Computer Games Online previews RUNE with the first part of their look ahead at this upcoming game of melee combat set in the heyday of the Viking warrior. Here's a quote that includes word from Human Head's Chris Rhinehart on their straightforward manner for handling puzzles:

"There are machines you're going to have to shut down [in particular on the dwarven level], but you're not going to have to do a bunch of tiny things to something that you don't know what it does in the first place." Some of the dwarven machines, for example, will be powered by goblins running on wheels, which means that you can slaughter the beast to shut down the machine.