Is it any good... Blade Runner

Advantages: Great graphic moody sound
Disadvantages: Bit linear

...Combining the dark, atmospheric scenery, moody sound track and basic ideas of the original Blade Runner film with a totally new story line, Blade Runner the game is a 3D action adventure and detective novel rolled into one. It is a really involving game which draws you into the dark and seedy underworld protrayed in the film. The storyline is excellent but is more linear than the game makers would have you imagine. True there is about 16 endings (I managed to find about 5) but for the rest of the game you feel as if you are actually doing no detecting. It seems that you just have to be in the right place at the right time and ask the right questions. Using the HK machine to determine if someone is a replicant is fun though. Overall its a quite fun game to play but mebbies a little tedious in parts. Cheers Alex...

northernalex 15.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Blade Runner (PC)

Blade Runner - 1994

Advantages: As far as electronic music goes, you can't do any better
Disadvantages: So many musical styles may not please all

...the way we treat our enviroment, could yield to a very similar future unless we take care of our planet and ensure a more bright future. To score his futuristic vision, Scott hired the electronic composer Vangelis to create a sonic world as urban and bleak as his film. The music Vangelis composed fits this film remarkably well, since the electronic approach is so at home in a sci-fi film of this kind. The score is held together most noticeably by a recurring motif, that I call the "Blade Runner" motif. It goes through the score like a red line, and out of all the other music is probably the most easily identifiable. It is a very simple, chromatic motif running down the scale hitting all the keys in between. Its dark simplicity is perfect for the bleak and urban city scapes of the future. The musical styles are very varied throughout, ranging...

berlioz 04.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of Blade Runner (Synthesizer Soundtracks) - Various Artists

* Hacksaw Blade runner . .

Advantages: Virtually unbreakable.
Disadvantages: A bit dearer than ordinary blades.

...Hacksaw blade bi-metal, these are used for cutting all metals. They are available in 12 inch or the slightly shorter 10 inch version, they are made from sturdy Molybdenum with a carbon steel backing. They are made to fit the traditional frame hacksaws, as well as the new mini hacksaws for hard to reach places. TPI - Teeth per inch, Ciao listed this review for the 18 TPI version, although 24 is more common, they can also be found with as many as 32 teeth per inch for really fine work. All these blades are suitable for cutting all types of metal, up to a quarter of an inch thick. These blades are also shatter resistant, they are able to bend more, and flex rather than snap. In fact you can actually form a circle with them! Price? Well, how long is a piece of string? Shop around and you will find them in all manner of prices...

smudgeybabes 22.02.2008 · Read review
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Blade Runner

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...OK, I admit...the first time I watched this movie I detested it. But hey, I was 16 years old and had expected an action-packed sci-fi adventure. Blade Runner is not such a film. But I am grateful for this, for after maturing a bit and rewatching the movie a couple of times, I discovered its greatness. It is not a traditional sci-fi movie, it's a touching drama about the value of life and the importance of making the most of what you've got. One of the most important themes in the film is the question of what is more valuable - humans without emotions, or machines with? The film gives no answer - it just opens our eyes and makes us aware that we should be grateful for being alive. Some people prefer the Director's Cut, but I like the original version better - mostly because of the wonderful end line: "I didn't know how long we had...

ros145 15.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (DVD)

Ignore the criticism Blade Runner is a classic

Advantages: Good story, brilliant set design, score, "mood", intelligence
Disadvantages: acting, uneven pace, 15 minutes too long

...Blade Runner had a difficult birth some 19 years ago to the point where it was almost strangled at birth because either no one wanted to produce it or wanted to see it enough. The original script, written by Hampton Fancher, and taken from the best-selling sci-fi book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick, was turned down by all the major studios as either being unworkable or too dull to turn into a screenplay. And even when a studio did finally take a chance with the script financing the film almost killed off both the studio and the movie itself through sheer lack of confidence by the studio backers. On top of all that there were the infamous off-screen recriminations, arguments & alleged fisticuffs twixt English director Ridley Scott (of Alien fame), Harrison Ford (Star Wars & Indianna Jones) and most...

dreamstar70 04.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (DVD)

Blade Runner is true to the film

Advantages: Brilliant design gives the game the look and feel of the film "Blade Runner."
Disadvantages: Some aspects of the game look and gameplay lack originality

...Westwood Studios has meticulously crafted "Blade Runner" to evoke the same atmosphere that has made the film an enduring classic. Using original sets, images, sounds and music from the film, "Blade Runner" transports you into Los Angeles in the year 2019 and the world of Deckard. However, in this adventure, you portray Ray McCoy, another Blade Runner on the beat. It is the atmosphere that is the key to the success of "Blade Runner," Part of this atmosphere is the fantastic soundtrack and theme music. A haunting synthesized flow of electrical aura radiates and swims around you. If I had one improvement, it would be that they had given the music a more dominant role in the game. Often times, it is too subtle. And while it permeates the whole structure of the adventure, I feel it should have been a lot more prevalent. Westwood certainly...

Screm 23.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Blade Runner (PC)

Blade Runner - Basically An Interactive Film

Advantages: Like the movie, Perfect Graphics, Great Sound
Disadvantages: Don't Like Movie - Don't Like This - Click And Point System - Graphics "Bitty" on close up shots

...Blade Runner is is based on the movie and the game could nearly be a considered as a movie. The game is more plot than action. You play as a police officer on the same unit as Harrison Ford's character from the movie, as the movie is taking place. Your job is to hunt down replicants, renegade androids who are posing as humans and trying to find a way to extend their life. The good thing about this movie game that unlike others there can be more than one ending. You control your character through mouse clicks. You tell him to either walk somewhere, examine something, or shoot something by clicking. The game being a movie id limited to this click system which does not suprise me. But it's a pretty good movie. You can interact with characters, choose what attitude to take when addressing people, and click people to fight them! If you...

marcg 21.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Blade Runner (PC)

Blade Runner Review by Darren

Advantages: Great film ...
Disadvantages: Still not had a decent DVD release though :-(

...it is all city. The urban sprawl has devoured any trace of nature, the animals are all artificial and the backdrops reveal nothing but endless rows of buildings as far as the eye can see. In fact the only sight of anything green in the film is when Deckard daydreams for a few seconds of a unicorn running through a forest: even this being a false memory. As with most films in the science fiction genre, Blade Runner is dependant on special effects to depict the world it is prophesying, but unlike so much work in this continually developing area, the special effects in this film still hold up very well twenty years down the line and a large part of the credit for this must go to Douglas Trumbull who did similarly timeless work creating outer space in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Equally impressive is the amount of detail to be seen in even...

Darren 29.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Blade Runner (Director's Cut) (DVD)

Blade

Advantages: read opp
Disadvantages: read opp

...Blade was first released in 1998, directed by Stephen Norrington, and starring Wesley Snipes as a half human half vampire, who's mission is to slay all the bad vampires of the world. When I first saw this film I loved it, I was a big fan of the comic books, and watching a big screen adaptation was just well worth the wait. I thought snipes was a brilliant actor to play blade, having seen his early films i.e. passenger 57, and demolition man, this guy is a awesome martial arts expert and can kick ass. If I was to explain Blade to anyone who hasn't seen it, I would describe it as a more violent, intense and action packed Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Plot: The film starts off really well; a young man is taken into a secret underground nightclub. At first he thinks everything is cool, then gradually realises this is not the sort of club...

jaygami1986 31.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Blade (DVD)

Blade Runner is sci Fi at its best

Advantages: Fantastic film, effects still hold up to today's
Disadvantages: not much in the way of extras

...You know all those futuristic scenes in films and videogames, the ones where the cities are dirty and full of smoke, with fast moving flying cars and more electronics than Sony HQ? This is the film which inspired those scenes. From above, the cities look fantastical, all lights and high towers, but on the ground their appears the muddled mess of all human life, looking like a city in the aftermath of a major disaster. Blade Runner is a modern classic, based on the novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Phillip K Dick, it tells the story of a cop recruted to hunt down sophisticated androids, called Replicants, who are blending in with humans in an attempt to prolong their lifespan. The set peices and effects are fantastic, even though the film is nearly 20 years old. Being already based on a solid story, the scenery only...

pbyron 05.03.2001 · Read review
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