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INTRODUCTION:
In near future... The world has slowly changed. And almost no one noticed. The media gradually changed each individual. Slowly and surely. Thanks to AI was media able to deliver content that led to a change of everybody’s mind. For the only one truth. People’s lives narrowed to work and watching the media. Nanotech vaccines with a global network controlled the mood. People resigned… Only one decided to run out of the system…

REVIEW:
This game is inspired by Vector for Android. The objective is to escape, and you must not get caught. There is constantly a guard chasing you. You have to run a certain distance on each level to get to a safe place, and you will always be running automatically. You and the computer player / guard are running at the same speed, but getting stuck in front of obstacles (because you did not press the correct button) will slow you down so you can get caught. And even worse – if you miss the ledges when jumping you will die immediately.

You only use 2 keys for playing (Q and A) or Kempston or Sinclair joystick:

Jump: Up
Climb over obstacles: Press Up right before obstacles
Climb: Hold down Up
Slide: Press Down

During your escape you come around many places like: inside houses, rooftops, construction yards, warehouses, train stations, water and ships, and many more places. The variation of the graphics is good.

It is a full color side scrolling game, and this has been done very fine. It has to run at a descent speed, not too fast and not too slow, it has to be possible to react in time. It runs at a fine speed so it is highly playable, and for a full color game the smoothness of the scrolling is great. It looks like it is seen from a distance at sunset.

The sprites and the animation of these are really impressive. They are very detailed with lots of different movements when running and jumping all over the screen. It takes some time to figure the controls out 100% but when you do, it is a very good and simple control system.

This is a great and very nice programmed game, you really do your best, but then you see the computer player closing in to you… Quite intense gameplay! Many levels have several different routes, and it is off course best to find the shortest and fastest!

There are 9 levels and the game has Easy, Medium and Hard mode. You unlock the modes by completing the game. When Hard mode is completed the game loops to Easy mode again, and this is where this walkthrough ends. You have infinite lives so you can try as much as you like to complete the levels. If you have AY sound interface for your 48k or a 128k machine there will be a nice AY soundtrack.

Easy mode: 01:09
Medium mode: 09:24
Hard mode: 17:43

Extremely well made and a very addictive game, simple to get into and you can play for 5 minutes or an hour, and nice to see people bringing something new into the Spectrum scene. The same author has also recently made the colorful shoot'em up "Space Journey" (See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5cK_6T31k)

The game was made by Roman Cikryt in 2020.

Rating = 93%

Download here: https://cs.speccy.cz/games/Run.zip