NEWS | Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition set sights for mutli-platform release
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 13, 2020 - Nightdive Studios has partnered with Alcon Entertainment on Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, a modern restoration of the classic 1997 video game Blade Runner for a multi-platform release.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition will be released for Steam, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One are expected in 2020.
Originally released in 1997 by Westwood Studios, Blade Runner is an adventure game recreates the sci-fi cinematic masterpiece while delivering, at the time, groundbreaking graphics, an original musical score, and a canonical branching narrative is seamlessly interwoven with the events of Ridley Scott’s 1982 feature film.
Once lost for years and only recently coming out of retirement, this seminal game will soon become widely available to a whole new generation of gamers around the world.
The game's restoration duties will be handled by Nightdive using their proprietary KEX game engine, which has been used to restore classic video games including System Shock: Enhanced Edition, Turok, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, Blood, and Forsaken Remastered.
With Nightdive at the helm, fans of the cult classic can expect a polished and premium restoration from. The original foreign-language translations, so fans can enjoy the game in German, French, Italian, and Chinese.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition will feature updated character models and animations, upscaled cutscenes using machine learning algorithms, widescreen resolution support, keyboard and controller customisation, and much more. However, fans will be pleased to learn that the original look and feel of the game is being preserved.
“Blade Runner is still a jaw-dropping achievement on every level, so while we’re using KEX to upgrade the graphics and respectfully elevate the gaming experience in a way you’ve never seen before, we’re still preserving Westwood’s vision and gameplay in all its glory,” said Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick. “While you can enjoy the benefits of playing the game on modern hardware, the game should look and feel not as it was, but as glorious as you remember it being.”
The Alcon-Nightdive partnership was brokered by Joe LeFavi of Genuine Entertainment, who is co-producing the game alongside Nightdive and Alcon Interactive Group. No stranger to the franchise, LeFavi previously produced The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049, Alcon’s top-selling art book for their Academy Award-winning film sequel in 2017.
Asides from this announcement, we've only been provided with a teaser poster of the game.
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