Miss a day at work and your Qdos level might drop, barring you access to some of the city's more lavish entertainments. While Union is blessed with plenty -there is no apparent poverty or crime- citizens are encouraged to boost their 'Qdos' level by working hard at their assigned jobs and performing good deeds.
A forest of gold-tinged buildings, neon signage and digital advertisements bawling at its residents to aspire and consume. Under the stewardship of Foster's robotic pal Joey, it has become a gleaming utopia. One of the most fascinating things about this long-awaited sequel is that Beyond A Steel Sky nails its 2020 relevance by flipping Union City on its head.
Forged in a post Cold War world, Robert Foster's journey was -for all its light-hearted humour- a reflection of socio-economic peril. Revolution's classic 1994 point-and-click adventure Beneath A Steel Sky saw you trawling the underbelly of a dystopian sci-fi city to uncover its grand conspiracy.
Formats: Apple Arcade, PC Developer: Revolution Software Out now. Intelligent puzzles are interwoven with an intriguing dramatic narrative to deliver a compelling gameplay experience.Ī beautifully detailed, comic-book styled world, from the mind of legendary comic artist Dave Gibbons. Unravel dark conspiracies, defeat a terrifying antagonist in this dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller, which explores contemporary themes: social control, AI, and total surveillance. In combination with a unique hacking tool, multiple solutions to puzzles emerge from player choices. ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’ is a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic gameworld that responds to – and is subverted by – the player’s actions.Īn adventure set within a dynamic world, populated by willful characters driven by motivations that the player can subvert. But the trail has led you from your community of desert wasteland dwellers, to Union City, one of the last remaining mega-cities in a world ravaged by shattering wars, and political meltdown.įortified and impenetrable, it is a utopia in which people live happily under the surveillance and control of a benign AI. A child has been abducted in a brutal attack. From Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind ‘Watchmen’, comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, the long awaited sequel to the cult classic ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’.
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