The original Blade Runner game from 1997, it was, for a time, virtually impossible to find, but as of Tuesday available on the platform, GOG. It’s a platform, it took eight years to get the game to reconstruct it.
The game is told as a murder mystery, that is, parallel to the original 1982 film set. It is the player’s new character, Ray McCoy, a blade runner, the Los Angeles police department – that will hunt for ‘replicants’, a type of genetically engineered nepmensen. The game chose at random which of the characters is a ‘replicant’ and what is not, which gives the game a different ending.
the Blade Runner, made by Westwood studios, best known for the Command & Conquer series, and was particularly praised for the atmosphere of the game, which is very congruent with the mood of the film. After its release in 1997, 800,000 copies of the game sold. The game is still well-liked, The Sure.
even so, the game is hard to find. Until recently, it seemed that the opportunity to be a digital re-release is very small. The original source code of the game in 2003 was lost during a house move.
now, the GOG shall, on its own web site, which is a team of programmers, for eight years, has been working to get the game to reconstruct, by means of physical disk drives. They are made use of for a ScummVM program, which is used for the classic LucasArts adventure games have to reconstruct it. As of Tuesday, the game from the GOG download.
