Blade Runner

I played this game, back in the days. I also replay it, few weeks ago (YES, you can still pay your original copy on windows 10 ... it's a little bit tricky but you can). that's why buying from GOG is great opportunity to play this game without any technical problem ... I'm must also say that I'm a big fan of the movie (ans less about the sequel...). You won't play with the heroes from the movies here, but you will hear about them, indirectly. You will get many different endings. The interaction is most of the time limited (approach people, speak, shoot, etc.) The technical aspect was really "ahead of its time", but... more than 20 years later, it's very blurry. it's sometimes problematic, especially during the research sequences (you are a cop and you must find some evidences in order to continue your investigation). The pro gamers of adventure games will know by heart what I'm referring to : you need to find evidences, on a pixel base. If you have a blurry image (the game looks like someone "zoomed" the picture... ) . this is the "price to pay" when you choose to use the voxel technology in your game... If you read me up to this point you can think I don't like this game at all... but on contrary ! With this game, you can feel the '"ambiance" of the movie. You will find new musics composition (made by Frank Klepacki) but Vangeli's partition is there too. (Too bad GOG didn't get also the CD music from Frank Klepacki... ) You can feel that you are a blade runner in cyberpunk futuristic world, just like in the movie! For me, this game is an interesting experience because it started the changing of adventure games. Between FMV games from this era ( with basic actions like "interact, watch a movie , interact watch another movie"..) and the traditional adventure games (like Atlantis , full 3D but most of time an empty background with no NPC to interact...), you have Blade runner !

This game is a masterpiece. Before the concept of a game company consulting directors, set designers, prop masters, and art directors for the films they were adapting became standard practice - there was Westwood Studios’s Blade Runner. They went to the source material: sketch books of sets and characters by the creators of the film - they even built their prerendered 3D game sets out of “junk” assets just like the prop masters and set designers did for the film. The end result is art worthy of the Blade Runner title in every way. The story is fantastic, the pace is methodical with moments of intense suspense and action, the characters are mysterious, making you suspect everyone, and the moral grey area is exactly on brand with the film. I can’t recommend this game enough. Please do yourself a favor and give it a play through.

Instabuy!!!.. Just do it. Seriously though, are you a Replicant or a Bladerunner. Track 45 right and buy it..

I was 10 years old when this game was released and when I played it back then it was something magical. As I was a fan of the original Blade Runner movie, as well as multiple other cult classic sci-fis. Even though I played it merely because of how cool it was, and not because of how good I was - I never finished the game back then, always got as far as the equivalent to the 3rd level, but now that I am 31 I can finally play, and complete, my childhood game reliving my nostalgic experience. It's pretty crazy I have a top of the line PC, but I still always go back to the 2D games I use to play as a kid, some things never change. Worth every penny if you like detective stories, multiple endings, and a good story.

It arrive a month late! (joke) This game is amazing, one of the best movie to videogame adaptations ever. It expands the lore and the universe of the original film and it is a product of love. Also it has a lot of replayability with so many different endings and paths. They even experimented with the moods of the main character and how it affects the outcomes of the conversation a decade before games like Mass Effect would try. Thank you GOG for finally getting this!