![]() ![]() This is, unquestionably a BASS game, still with an emphasis on droids and hacking, lengthy monologues, and poking your nose where you don’t belong. ![]() Because, honestly, Gibbons and the team have done a wonderful job bringing a pixelated adventure game into a living, breathing, interactive 3D world. But you’ll soon be swept up in the game’s utterly compelling story and it’s absolutely stunning depiction of a modern day dystopian sci-fi. Now that ‘better world’ seems to exist, and there’s a living breathing population reaping the benefits, walking alongside you.įor some people, that might take a bit of adjustment, and you may wonder if the halmarks of the original game have been lost. ![]() It is understandable as the original game was very much about laying the foundations of a better world – and there would undoubtedly be adversity to that. Some of the themes and tones used throughout are certainly unsettling, but there feels like much more safety netting cast around. In that regard, Beyond a Steel Sky doesn’t really make the player uncomfortable. Before I stepped into a new room, I hammered that save button, took a deep breath, and tip-toed over, unsure what I was about to come up against. Worried that my next move was going to be my last move. There was something about Beneath a Steel Sky that really kept me on edge. The sense of peril that followed you through the first game has kind of been lost. And perhaps that’s one of the immediate and most striking deviations between the games – apart from the stunning new visual style – most of those iconic death scenes you were used to from the original are gone. This is a very different Union City, a mostly safer one, but one that still harbours some very dark and sinister secrets. But it turns out that Joey isn’t actually the one in charge anymore and a Council have formed to keep the peace using a new Qdos system. However, he’s surprised to find that it seems relatively easy going – though really tangled up in red tape. Revisiting Union City is a conflicting experience for Robert, especially since he barely escaped last time. But when Milo, a young child is snatched unexpectedly by a machine unlike any they’ve ever seen, Robert feels like it could have only come from one place. Set years after the events of Beneath with Joey left to rule Union City and Robert Foster living life in the Gap in a remote village. In recent re-releases, Gibbons completed full comic panel style introductions to set the scene for the game, something that immediately sets up the plot for the sequel.īeyond is a true sequel, then. But also incredibly distinct with its quick-witted dialogue, grisly death sequences, and stunning comic book style. It was something of a groundbreaker, for sure. I still can’t believe we got a sequel to Beneath a Steel Sky 26 years later.Īs someone who has played the original multiple times over the years, I’ve been hoping and wishing that Charles Cecil and Dave Gibbons would finally get together again.īeneath a Steel Sky helped launch Revolution Software along with Lure of the Temptress and paved the way for the legendary Broken Sword series.īut BASS also helped usher in a cyberpunk/dystopian era in adventure games which had previously been steeped in high fantasy.
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