Blade Runner

Blade Runner is one gem of a point and click adventure game. It has so much ambition in its design and mechanics that are at work in the background that affect each character's AI and the course of the story, so that random factors as well as the player's actions (or inactions) and choices will determine the course of the story and the ending you'll get. There's love and soul in the core design of this game. There are even complex mechanics that come into play only once or twice just for the player to get a different result in a NPC's attitude if they select a different approach for behaving towards them. Soundtrack is excellent and fitting for the Blade Runner verse, so close to the Vangelis' original. Visuals are also quite dynamic and life-like, you can rarely tell if at all that there's a video loop going on for the scenery. Pro tip: The shooting range is way slower in the Easy mode. Also to get points, shoot enemies only after they have rotated to reveal if they're holding a weapon. Try not to get shot, not to allow enemies to flee, and of course not to shoot any innocents. There's no specific high score because some targets are randomized or "special" in some way but the highest score in a range run could be higher than 80, or even higher than 90.

High replayability and beautiful atmosphere. A must-have for any Blade Runner fan. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Still, there are 3 big issues I had with the game: 1) it's in real-time. As far as I can tell, this has no purpose than to make NPCs temporarily absent from rooms for seemingly no reason at all and with no consequence. It serves as an unnecessary inconvenience, forcing you to exit and re-enter until the NPC arbitrarily appears again for no reason. I wasted plenty of time running into "dead ends" only for me to return to the same spot later and find out that someone just wasn't there and reappeared later. And with a map this large, searching other avenues can waste a lot of time. 2) It doesn't really explain how to use the Voight Kampff machine at all. Sure, I understood what it does, but completing these sections was a question of picking choices at random. Doesn't explain the calibration or anything, and I had to look it up. 3) Knowing how to pick the proper dialogue choices was extremely limiting with only 1 word provided to describe each choice. Sometimes my character would go off on a tangent unrelated to the choice I picked. Characters can close off entirely if you pick the wrong choice. Picking dialogue options was often just crossing your fingers and hoping your character didn't say the wrong thing, or that the NPC would still be receptive to dialogue. Minor gripes: - No subtitles - There's a .....questionable ending with an underage character. But I'd like to assume that, with its ambiguity, it's implying the least repulsive behavior possible. - There's an Act where you're running into danger at random. The action is clunky and unnecessary, and sometimes nonsensical. However, most of the shooting done at other parts of this game works great. - There's a room where the character can't run? Not sure if this is just a bug with porting the game or what, but it was just a minor annoyance to slowly walk through this room each time I encountered it.

First, a warning. This game is awfuly short, for today's standards. But, it's a great BR side story. HOWERVER, A NEW REMASTER HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. SO I SUGGEST YOU WAIT.

Even if i did not complete it yet, this is an experience ! Of course this game is showing its age. However, did it age like fine wine ? Absolutely As far as i went through the game, it is filled with plenty of good ideas, the scenario and game universe is brilliant. Speaking about game universe ... yeah you know it's blade runner ... Masterpiece of a universe indeed ^^ (see ya on the balcony gents, those who played it knows exactly which part of the game i'm talking about) On gameplay side, it's a story telling game but this one kind of lets you choose how you're going through it, even npcs are randomly assigned as replicants or humans (replayability : check). At the end of the day, awesome -immersive- game in a somwhat 'familiar' universe ... Would give it a loving it out of nothing, we're not giving games any mark here :D

Blade Runner was the first “adult” game I ever played. It was in early 1997 on an older friend’s PC - and I was instantly hooked! As an 11 years-old who came from SNES and Star Wars this was a revelation: realistic graphics, a dark sci-fi story, complex choices. I knew this was my kind of games from now on. Fast forward a few years to ca 2000: in a bookshop I stumbled upon a vanilla copy of the game. I got it for exactly 10 DM, rushed home, marveled at the 4(?) CDs it took to get it installed, and ran my first “full” playthrough. A couple more followed over the years. Although I haven’t touched the game in quite some time, it’s still on my bookshelf (one of the few games that survived my move to digital). A few years ago I read that Blade Runner might never get published in digital form, since the master CDs are supposedly gone, and IP rights very muddy. Imagine my surprise today when GOG notified me of this release. It was an instant buy of course! Now to the game: There are better reviews in this board, but let me just say that I consider this a masterpiece. One of the “games to play before you die”. It’s dense, atmospheric, chaotic, technologically innovative for its time — and a labor of love. You can feel how much passion the devs had when they worked on this game. Go buy this game, even if you start it up just once. It needs to be experienced, this is PC games canon!