Blade Runner

I love the film and this game was made by people that also loved it. The atmosphere and style of this game is just perfect, so full of details that it is just insane. One of my favorite games of all time.

very good game, it's hard to believe that it was released in 1997, technologically games from that period today look poor.

Simply one of the best game ever, 'till now after 22 years is solid and very deep and funny to play more and more times

It’s not a bad game but there are frustrating issues: the combat is frustrating,specially aiming the gun. Another frustration is the lack of direction. The story is kind of confusing, I expected more. The music and atmosphere are excellent and the graphics are amazing for a game so old. Overall I enjoy the experience but it’s no mind-blowing.

Being a game from 1997, it's rather unfair to judge it by standards and perspective of 2022(!), but it's hard to completely ignore. I'll admit I did not play it back in the day, and actually got into the Blade Runner universe by the latest movie, which led me to watch the original movie as well (Which I loved!) - and in turn led me to check out the video game. The good news is that the game is honestly a great addition to the Blade Runner universe. It's not strictly based on the movie, but rather tells a side story, BUT it captured beautifully the movie's vibe - be it the soundtrack, the visual style of Blade Runner's futuristic take on the world, the characters and the writing, it's all very high quality, even up to this day - which is great. I was specifically impressed by the graphics and the backgrounds. While this is obviously a very old game and you should probably lower your expectations on that aspect, I personally still went ahead and gave the game a shot on my TV screen, and I think it actually looks beautiful even when scaled up on ScummVM. The character models are understandable rather ugly, but the entire environment and places you explore totally make up for it, in my opinion. The main problem is that the gameplay did not age well. This is a semi-traditional point&click, in the sense that there the (in)famous inventory puzzles are not really there. You do collect evidence, but to progress you usually just have to have to right item at the right time. This leaves us primarily focused on walking and talking to people. I think this is a good thing since it simplifies gameplay a bit. While Blade Runner is not a necessarily difficult game, it suffers like many games of that time&genre of the need to pixel hunt, which is never really fun in my opinion. You'll also have to save often because you CAN die and can, on rare occasions, reach a dead end. The gameplay has also nice gimmicks to it which are the opportunities to run Voigt Kumpf (excuse my spelling) test and use the "image enhancer" seen in the movie to find clues within images. These are actually great additions and are very well done, but still has the same problem with the main gameplay, which is, that at many times you won't actually have any idea what to look for. As I said, the game is not so hard, in the sense that the puzzles are rather logical and there aren't crazy and illogical puzzles. Still, pixel hunting and random events make it still very hard to progress on you on, from time to time. Last point to mention is that the game has a very impressive set of random events and multiple outcomes (for a game of the late nineties). This would have greatly increased replayability value considering you have the time and patience to play the game again and actually look for the content. Unfortunately, for reasons I mentioned above the game ends up to be more of a chore, in my opinion, and therefore this does not save the game, at least when looking at it from the perspective of years after. Gave it 7 since this is still a very high quality content on many other aspects.

Tried to love this game as a kid but it was just so confusing and non-intuitive that we just could not enjoy it. Great idea, bad execution.

Je l'ai fait y a pas mal de temps (et j'étais surpris qu'un jeu aussi vieux fonctionne impeccablement, même sans patch). Pas trop vilain vu son âge et une ambiance des plus sympathiques avec en prime une VF de très bonne facture. Cela étant, l'intrigue est maladroite et confuse et on ne sait pas trop où aller ni quoi faire pour débloquer le fil de l'histoire au bout d'un certain temps. Enigmes absconses, indices inutiles... si c'est pour finir le jeu comme un... jeu de piste avec une soluce devant le clavier, c'est que Westwood a échoué. Et disparu. On comprend mieux pourquoi ! encore une licence cinématographique prestigieuse malheureusement bâclée.