Westwood Studios, the company that brought Real-Time to strategy games with Command & Conquer, brings Real-Time to adventure games with the science fiction classic, Blade Runner.
Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
Immerse yourself in the dark, gritty world of Los Angeles 2019, where you become both the hunter and the hunted.
sauron wrote on Jun 22, 2022, 18:28:fujiJuice wrote on Jun 22, 2022, 12:26:fujiJuice wrote on Jun 22, 2022, 12:12:
That's exciting.
Releases tomorrow but no price, is that because no-preorders?
$9.99 on the Switch. https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/blade-runner-enhanced-edition-switch/
Double exciting. Great price point.
I had the original but the graphics suuuucked even back then. I love the movies and love the Switch (and the Deck) and if this is any good it's a must-buy.
sauron wrote on Jun 22, 2022, 18:28:
I had the original but the graphics suuuucked even back then. I love the movies and love the Switch (and the Deck) and if this is any good it's a must-buy.
fujiJuice wrote on Jun 22, 2022, 12:26:fujiJuice wrote on Jun 22, 2022, 12:12:
That's exciting.
Releases tomorrow but no price, is that because no-preorders?
$9.99 on the Switch. https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/blade-runner-enhanced-edition-switch/
Double exciting. Great price point.
fujiJuice wrote on Jun 22, 2022, 12:12:
That's exciting.
Releases tomorrow but no price, is that because no-preorders?
Re-release[edit]
Speaking in 2015 regarding a possible re-release of the game via Steam or GOG.com, Louis Castle explained the source code and assets were lost when Westwood moved its studio from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, thus making a re-release or a HD remaster impossible. Even if the code was found, to restore almost a terabyte of assets, whether for new pre-rendered backdrops or full real-time 3D, would cost tens of millions of dollars, making a re-release as unlikely as a sequel.[37] The Blade Runner Partnership and Electronic Arts owned the rights to the game for many years by that point.[21]
However, the game finally made it to GOG.com on December 17, 2019, after an agreement with Alcon Interactive Group and the website, using ScummVM as detailed below.[2]
ScummVM[edit]
Several attempts were made to reverse engineer the game's engine. As it is technically complex with voxel graphics for the in-game actors, video backgrounds, and randomised paths, it took the ultimately successful project with combined efforts eight years to completion.[38] The new Blade Runner engine was included in the game engine collection ScummVM on 13 October 2016 and took another three years till it was ready for public testing on 16 June 2019[39] and was included in ScummVM version 2.1.0.