throwing a bucket of juice with a scarf called "Call the Police" but being discovered and caught again by Wasabi.

Fortunately before his capture, Gina succeeds in casting out the bucket that is overturned and awakens Brian, who tries to clarify the affair with the stranger, who turns out to be a film screenwriter named Tom Finnegan. Brian finds a story suitable for his new movie, that is, a part of his first adventure. The writer likes it so much that he wants to put it into practice with different names in the coming months. Brian, after talking to Tom, manages to enter the Bennett house through the roof of the building in front of him with a cut paw of the Golden Chicken statue, and then, coming in from the window, finds Gina. The two plan their final plan to trick Tarantula: Gina feels that a buyer for trantonite, a mafioso Italian named Furio, will arrive at 3 a.m. to deliver them 10$ million. Gina tells him to Brian, and he decides to play in advance, and finds a volunteer, (to disguise himself believing Furio) an ex-actor named Jonah. To do this, Brian gets a disguise and a script for Jonah written by Tom, fake money in some boxes and a gas mask for Gina. The plan eventually worked: Tarantula and his two gansters are arrested and the judge exonerated Brian. In the conclusion, the true Furio arrives delivering to Brian and Gina dressed up as Wasabi and Tarantula, respectively, the 10$ million dollars give them the fake trantonite, which will be handed over to the Sandretti but are discovered and managed to escape with the 10$ million.

Characters

Reception

In 2011, Adventure Gamers named Runaway 3 the 97th-best adventure game ever released.^[2]

References

External links

• Official web page