Replaced review – nostalgic cyberpunk tribute has few ideas of its own

PC, Xbox; Sad Cat Studios This pulpy sci-fi thriller is a beautiful, if deferential, homage to the genre greats, with a poignant real-world echo For all of cyberpunk’s cautionary tales of shady corporations and transhumanist folly, it is the genre’s arresting imagery that looms largest in the pop culture imagination. Petroleum flares light up the perpetually rainy Los Angeles of Blade Runner; in the novel Neuromancer, the sky is the “colour of television, tuned to a dead channel”. Replaced, a...

By Lewis Gordon