Blade Runner 1997 is still the cyberpunk experience to beat

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Blade Runner 1997 is still the cyberpunk experience to beat
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Who'd want a flawed copy when you can have the real thing?

Ridley Scott has never worked on a videogame, but he’s directed hundreds of them by proxy. Blade Runner and Alien have provided coordinates for development teams to steer towards for decades, defining the look, feel, and sound of interactive sci-fi as we know it today. Without them, there would be no Mass Effect, no Homeworld, and certainly no Cyberpunk.

When Command & Conquer studio Westwood pitched its Blade Runner game, the movie was already ancient history—almost a decade and a half old. And the rights for its fiction may as well have been off-world, scattered between actors with residuals and investors Scott had bled dry during production. But these factors, which might have struck many developers as prohibitive, were the making of Westwood’s adaptation.

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