A word of warning - if you're a replidroid and your
company offers you early retirement, take care. It may not mean
a cottage in the country and cream teas with the Darby and
Joan. Nope, for replidroids retirement is just another word for a
one way trip to the tip. One Ford (Harrison) will take you there
and you'll more than likely end up in another (Cortina).
In CRL's
Bladerunner, you're the one doling out the pension
scheme to twenty-four renegade replidroids on the run on earth.
The first screen presents you with an aerial view of the city. You
must guide your skimmer car around the streets in pursuit of the
robotic runaways, then hover over the area before landing.
The screen now changes to a side on view of the city street
with a scanner along the bottom that indicates how far you are
from your quarry. As soon as your skimmer's come to rest, start
legging it after the replidroid so that you can explain the benefits
of retirement to him - you'll find your gun a convincing
persuader. But watch out, the streets are mean and you must
take care not to blast away any passing pedestrians or get run
over by skimmers. The more replidroids you take out, the more
money you make for your own retirement.
Now I didn't expect the game to follow the film faithfully - it
says on the inlay that it's a 'video game interpretation of the film
score by Vangelis' - but a bit more variety in the gameplay
wouldn't have gone amiss. Overall the idea for the game's fine
but it feels unfinished. A touch
more speed and a bit more
polish would've improved it no
end. As it is, I retired early from
this one,
| Ratings given by other magazines |
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6/10
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6/10
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| Info supplied by the SPOT*ON database |
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