It wasn't until December 2019 that Blade Runner appeared on GOG as the result of an eight-year reconstruction effort. Now the Nightdive Studios have announced a remaster of the cyberpunk adventure.
The Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition runs with the KEX engine of the Nightdive Studios, which is also used for the Turok and System Shock remasters from the same studio. The release is planned for the PC via Steam, the Playstation 4, the Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch.
Features of the new version:
- Updated character models
- Better animations and cutscenes
- Widescreen resolution support
- Keyboard and controller customization
What distinguishes Blade Runner?
The adventure tells a story that takes place parallel to the film of the same name with Harrison Ford from 1982 and is partly overlaps with the events from the template. You take on the role of Blade Runner Ray McCoy, who has to hunt a group of replicants.
He often does this moral decisions posed. At some points in the game, you can use a test to find out whether your counterpart is a human or a replicant. How you proceed with this information is up to you.
There are two major peculiarities
- The game is shuffled with every start. You can never be sure which of the characters is a replicant. Due to this fact and the great freedom of choice, there are a total of 13 possible ends.
- Instead of waiting for the player's input, the world lives. Just like you, the NPCs try to achieve certain goals. This gives you, for example, hints for each game run at different times, because other blade runners do not always find their information on the same point in the game.
There is no release date yet. However, the game is supposed to will appear in 2020. The team has also not yet announced a prize.
