Blade Runner is a Westwood Studios PC game loosely based on the 1982 movie of the same name. Released in 1997, the game was advertised as "the first real time adventure game". The story featured "Blade Runner" Ray McCoy searching for replicants in Los Angeles in the year 2019.
While it was generally agreed that the game's graphics and sound (music composed by Frank Klepacki) succeeded in adapting the cult film's haunting atmosphere, the designers' attempt at innovating gameplay such as simplifying the interface, adding action elements, replacing a traditional inventory with a database of clues, randomization of some events as well as multiple endings were given mixed reviews. The game performed poorly commercially, and since it coincided with the release of LucasArts' Curse of Monkey Island, another commercial flop, many deemed the adventure genre to have become a stale one, thus losing its mainstream status to FPS titles like Quake II and Half-Life.
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