10 Massively Underrated Video Games Based On Movies

Okay, so Westwood's point and click action-adventure wasn't exactly based on Ridley Scott's sci-fi opus, more an interpretation of his film and the future mapped in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, but there is still no game more worthy of topping this list.

Pre-rendered backdrops were all the rage in the nineties and while the likes of the Final Fantasy and Resident Evil games reached new heights of popularity presenting themselves in this way, none of them felt as lived in as Blade Runner. In keeping with the movie, the game is a rainy, neon-soaked and sometimes sparse joy to behold, more a live story than a game.

Events take place around the same time as the movie/book, with plenty of nods given to Deckard's own arc, putting you in the trench coat of Ray McCoy. This time around you're hunting animal-killing replicants.

This would all be a pretty hollow experience if the gameplay wasn't up to scratch but thankfully Westwood have taken all the things that make point and clicks so good, turning in something quite different.

Instead of having players use object A to open up object B, the game requires lots of conversation-driven sleuthing and puzzle solving in order to progress. Chuck in some very real danger - you can be shot dead into a puddle at any moment - and there really is no game quite like this.