History VideoGame / UrbanRunner

''Urban Runner: Lost in Town'' is a French computer game developed by Coktel Vision and produced by Creator/{{Sierra}} in the mid-1990s. The game is a movie adventure spanning four [=CD-ROMs=] controlled by a mouse, divided into Clue and Actions turns. The player character is Max Gardener (voiced by Brandon Massey), an American journalist in Paris, covering a story about a drug dealer shielded by an influential politician. To get the drug lord talking, the player offers him photographs, but when the player arrives he is dead, and the player is framed for the murder.

''Urban Runner: Lost in Town'' is a French computer game developed by Coktel Vision and produced by Sierra Entertainment in the mid-1990s. The game is a movie adventure spanning four [=CD-ROMs=] controlled by a mouse, divided into Clue and Actions turns. The player character is Max Gardener (voiced by Brandon Massey), an American journalist in Paris, covering a story about a drug dealer shielded by an influential politician. To get the drug lord talking, the player offers him photographs, but when the player arrives he is dead, and the player is framed for the murder.

* StopOrIWillShoot: Buffalo Bill shouts this after he sees Max at the start of the game. He tries to shoot him anyway.

* BeverageSpill: Adda invokes this in order to get van Dalle's coat.

** Assuming Max isn't an UnreliableNarrator, D.D. is found by him lying in a pool of his own blood that we clearly see after trying to escort Adda yet he accompanies Max at the end of the game. This is handwaved by D.D. wearing a bulletproof vest but that doesn't explain the pool of blood.

* UnreliableNarrator: Max is theorized to be one since we don't get to see the entirety of the cutscenes he's describing.

* Anti-Villain:

* {{Frameup}}: Max is framed for killing Marcos at the beginning of the game, presumably by the BigBad. [[spoiler:Later, it turns out it was Adda.]]

* {{Frameup}}: Max is framed for killing Marcos at the beginning of the game by the BigBad.

* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: Max, who is framed for murder and has to prove his innocence, goes on to actually commit theft, setting fires at a hotel, trespassing and eventually murdering Dr Dramish's bodyguard through poisoning, yet does not have to pay for these crimes.

* TakeYourTime: As long as there's no time limit, you can take as long as you want to click on an object or look through your inventory, even if you're in a room filled with DeadlyGas.

* AdvertisedExtra: Buffalo Bill appears on the cover of the game, despite only playing a part in the opening before not appearing in the rest of the game.

* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: Max, who is framed for murder and has to prove his innocence, goes on to actually commit theft, setting fires at a hotel, trespassing and eventually murdering Dr Dramish's bodyguard through posioning, yet does not have to pay for these crimes.

Despite the serious premise, the story gradually becomes sillier as it goes on.

* MrExposition: Max's narration in the dug is included to explain the plot and what the characters are doing.

''Urban Runner'' is a French computer game developed by Coktel Vision and produced by Sierra Entertainment in the mid-1990s. The game is a movie adventure spanning four [=CD-ROMs=] controlled by a mouse, divided into Clue and Actions turns. The player character is Max Gardener (voiced by Brandon Massey), an American journalist in Paris, covering a story about a drug dealer shielded by an influential politician. To get the drug lord talking, the player offers him photographs, but when the player arrives he is dead, and the player is framed for the murder.

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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Adda uses a laser pointer to incapacitate Eraser before he shoots her. It even knocks him back against wall before he collapses.

* MoonLogicPuzzle: The last puzzle will be near impossible to solve if you did't know the last two digits of the code [[spoiler: that weren't given on the microfilm. The hint is Dr. Dramish drawing an X on the floor before she dies.]]

* MoonLogicPuzzle: The last puzzle will be near impossible to solve if you did't know the last two digits of the code

* BeautyMark: Adda has one.

* PlotHole: Pops up if you choose to have Max revisit the hotel first instead of Adda going to the post office. Max manages to knock out Inspector Van Dalle and stuff him in his trunk at the end of his sequence but once Adda's starts, Van Dalle is alright and casually talking to Freddy.

* MsFanservice: Adda. She even wears a SpyCatsuit at one point.

* PixelHunt: At some part, you have to look around Dr. Dramish's front yard for his security system. The problem is that most of the picture is blurred and you only have a tiny field to focus on to find security cameras and a magpie that you can easily confuse with the trees surrounding them.

* PoliceAreUseless