Urban Runner (1996)
Urban Runner is a 1996 adventure video game made by Coktel Vision and Sierra On-Line.
A 1996 FMV adventure game from Coktel Vision, made with the full-motion video format that studios briefly embraced as cinema's answer to interactivity. You play a journalist who witnesses a murder and finds himself hunted through Paris while trying to piece together what he saw. The game leans into live-action footage over traditional animation, giving it a B-thriller aesthetic that is very much of its moment: breathless, slightly campy, and earnest about its genre trappings.
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What is Urban Runner about?
A 1996 FMV adventure game from Coktel Vision, made with the full-motion video format that studios briefly embraced as cinema's answer to interactivity. You play a journalist who witnesses a murder and finds himself hunted through Paris while trying to piece together what he saw. The game leans into live-action footage over traditional animation, giving it a B-thriller aesthetic that is very much of its moment: breathless, slightly campy, and earnest about its genre trappings.
When was Urban Runner released?
Urban Runner was released on 31 December 1996.
Who made Urban Runner?
Urban Runner was made by Coktel Vision and Sierra On-Line.
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A few thoughts on Urban Runner
Urban Runner is a narrow slice of a specific early-CD-ROM era and has no strong cross-media equivalents in the candidate set. Fans of 90s FMV games tend to be collectors drawn to the format itself.