Urban Runner

This game is a little bit different from the rest. It won the award for the 'best French game ever made' and although it's first-person (you see through the eyes of the hero) it plays exactly like a standard point-and-click adventure.

Story

This is a detective/murder/conspiracy-type game. You play a journalist. You arrange to meet up with one of your contacts, but when you meet in the sauna, he's dead! In the first part of the game you have to run away from the contact's bodyguard. I won't reveal much of the story, but the main thing is that someone's trying to set you up as a murderer and you have to prove you're innocent. This will involve disarming alarms, sneaking into houses, changing identities and much, much more...

Opinion

This game is all video but the locations are well selected and the actors are quite good. The music's great, the story's brilliant and the puzzles are cunning; The only problem is that even though the puzzles can have you totally stuck, you'll solve them quickly if you set your mind to it and think about them logically. I completed it in two days even though it's on four CDs. But it was extremely exciting and fun while it lasted! What else to expect from Sierra?

Not the best game we've ever seen from Sierra, but it's still well worth buying.