Had this back in the day and took a while to remember all of this. The stuff that comes out of the characters mouths in reaction to something your character says or does is very entertaining at times. If you owned this game previously and wanted to replay on a newer PC, then here it is. If you have never played it, it's worth trying out. Mechanics: the game is pretty much a puzzle type of game. You move the mouse pointer around and when it changes it means you can interact with the person/object. Clicking brings up a menu to select look, speak/mouth, grab/take, kick and you also can find items to use. There is also a "simple" battle system for bike to bike combat on Miner's Rd. Overall it's a simple game to learn and figure out. There are parts where you will need to do things in a sequence to get it to work right but you get to try until you get it right so not a terrible "oh you goofed so go way back to the begining and try again".
I actually had forgotten I owned this game until I had some free time as was downloading another game and noticed this sitting in my library. Decided to give it a spin. Was hooked with the story but as others mentioned, the running about th island can be a bit of a drag. You basically have conversation with other NPC's in the game and have your choices in comic sytle bubbles that float above your character for you to choose if you can read all choices and click the one you want fast enough. You find very little items and your item you get to "play" with is a radio to do variuos task with. That's not to say there are not other things to interact with (open doors, read signs, jump across streams, etc - but most things are simply finding the right dial setting on the radio). So I played through to the "ending" and then tried the "continue timeline" option to see what it does and it started over. But some option are not the same - I won't spoil it but it does make you think and that does introduce another level to the playing so I think in order to enjoy it you'll need to play a second "round". The most annoying controls are playing around with the radio trying to tune it just right - the games kind of sits there and waits for you to do so and I can't help but wonder what the heck is the point! There are times you need to move the mouse in a circular motion and just a right speed - I nearly burn a hole in my desk trying to get it to work initially because one of the scenes is terrbile and very laggy (easily the worse part of the game).
