Blade Runner

Like in movie, this game is telling a story about a Blade Runner. A special police unit/man that tracks down and exterminates illegal replicants who arrive on Earth from Off-World. First thing which struck me like a lighting from the clear sky was visuals of this game. Although they are pre-rendered 3d backgrounds, they deliver the mood and this noir-like feeling which was present thorough the film right down to your PC screen. You can and will recognize many places that were in the original Blade Runner (1982) movie. The voice acting... well, it's just perfect. William Sanderson, an actor, who was J.F Sebastian in the Blade Runner movie, is one of the voice-actors of this game. A really valuable effort from Westwood to hire on of the originals. As is actually whole plot which gives you some kind of options of how the game ends and how other characters react to you. It is interesting to notice how this game takes everything from the original concept and adds couple of it's own ideas, which are, fully suitable for this kind of product. Joseph D. Kucan did a great job on this game (the man most of us gamers will recognize as "Kane" from the Command & Conquer game series (he also provided voice-acting for Crazylegs Larry)) when he wrote whole plot. As the game advances, a Blade Runner fan will be caught in it. Certain aspects of drama are also present in this game, which is, very rare in game industry overall.

I must recommend this to all those players out there who want a kinda once-in-a-lifetime gaming experience. And also, full recommendation goes to Blade Runner fans. Trust me, this is the game worth the Blade Runner license. The music, overall, is awesome. Thanks goes for Vangelis for their original score. In the last scene where everything is suddenly made clear to you... You will find out. This game is relatively old, made back in 1997 by Westwood Studios, but the age hasn't affected this one so much just yet. This is solely action/adventure game. With maybe a couple RPG elements in it. Kudos to Westwood for this. And no-thanks to EA for shutting down Westwood.

This is how games really should be made, back when gameplay was more about atmosphere and storyline and less about pushing your graphics card to the limits of its capability. Though the graphics are clumsy and dated by todays standards, in 1997 it was more than passable, (If you are going to whine about this games graphics go back and play Doom2 then get back to me)in fact the overall atmoshpere is incredibly well done and stays very true to the vision of the film. Dark, rainy, film noir-esquire confused hero detective in a trenchcoat with a glass of scotch? It has the whole deal, and I thought it looked as beautiful as it played. I've slung an old PC together and loaded this up for the nostalgia value more recently, and its still a great game. The soundtrack and voice acting especially make it stick out. Alongside Fallout this must rate as perhaps one of the greatest, most atmospheric adventure games of all time.

Excellent game, played it over and over until i was able to achieve every ending, the atmosphere of it was awesome, definitely a game to be careful of, it will suck you in and make you cry when you dog gets killed. I cried, but I was also a kid when I first played it, and was very attached to Maggie.

I would like to see a newer version. something that takes advantage of the newer 3d tech available today, but still has that same feeling you get from the original.

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I loved the film, and hoped the game would live up to it. I soon found it did, and very well I might add. You don't play Deckard, which was great because it means you aren't going to just re-create the movie. There are several different outcomes (endings) to the game all based on your actions within the environment. Gather clues and evidence, interrogate suspects and witnesses, follow and discover leads... all in the forever nocturnal and rainy world of Los Angeles 2019.

Blade Runner the game was done right in every single way. I can always tell a great game by the way it pulls me in and makes me feel like i'm really there. Blade Runner did this, I felt for the characters, I felt the ambiance, the textures.

For those that haven't played it, the storyline of the game runs alongside that actual film, and if you play the game and watch the film or the other way around you will see how well they have done this.

It is a perfect adventure game. And I agree with other comments on here, change the featured comment, it's the only negative one here so why feature it!?