![]() In 2022, what’s more striking is the way the noir bleeds into Blade Runner’s mechanics, too. These innovations meant the studio could recreate not only the sight of a flying car landing in a busy street, but also the highly specific mixture of spotlights, spinning fans and fog that lent Blade Runner its distinct noir atmosphere. It looped animations in the background of its scenes, and even folded-in crude dynamic lighting. ![]() Yet Westwood rivalled id Software for its use of cutting-edge tech, folding in 20,000 instances of motion capture. This was not the time to invest in an unusually expensive take on an old-fashioned form. Full Throttle, the commercial high point for LucasArts adventure games, had already been and gone-and Westwood’s point ‘n’ click peers were struggling to adapt to a PC audience obsessed by the new promise of 3D. The development of Blade Runner 1997 is even more baffling and unlikely when you consider its genre.
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