A traditional journey remastered by Nightdive

Considered one of Westwood’s classics is enhanced and accessible once more, this time for contemporary {hardware}. Blade Runner: Enhanced Version is lastly out right this moment for PC and consoles.

Nightdive Studios put collectively this remastered model of the 1997 journey traditional. It’s accessible digitally on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles, and on the Nintendo Swap. The Enhanced Version can also be getting a Restricted Run bodily model, too.

Whereas Westwood could also be identified for its historical past within the real-time technique style, Blade Runner was its shock journey hit. It runs alongside the Ridley Scott movie, weaving by the occasions of the film. It has branching paths although, and has been well-remembered for each its fashion and spectacular design.

Remastered desires of electrical sheep

Nightdive, the studio which has tackled different remasters like System Shock: Enhanced Version, has put just a few trendy touches on Blade Runner. Because it’s coming to consoles, gamepad assist is an apparent one.

The unique Westwood movies have been upscaled to 4K decision and 60 frames per second. There’s additionally an HD show, and a brand new clue interface. Plus, worldwide followers can use the unique foreign-language translations in Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Chinese language subtitles.

As for reception? Properly, it at the moment appears iffy. Customers on Steam are voting it into the Largely Detrimental tier on launch day. Rock Paper Shotgun additionally had some phrases about this Enhanced Version in comparison with different choices, and offered some good comparability screenshots.

There’s one other model of the unique Blade Runner only for PC, on GOG. So in case your impressions of the Enhanced Version are equally tepid, you possibly can no less than decide that one up as an alternative.