Let’s Play Blade Runner! 
Based loosely on the movie which in itself was based on the novel “I Dream of Electric Sheep” or something to that effect, Blade Runner is one of those games which caught me by surprise; both in that existed as well as being as good as it was. This is a great game:
Let’s Play Blade Runner:
My brother randomly gifted me this game for Christmas in I want to say 1999. I remember Comedy Central had a Dr. Kats marathon leading up to New Year’s where they were showing those last previously unaired episodes, and I guess my brother was home visiting from college and gave me this game.
This was just entering my comatose video game years (1999-2002, remember?… if you’ve been reading along on here) where I wasn’t playing many video games, especially of the PC variety. So I guess it’s fair to say that I didn’t exactly have my finger on the pulse of the video game world.
I have to admit I was skeptical at first of this game, again not knowing that it existed. Plus in my experience most movie to game conversions don’t take. This really is one of the best, even if it doesn’t follow the plot of that movie especially closely, that may even have been why it worked.
Instead of piloting Ford’s “Deckard” character, you play as Ray McCoy, rookie on the Blade Runner squad, sent to investigate an animal murder in LA. A neat thing about this game is that they still make a lot of references to the Deckard character and his whereabouts without ever specifically naming him, but if you’ve seen the film, then you can generally make out who they’re referring to.
Of course with most detective noir stories, the first crime is just the tip of the iceberg. The further you dig, the more you learn how deadly these replicates are, the more corrupt your own department is, and the more about your own ambiguous identity.
It really is a fantastic game made even more perfect through perfect dialogue and execution through excellent voice acting. They even got a number of the original actors to reprise their roles. It was also billed as the first “real time” game, which manifested in some cool and dramatic ways as you played as you never knew when something would play out.
There are also a host of different endings where are actually different endings instead of just a different line of dialogue or two, so depending on who you befriend, betray, fall for – they all have different outcomes, some more hopeful or bleak than the rest.
If it sounds like I like this game, I really do (and good on you for being receptive!).