It's been 16 years since director Ridley Scott brought to life the damp and dangerous Los Angeles of 2019. Other than the 1992 director's cut, Blade Runner fans have had to watch the same old movie over and over. But the Blade Runner universe is still kicking, and now it's come to a CD-ROM drive near you.
Built around impressive goal-oriented AI, characters act as free agents, using their "programmed free will" to create unpredictable events. Blade Runner has a high replay value, since you never know who is a friend or enemy.
Westwood Studios engineers put a lot of creativity into bringing the film to life, and the results are stunning. Some impressive graphics-compression routines were combined with a proprietary motion-capture system to make a multilayered world.
Blade Runner stays true to the film noir look and feel of the movie; more important, it breaks ground in the way interactive stories are told.
##### Blade Runner: US$49.95. Westwood Studios: on the Web at www.westwood.com/.
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