Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Reveals Release Date
In 2020, Nightdive Studios, developer of the upcoming System Shock remake, introduced an bold remastering undertaking for the cult basic 1997 PC journey sport Blade Runner. The undertaking was meant to carry the beloved Westwood Studios title that pioneered many mechanics and parts utilized in later 3D journey video games to consoles for the very first time on prime of remastering and preserving it for newer audiences. Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition bumped into some troubles and was delayed indefinitely from its 2020 launch window, and now seems to be arriving on trendy platforms immediately subsequent week.
Blade Runner is a 1997 3D journey sport primarily based on the 1982 Ridley Scott movie that was impressed by sci-fi writer Phillip Okay. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The sport’s narrative runs parallel to the unique movie’s, additionally happening in a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019, however as a substitute following a Blade Runner named Ray McCoy who’s tasked with looking down a rogue group of Replicants very like the movie’s protagonist Rick Deckard. The sport options some characters and actors from the movie reminiscent of Sean Young as Rachael, and makes use of components of the enduring movie rating composed by Greek musician Vangelis.
Nightdive Studios, which is chargeable for many critically acclaimed remaster tasks lately together with Doom 64, Quake, and Shadow Man Remastered, introduced in 2020 that it will remaster Westwood’s unique title and convey it to trendy platforms in collaboration with Blade Runner movie studio Alcon Entertainment. This announcement got here alongside the discharge of an AI unscaled 4K remaster of the sport’s opening cutscene. Later nevertheless, Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition was delayed indefinitely resulting from technical points, which Nightdive’s CEO claimed was resulting from an absence of archived supply code, ensuing within the developer having to rebuild the sport in its inner KEX engine used for earlier remasters.
Now, after briefly showing within the Limited Run Games LRG3 showcase, Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition has returned with a launch date of June twenty third, 2022 throughout all main digital storefronts. The sport shall be priced at $9.99 and the Nintendo Switch file dimension is already confirmed to be 3.7GB. For those that need a bit extra, the bodily version from Limited Run Games shall be $34.99.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition will launch on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One on June twenty third 2022.