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Great game, and serves the purpose of a sequel.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Alright everyone, you can stop bothering Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott about a Blade Runner sequel. Look no further than your local software store. BR: The Game effectively recreates the world of L.A.- 2019, and, though you don't play as Rick Deckard, does include many of the movie's characters. The environment in which a player is immeresed is designed beautifully, and gives the same forlorn-city feel as the film. It's great that the humans/replicants aren't constant from game to game, providing multiple outcomes and new surprises. However, there are only four stars up there, not five. My reason is that this game is less of a detective adventure as walking around, talking, and picking things up. It doesn't require much deduction on the player's part. Despite that, Blade Runner is certainly worth it's price, and has great scenery, without needing graphics acceleration. Replicants are walking the streets... find them!

If not for the ending(s), it would be a 5 star game.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 18 / 23
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is really great, despite one or two "little" problems. The plot, the characters, the vision of the future... One of the few movie sequel-type games that uses its name to the fullest. Even if you haven't seen the movie, this game's well worth the $$ for anyone who likes a well-formed adventure story. This game claims to be real time, but it's not really (at least in the sense of The Last Express and other well-formed real time adventure games). Still, it's really fun, and you usually do things at your own pace. This makes this particular game more fun and enjoyable than its real time counterpart could ever be. I think the only major mistake this game has is that it's too darn hard to get any of the endings you haven't already seen. After you've seen one, you've probably seen all of the ones you can reasonably access without changing your playing habits way too much. And, some of the prerolled aspects of the game (i.e., who's a Replicant and who's not) are completely random (obviously, they're **prerolled**), and therefore you could get the same ending over and over and **over** again without knowing why. And, no, this is not an exaggeration. I've probably played the game five times, and I've only seen three of (supposedly) seven endings. One of these endings was so revolting I couldn't bear to watch it (not violence wise, more... plain old disgusting wise; you'll know it when you see it). All three of these endings were available through different paths the first time I played, so I just saved and saw them all the **first** stinking time. Anyway, I keep playing it again and again to see the other endings, and, frankly, it gets old.

To conclude, it's a good game, and, if you can bear playing it about a billion times, you can take advantage of all the annoyingly hard to get endings.

Blade Runner Best title of the year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Blade Runner is an awesome adventure game which tests your reflexes but mostly your brain. I can tell you now from experience though if you never watched the movie you will be a little lost. The rendered cinemas are the best I've seen. There is a shooting range in the police station that tests your reflexes. These targets are replecants as well as humans which you have to learn not to shoot. There are sleezy night clubs. There is alot of swear words in the dialogue for this game being rated teen. The bottom line is if you liked the movie you will like the game, the visuals are outstanding.

Buy me!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love RPG's, and if you do too; this is a must buy. Even if Westwood's crazy claims aren't true the game is still incredible. The graphics, storyline, and AI are incredible. I hated the movie-the game is 1000 times better.

5 Star Best Adventure Game of 1998

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A game that takes place on the same fictional earth as Philip K. Dick's novel Blade Runner. Stuck in Los Angeles 2019 your job is to hunt down and "retire" android humans called replicants. They were genetically created for slavery on off-world planets. Illegal and dangerous, they try to hide in your hometown after they escaped and fled to earth. It's your job to sniff 'em out. With more than a few possible endings, and many different ways to get there, this game never gets old. There's just one question... are you human?

Like watching a movie, and occasionally clicking a mouse...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I must be the only person in the entire world who didn't like this game. Sure, the graphics are great, and it's really fun to be able to walk around in the world of one of my favorite movies of all time.

But...

Is the game really good? Let's compare. In what I consider to be a good RPG/adventure game, you would have complete freedom to go where you want, talk to whom you want, figure out the mystery on you own terms, just like real life. However, in Blade Runner, nothing is available until someone mentions it, or until you "discover" it. Several times I had a certain submystery figured out and could have moved on, but the game wouldn't let me because I hadn't done such and such yet.

What this means is that the entire game boils down to moving your mouse back and forth across the screen until the cursor changes, clicking, moving on to the next scene, and doing the same thing again. Point and click, point and click. Imagine watching a movie that every few minutes you have to press a button to move on to the next scene. That's all this game is. Player input is minimal, and the game practically runs itself.

I was sure that after not reading a single bad review ANYWHERE, Hmmm...

Wicked RPG!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy the movie and are a die-hard Blade Runner fan then you should absolutely get this game. The story lines (note the plural) are really astounding and you can almost bump into Deckard since his investigation is going on at the same time as yours. You have to play the game at least 5 times from start to finish in order to partially exhaust the possibilities. It isn't first-person but if you like the futuristic Blade Runner genre then you definitely should not miss out on this one. Westwood should think of a sequel. Great game.

Impressive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Blade Runner is very appealing to me. I have played the game through at least thirty times. One thing I love about the game is the sound of rain falling down. The voice acting is very impressive, and the game has a great script. I actully found the plot of the game more appealing than that of the movies.

A few downsides I can get over is the video sequences. A lot of them have really bad animation. Another downside is the audio, sometimes when two characters are talking to each other there will be a long pause in-between the end of one person's dialogue and the start of the next person's. Like I said I can get over that.

Don't just watch, play.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Blade Runner is a game by Westwood Studio's, the great people who brought you Command & Conquer and a studio always breaking new grounds in technology. This game was great, becasue a number of reasons. One, because you don't even have to like the movie to play this game, nor do you have to see it to play the game. Second, it really has many effects that really put you in the world of this cop/detective. Third, the cinema scenes are awesome and run smoothly even on older systems and really add quite a movie-esque feel to this. But that's not all, it has 6 different endings, depending on who you talk to or what you do during the game. It's really ashame to see such a great game with cutting edge technology on it's background and nobody really knew of this game. It's like a Zelda game comming out, but not noticed. Even if you didn't know about this epic game, you shouldn't doubt it's style, because it has everything you could want in a game. The soundtrack is awesome, the graphics (even though the characters are a bit pixilized)are awesome, and the replay value is over the hill. I've played this game over 8 times and still havn't seen all the endings. With the cheap price they're asking, why not give it a try, you won't be sorry.

I give it a four

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just liked the whole breakdown of this game. I haven't seen the movie or read the book...but after this game I am going to check out both.

I can't explain it very well...it's a mix between the old Phillip Marlowe Detective Stories and 12 Monkeys.

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