We have every game from the GOG.com catalog available to download for free! Free GOG PC game downloads by direct link. 777.80 KB setupbladerunner1.0(34711).exe. Blade Runner is an interesting mood piece, built upon some very detailed graphic work and an interesting premise - but somewhere along the production line, someone forgot to include a game. The events of Blade Runner, the game, take place in November 2019, precisely the time of Blade Runner, the film. Blade Runner is a faithful recreation of the cyberpunk classic movie of the same name. Those looking for a traditional inventory-based adventure will be disappointed with simplified gameplay that only requires a sharp eye and some reflexes, but anyone open-minded enough will enjoy a tremendously atmospheric and fast-paced game.
Thirty-five years after the release of the genre-defining cyberpunk classic, Blade Runner has finally returned to the big screen. If the mere existence of a Blade Runner sequel wasn’t surprising enough, even more shockingly, this massively belated successor was actually worth the lengthy wait. While Blade Runner 2049 director Dennis Villeneuve had some impossibly big shoes to fill, he managed to perfectly recapture the dystopian yet stylish atmosphere that made the original an instant classic.
Yet, while we loved every minute of Blade Runner 2049, all good things must come to an end. Leaving the darkened movie theatre, we couldn’t help but feel slightly empty – like we’d been left with a massive cyberpunk-shaped hole in our hearts. Thankfully, there are several video games to fill that hole.
With Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi epic birthing an entire genre, it’s no surprise that a fair share of video game developers have also taken inspiration from Blade Runner. Whether its subtle nods to the seminal movie in the likes of David Cage’s Heavy Rain or a more aesthetic homage to Deckard and co. like Supergiant Games’ Transistor, the influence of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece can be felt far and wide in the land of interactive entertainment.
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Despite its massive impact on gaming as a whole though, there are five releases that come closer to scratching that Blade Runner itch than any others. Without further ado, here are the games that will give you that cyberpunk fix that we know you desperately crave.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
If there was ever a series of video games that are clearly (and unashamedly) inspired by Blade Runner, its Deus Ex. Set in an all too familiar-feeling neon-soaked dystopian city, this tale of augmented humans sees man and machine clash over the role of ordinary people in an increasingly machine-driven world.
Taking the best bits of RPGs and shooters, this unique first person series leaves difficult moral dilemmas in the players hands, while giving them a slew of kick-ass augmented abilities to play around with. While Human Revolution is actually the third entry in the series, it’s not only (arguably) the best game in the franchise, but also the one that feels the most Blade Runner.
Set loose on a series of suitably bleak and seedy cyberpunk metropolis, as you take down thugs and try and stride the line between duty and what is right, there are few games that will make you feel as much like Deckard as Human Revolution.
Ruiner
As you may have already noticed, we’re big fans of Ruiner at Fandom. After joyously letting it kick our butts at Gamescom, we instantly fell in love with the game’s fast paced combat and eye-catching Akira meets Blade Runner aesthetic.
Unlike Deus Ex’s high brow decision making and stealth-based missions, Ruiner is a game that delights in delivering intense and uncompromising action. With each frame in the game oozing the kind of effortless neo-Tokyo sleeze that defined Deckard’s first outing, Ruiner is a giddy blend of lightning-fast battles and an intriguing cyber-crime narrative.
If you fancy inhabiting a world that feels like Blade Runner’s while simultaneously beating the crap out of demented cyberpunk gang members, Ruiner is just what the Deckard ordered.
The Last Night
If you’ve never heard of Odd Tale’s The Last Night, a quick glance at its debut trailer will instantly explain why this ambitious indie title turned its fair share of heads at E3. Sporting a gorgeous artstyle that sees pixel art layered in a three-dimensional space, this neon-lit cyberpunk adventure sees players trying to find their place in a world where AI has rendered most modern jobs obsolete.
Yet, while this may look like little more than a highly stylised side-scroller, developer tktk promises that The Last Night will actually play out more like a crime drama than a platformer. With in-game characters supposedly responding to the player’s actions, this curious-looking indie title looks to be an interesting and surprisingly complex take on the cyberpunk genre. Sadly though, this is the only game on our list that you can’t actually play today.
With the game not releasing until mid next year, curious gamers will have to wait a little longer to find out more about how this ambitious game really plays.
Unfortunately though, when it comes to The Last Night, it’s not all good news. Mere hours after gamers found themselves excitedly talking about this cool-looking new indie title, it was discovered that its creator had a bit of a nefarious past. With tweets dating back a few years earlier pledging allegiance to the misogynistic and toxic Gamergate movement, many gamers found their excitement quickly turn to disappointment. Thankfully, the game’s creator has been quick to apologise for his former views, revealing in a recent interview how his perspective on the world has changed since.
Murky politics aside, for those wanting their gaming experiences with a cyberpunk flavour, The Last Night looks to undoubtedly be the most Blade Runner-esque experience of 2018.
Nier Automata
Fourth on our list is this year’s wonderfully bizarre action-RPG, Nier Automata. While aesthetically, Platinum and Square Enix’s bold collaboration couldn’t be further from Blade Runner, the themes it deals with feel surprisingly familiar. Without a hint of neon in sight, this post apocalyptic tale sees a team of combat Androids tasked with reclaiming a barren and sand-filled Earth. With a mysterious force of invading robots conquering our home planet, it falls to our own Android assault force to save the day.
Yet, while this could have easily been a throwaway sci-fi themed action game, Nier Automata deals with some surprisingly heavy subject matter. Whether its questioning what really defines sentience or making the player reassess what they know about the game in a few incredibly trippy and philosophical scenes, thematically, this game is Blade Runner’s intellectual equal.
Blade Runner
If you want a Blade Runner-esque video game, what better option is there than Blade Runner the video game? This cult classic 1997 adventure game was a technical marvel at the time, using both 3D rendering while actually reading the player’s actions in real time, as opposed to most other games in the 90s, which belatedly responded to what you did in the game world.
Developed by famed Command & Conquer studio, Westwood, this adventure sees you playing as Ray McCoy, an esteemed detective tasked with hunting down replicants in 2019’s neon-soaked version of Los Angeles. Playing like a choose-your-own adventure title, this twenty year-old game has aged surprisingly well, telling a gripping story in a world that feels satisfyingly like Blade Runner.
Unfortunately, getting your hands on a copy in 2017 might be a bit of an issue. With the developer losing the source code to the game when they moved office, there’s very little hope for an HD re-release. Instead, desperate fans have resorted to tracking down the four-disc boxed copy on Ebay, paying exorbitant fees to relive the classic.
If you are lucky enough to find one in your attic, however, this clever point and click is the closest thing you can get to watching a new Blade Runner movie.
There are far too few examples of excellent games based on movies. Despite the huge back catalogue of films at developers' disposal, we still find ourselves drowning in a sea of uninspired action titles, based on low-brow Hollywood blockbusters. But despite this unfortunate situation the game industry finds itself in, a few instances of a developer really utilising a license to the full do exist. Hence, I present exhibit A: Blade Runner.
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As a film, Blade Runner is a major cult classic. Despite being well over twenty years old, it still maintains a huge following thanks to a setting that is anything but dated. The movie's grim, neon-obsessed metropolis of 21st century Los Angeles serves as the perfect setting for all our pessimistic dreams of the future.
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Thankfully, Blade Runner the game doesn't at all attempt to merely mimic the events of the film. Being set to run concurrently with the movie, you find yourself in control of a different Blade Runner, Ray McCoy. With replicants (or 'skin jobs' as they're commonly referred to throughout the game) illegal on Earth, the Blade Runner's job is simple. Upon the detection of any trespassing replicant, orders are to shoot to kill. McCoy himself is a mere rookie. It's only due to a recent influx of replicant detections that you get the opportunity to investigate a particularly vicious case of animal murder, which acts as a leisurely introduction to the game's controls.
First impressions are good. They're very good indeed. Sharing the same environments as the film means that similar neon-lit backdrops are inflicted upon your eyes once more. It's only in places where you'd expect the setting to feel dark, dingy and lacking in colour that the feeling occurs. Despite the relative old age of the game (originally released way back in 1997), the graphical quality and background detail are quite impressive. Each character has an entirely unique design, and are all animated with extreme care and skill. However, they do naturally show their age with a hefty chunk of pixelation, especially when they're towards the front of the screen. The few cutscenes that occur not only do a terrific job of progressing the story and fleshing out characters, but also visually impress. Voice acting rarely drops below exceptional; nor does the music, which shows off just what can be done when you don't rely on the pop chart's flavour of the month. The Vangelis-inspired aural accompaniment, which occurs only at opportune moments, is a delight to hear.
One of Blade Runner's huge plus points is its ability to make you question your morals. Though the storyline is necessarily linear, choices offer themselves up at frequent intervals. Do you immediately shoot and kill a fleeing suspect who just may be a replicant? Or do you wait until you're able to administer the Voigt-Kampff test to the suspect before making a decision? Asking a sequence of low, medium, and high intensity questions, the suspect's answers and reactions to questions go a long way to producing an accurate overall response, and declaring whether that suspect is indeed a replicant or not.
The storyline twists and turns constantly, with the next big sweeping change that completely skews your views of the world only a few moments away. You'll no doubt come to suspect almost every character of being a replicant, with suspicion placed upon yourself in one particular instance. Certain choices you make throughout the title will change the way the game progresses, causing different conversation trees to appear, and certain characters to appear in different situations or disappear completely. It may not be entirely freeform, but the structure gives you enough leeway to try out most of the options you could ever wish to attempt.
One particular game design point -- one which usually feels too tacked on to have any worth, the multiple ending -- is worked exceptionally well here. Instead of merely a good and bad ending, there are quite a few in Blade Runner, with branching paths leading you there. Each of the numerous choices throughout the game has its own moral implications, and may even cause you to think a little differently in the future.
A lot has been made of the game's 'real-time' environment, though unfortunately this proves to be one of the game's biggest drawbacks. While the game itself is not timed, Westwood was keen to emphasise during development that Blade Runner would play out with characters moving around the game universe, and requiring you to perform 'replicant retirement' in real time. Being able to ready and fire your weapon at any moment, obviously there are instances of firefights that occur. However, far too frequently a character will immediately fire upon you, before you even get your bearings in your immediate surroundings, causing McCoy to die and forcing you to start again at your last save. Though it may be realistic, it's perhaps something that would have benefited from a slight tweak of the gameplay mechanics to ramp up the fun factor. How often these firefights occur entirely depends on your previous actions. As mentioned earlier, the choices you make impact the actions of characters further on in the game. However, for the majority of the game you'll progress at a leisurely pace, pointing and clicking your way to discovering clues with a context sensitive cursor that lets you control movement, examine objects, and initiate dialogue from your third-person perspective.
Once a piece of information that's sensitive to the case has been discovered, it'll automatically be added to your KIA (Knowledge Integration Assistant). A quick key press is all that's required to show all the information you've gathered, with information on every crime you're investigating and each suspect involved. Clues for each are even put into replicant and non-replicant categories, giving you hints towards that character's orientation. You can also upload the information stored on your KIA to the police headquarters' mainframe computer, updating the main database. Even clues that other Blade Runners have discovered will be added to your own personal information base, sometimes giving you a helpful hand if you're stuck with what to do next. At the headquarters, you'll also discover the Lab, run by Officer Dino Klein, who will analyse all evidence you've updated and provide you with detailed information. Plus you'll have access to an Esper (and another in your apartment), which allows you to examine photos, zoom in, and discover well hidden clues. Though difficult to use at first, you'll soon be zooming in on areas of interest and locating clues with ease.
Unfortunately, too little attention has been paid to including any kind of puzzles in your investigation, as there isn't much thought needed to progress through much of the game. Though searching out clues and information is a necessity, it's far too automated for its own good. Simply clicking on every available option on screen is usually enough to progress to the next area, leaving those with little idea on what's happening an easy way out. A few relevant puzzles could have easily increased the challenge and added an extra couple hours of play to a game whose four CDs will only take a single night or two to complete. However, it's to the designers' credit that you'll be particularly eager to start up once again straight away, in order to try out a different path.
Blade Runner does suffer from some unusual elements of gaming design, as the sometimes difficult action sequences and short term lifespan of the game may put some off. However, the glorious aesthetics, intriguing storyline, and well implemented controls all add to a title that not only Blade Runner movie fans will wish to experience, but also anyone at all interested in adventure games. Those who refuse to try due to those few faults are missing out on a sublime gaming experience. No, it might not be perfect. But who wants to replicate perfection?
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