The remaster of the adventure classic Blade Runner, which was announced a good two years ago, is about to be released. Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition for PC (Steam), PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch is scheduled to be released tomorrow, June 23, 2022. >Blade Runner: Enhanced is a bit late
June 23, 2022 for the release of Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is now set according to information on Steam, PlayStation Store and Nintendo eShop. It is unclear whether the date also applies to the Xbox One version. According to PlayStation Store, the title will go live Thursday at 6am.
The remaster of Westwood's 1997 point-and-click adventure is a long time coming, as 2020 was originally planned for release.
Nightdive lends a hand again
Nightdive Studios specializes in new editions, and like Turok 2 Remastered or System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition, the upcoming Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition will also use the KEX engine. Larry Kuperman, the studio's lead developer, explained to The Hollywood Reporter that porting the code had to be reverse engineered because the original Blade Runner source code was lost.
The developers have promised updates to character models, graphics, animations and cutscenes, as well as widescreen support and configurable controller or keyboard controls.
The now published list of adjustments for the Steam version reads as follows:
- Reconstruction and processing of the original Westwood VQA videos
- Cinematic video frame rates updated from 15fps to 60fps
- Modern HD display
- Improved user interface ""Knowledge Integration Assistant"" (KIA) and Hint UI
- Improved subtitles support
- Support for modern gamepads
- SMAA Anti Aliasing
- Anisotropic texture filtering
The official system requirements are as follows:
AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz Memory 2 GB 4 GB Graphics card GPU with DirectX 11 (from Radeon HD 5xxx and GeForce GTX 4xx)
or Vulkan 1.1 (from Radeon HD 7xxx and GeForce GTX 6xx with Kepler) Memory space 10 GB Sound card 100% DirectX compatible
< p class="p text-width">If you prefer the original, you can find it in a slightly modified form on GOG*.
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