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It slices! It dices! It’s cartoon carnage unleashed on the desktop, and not a moment too soon. Just days after another high-school shooting spree lit up the evening headlines, along comes Blade of Darkness, a hack-and-slash action title that gets back to the basics, before BFG-9000 lust can consume us all.

Runaway is fiendishly clever. It is far removed from the old text-based ADVENT days, yet in some ways it is the embodiment of how the genre matured yet stayed true to its roots. The GUI stays out of the way and you are on your own, to point and click, then stare and think. The graphics are superb in places, but the bottom line is still game play, and genre fans will be right at home.