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Prodcut Description: [More Information ...] Games with ties to movies usually stink, but few adventure games can even begin to approach Blade Runner in terms of gameplay, production level, and respect for source material. You play the part of Blade Runner Ray McCoy, traveling throughout the Los Angeles of 2019 to gather clues and question suspects as you try to follow the threads of a series of interwoven crimes. Blade Runner is unusual in the amount of freedom it gives players. Theoretically it is your job as a Blade Runner to eliminate any Replicants you encounter in the course of your investigations. (For those of you unfamiliar with the movie, Replicants are synthetic humans banned from Earth due to their unpredictable nature). You can choose to sympathize with their cause, however, and all the choices you make in the game have a dynamic impact on the way things will turn out in one of the multiple endings. Blade Runner has some of the most impressive and dramatic visuals ever to grace a computer monitor. The title's low resolution is more than compensated for by the myriad animations on each screen, the stunning detail present in every image, and the atmospheric lighting effects. Still shots do not do this game justice. The game is also notable for its high-quality sounds and music. It is rare to find a game with voice acting that doesn't elicit chuckles, but the hours of voice recordings in Blade Runner are almost universally superb. The diverse characters speak in a variety of accents that rarely sound hokey, and the overall quality of sounds does much to make players feel like they are actively participating in a movie. No game is without some problems, and Blade Runner has its share. Puzzles sometimes devolve into hunt-the-pixel searches where you try for minutes to find the exact spot to put the mouse cursor so you can pick up an object. Some of the time-based events, like trying to outrun a bomb explosion, are just plain frustrating. However, if you can live with the pixel hunts and have the discipline to save often, prepare to enjoy one of the best adventure games ever produced. Just be aware that the R-rated language and violence make for a game that is strictly for adults. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: Stunning attention to detail in both graphics and audio Outstanding voice acting--especially for a computer game Captures the atmosphere and style of the movie with aplomb Cons: Puzzles are sometimes more cheap than challenging
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Vist and BR I played this game a long time ago and liked the environmentals. It is still a good looking game and held up fairly well. I am mainly writing to comment on its compatibility with Vista. It runs well if you use a trick, but the shooting range does not work anymore (even though it is more of a side task and unimportant for the game).
On Vista the compatibility modes do not work and they do not improve game play. If you try to run it in compatibility mode, it may stop working or still have problems (which makes me wonder why Windows has such a mode option if it rarely ever helps). Anyways, just after installing and loading the game might play well on Vista, but after you save once or perhaps right away, it will have problems displaying text and you might get a garbled picture. To solve the problem I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Delete and when you get the Vista menu screen, press Cancel -- the game will work perfectly (except the shooting range still doesn't work, but perhaps you could look on Google for a fix such as adjusting your graphics settings). The only game that's better than the movie?? As a long time fan of the movie I was somewhat astonished when rewatching the movie after having solved the game, and discovered that the game was more emotional than the movie itself. I don't know how they achieved it. The dialogue in the movie is very compact, perhaps the game gives more room for dialogue and gives the replicants time to show their side of things. It gives anyway a very marked contrast to Steele. Although some of the animated movements are primitive by today's standards, other animations show a body language that's amazingly emotional.. - The only small disappointment after rewatching the movie, was that I remembered the differences in the movie and the game to be larger - to span out the Blade Runner universe a bit more. - And with regards to spanning it out; perhaps it's time to make a sequel? What about something based on "The Edge of Human"? And with a consumer target group beyond male nerds below twenty.. Surprised I have to admit that I'm not much of a gamer, but I LOVE Blade Runner (the film). I bought this game 10 years after it was released (I just got it a couple of months ago). Man, was I surprised! Being an "old" game, I thought it might be cheesy and outdated, but was I ever wrong!
This game captures the very ESSENCE of Blade Runner. The scenery is stupendous, the story is incredible (much closer and faithful to the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" than the movie itself was!)and the music was (almost) a direct copy of the original soundtrack (which, IMHO, was at least 50% resposnsible for giving the film & the game its glorious, dark, moody, and evocative atmosphere).
The ONLY critique I have is that the characters themselves appeared blurry and sluggish (except for the cut-scenes). Oh, well. What can you expect from a video game that is 10 years old?
Despite that, Blade Runner is an excellent mystery/adventure game. The wonderful thing about it is that you can play it 10 times in a row and you'll never play the same game twice (there are multiple endings that depend on what your character does throughout the game)!
Fans of Blade Runner should have this game. Fans of mystery or adventure games should have this game. One word of caution, though. Once you get started, you may not be able to stop. It's addictive!
Amazing and ahead of its time. This game was and still is amazing. if your a fan of the movie and have always wished for a sequel this is the closest thing to it.(next to the sequel novels of course) Its an amzing story and keeps you quessing till the end. It also has like 3 different endings. Fan of the movie? Youll love this game!!! Has problems with Windows XP It is really a shame that this game was never updated for windows XP. You can run most of the features, but the practice shooting range no longer works and this is an important feature. You need to practice to do well in solving the puzzles. I wrote to them a while back but they showed no interest in providing a fix. I guess they made their money and don't care. |
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