Blade Runner 1997

Is it still worth playing?

Westwood Studios' 1997 point and click adventure for Windows, which runs parallel to the 1982 film. You play Ray McCoy, a rookie Blade Runner in 2019 Los Angeles, assigned to a case of replicants suspected of killing animals. Play is detective work: you search crime scenes, question suspects and use the ESPER system to enhance photos until they reveal details. Voight Kampff tests show whether a subject is a replicant, and pushing a subject with too many high intensity questions ends the test with no result. Characters go about their business in real time, so what you find or miss can change what happens to them. Two suspects are always replicants, the others are randomized in each new game, and there are 13 endings. Suspects who differ each new game, and clues that change what others do, give every case a reason to start again today.