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Well now, when you see the carnage on screen in this game, you'll see what
Dark Quest should have been like. Run em Over is a simple game that is only
intended to be a "small but addictive game without progressing. " , perhaps
in the manner of the classic arcade games, but without the occasional change
to a different level, and is somewhat successful. Starting the game treats
you to a nice and large image of someone that has just been plastered into
the ground by a vehicle, just to give you an idea of what to expect. . . 

. . . And that would be, dead bodies, all over the ground, all over your
car, and, if you're good enough, all over the entire screen I imagine. The
graphics are simple, but how they are used is quite effective. Each body
becomes a bit of a mush, with the blood squirting out to random spots. If
your car is in motion when it is destroyed, it will leave a small trail of
debris behind it. Although simple, the sheer volume of the mayhem makes up
for it. The sound, is bleeps on the PC speaker. Better than nothing maybe =\. 

The gameplay is simple enough, what with the driving around the screen
running over people. The deviation in this game is that you have to rotate
your car to turn it, and then accelerate in the relative direction. A bit
like asteroids, but it deccelerates very quickly. You have "yourself"(the
human) standing idle at the top of the screen, while you control the car
that runs over everyone in the mob that thinks they can kill "you". There
is also a mine to deploy, albeit one at a time, and the effect is rather
small. The areas you navigate(There are two. One has "you" at the bottom
of the screen, and the other has "you" at the top), are very small,
which is fitting for the game. The enemies come in rather large numbers
as soon as the game starts and you have to react pretty quickly in order
to manage them consistently, while taking care to avoid running over
"yourself". If the human you dies, or your car is hit by a grenade or is
in the vicinity of an exploding mine(though your car won't trigger a mine
explosion), the game is over. Thankfully, the grenades must land and have
a brief delay before exploding and being capable of harming you, giving
you just enough notice to get out of the way.

As far as mini games go, this one does its job nicely. The task is simple
enough, there is definitely some skill involved, and it is challenging.
Check it out. I suck at it, and have barely cleared 100 =\ .