This is rather beautiful: a series of famous movie environments – including BladeRunner, Aliens, and I Am Legend – recreated in the Unreal 3.0 (apparently) and Crysis engine, over on Incrysis.com. These were pulled from the original competition threads over at the Game Artist community forums.
EDIT: Full submissions thread here.
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OMG Want.
There are some other ridiculously beautiful entries there..
Indulge me, indeed. ;)
My heart almost stopped for a second there. Then I read past the headline and screenshot and realized that Westwood’s Blade Runner wasn’t being remade with new tech.
This looks pretty though.
If you want a quicker way to look at all the entries then the submission thread at GA is probably best :
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/scene-movie-competition/9279-scene-movie-submission-thread.html
Personally, I really liked the I am Legend and Fifth Element entries.
The Blade Runner scene was actually done in the Unreal 3 engine. The thread on it says so and it is obvious when looking at the images in full resolution.
Really makes me want a decent updated Aliens game and a I am Legend based game could be fun if done right. The ability, for example, to drive though bunches of mutated humans while sniping from the driver’s seat with a hunting rifle may just provide the fun that was missing from Left 4 Dead. IMO of course =)
There was also a great map for UT2003/4 called DM-2019 that was based on Blade Runner. It never was officially released, but its still damned good to look at. The game flow wasn’t all there, though.
Linky: http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/realmaps/angelheart/DM-2019.zip
There was also a UT99 version.
Seriously, EA (who owns BR video game rights as far as I know) should get on this ASAP. I’m pretty sure something good could come out of Blade Runner game made with the Mass Effect engine with a few tweaks…
@Markoff Chaney
Same here, actually. I recently played Westwoods Blade Runner game, having missed it when it came out in 1997. Great game, my first thought when entering RPS was : Yay ARE THEY MAKING A SEQUEL!
Way to get my hopes up, RPS!
Elisha: They started in UE3 but changed over to Crytek2 mid-way through the competition.
Their entry was the clear winner of the comp, though. (Second place was the Hook entry and third was the X-Men 2 entry by Coridium).
faithful dog kaboom :(
Aww, no new Bladerunner game :(
Just delete the Spinner from that image and you get what a first person remake/synergy of Syndicate and Deus Ex looks in my mind.
I LOVE IT.People responsible should get hired by Crytek immediately and be given whatever resources they would need to make a full game.
God I too hoped for this post to be about a new game using this design. Anyone noticed that we still haven’t left the brown in brown aesthetics for AAA titles?
no downloadable maps? I just had a case of blue balls
The Blade Runner ones look so incredible.
That’s the level of detail and atmosphere i want to be imersed in.
Now if they could populate it was believable AI and make it a living, breathing world it would be amazing.
Oh god. That Blade Runner environment needs to be in a game.
The images from Aliens make me miss the Aliens Versus Predator games. They also make me anxious about the upcoming Colonial Marines.
The backgrounds in the Westwood Blade Runner game didn’t actually look much worse than that, I’ve also been playing it recently out of nostalgic curiosity and man! What a game.
There’s a Clerks one in there of the Quick Stop! Fittingly, it looks kind of awful and low budget. This pleases me.
Blade Runner was a stupendously good game, preceding Chronicles of Riddick for the “surprisingly good film adaptation” award.
Though this is an awful lot of work put into two screenshots. I imagine you couldn’t keep this standard up for an entire game, unless you wanted a delay of Daikatana-like proportions.
Ohh damn…. i want a new Blade Runner game! If somebody made BR in RPG Mass Effect/ElderScroll/Fallout 3 style i would seriously wet myself.
“The backgrounds in the Westwood Blade Runner game didn’t actually look much worse than that,”
Yes they did.
The development thread has some higher res shots of the BR scene.
Here and Here. They’re simply amazing.
I want a Blade Runner social MMO.
I think everyone here agrees that we need a new Bladerunner game. Time to start a petition: I move that Troika resurrect themselves, magically do away with all their flaws, and make Bladerunner: the Masquerade.
Who’s with me?
plot ideas:
Tyrel corp’s leadership has been seceded by his more power-hungry (son, ex-wife, board of directors etc). Production of newer nexus models continues unabated and they have been integrated covertly into society on and off-world at many levels of government and industry. Some even literally replicating public figures covertly like body doubles for security or to increase their leisure time.
However, news of Roy’s rebellion and attempt to extend his precipt date has made him a martyr among a few self-aware replicants, and as an underground movement spreads, so does the risk that replicants, especially those standing in for more powerful figures will attempt a revolt.
Play as a blade runner, seeking out replicants who would/will/have done evil as part of this rebellion, with plenty of moral choices on what degree of evil warrants a retirement. Or possibly play as a replicant, trying to spread word of your movement to other replicants as well as work toward finding a fix for your precipt date.
Locations to include on and off world… expand the blade runner universe some. Show us the “things you people wouldn’t believe…” Give us older models of replicants who are visually obvious, programmed for every purpose imaginable from factory work to combat.. who’s retirement doesn’t hold a moral ambiguity and can be cannon fodder etc.
Could be awesome. Like a morally gray Mass Effect.
Jesus, the BR one’s are just fantastic. Makes me want to reinstall the game and watch the movie again.
Incredible stuff. There are some so very talented people out there.
I jizzed. In. My Pants.
Nallen: Second.
@ Spice Rack: is that still “upcoming” or were the rumours of cancellation true?