Beneath a Steel Sky

Game review

Beneath a Steel Sky is adventure old game, published in 1994 by Virgin Interactive. We gave this game stunning rating of 90 % and you can download it for free. The story of the game Beneath a Steel Sky is set in the distant future in Australia, there are huge cities with tall skyscrapers, owned by corporations. The richest people live on lower floors, while poor people live on the top floors, mostly without access to the elevator. Among these cities is just wasteland - The Gap. In the gap, there are tribes who feed only by hunting and gathering. You play as the character of Robert Foster. You grow up in the Gap, in one of the tribe. One day, however, the soldiers arrived, your entire village has beendestroyed and you have been taken into the city. Your task is to escape the city and uncover the truth about the artificial intelligence that controls the city - LINC. You are not alone, you have your faithful droid Joey to help you.

Originally titled Underworld, the game was a collaboration between game director Charles Cecil and comic book artist Dave Gibbons. Cecil was a fan of Gibbons's work and approached with the idea of a video game. The game has a serious tone but features humour-filled dialogue, which came as a result of Cecil's and writer Dave Cummins's goal to find a middle ground between the earnestness of Sierra's and the slapstick comedy of LucasArts's adventure games. It was built using Revolution's Virtual Theatre engine, first used in Revolution's previous and debut release, 1992's Lure of the Temptress.

Beneath a Steel Sky is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The player uses a point-and-click interface to interact with the environment and to guide protagonist Robert Foster through the game's world. To solve puzzles and progress in the game, the player collects items that may be combined with one another, used on the environment, or given to non-player characters (NPCs). The protagonist converses with NPCs via dialogue trees to learn about the game's puzzles and plot.[3] Clues and other information are obtained by clicking on items in the inventory and on objects in the environment. Unlike in most adventure games at the time, the protagonist's death is possible, after which the player starts from the last save point.

BaSS plays very well. The controls are timeless and in no way comparable to current games. The smotná game is relatively simple and more or less logical. Unfortunately (thank goodness for some), it is also quite short. The environment is excellent, the graphic stylization is perfect, and for people with a weakness for the pixel age (like me), the animation is also great. However, what amused me the most is the humor contained in the game. Although the game is essentially serious, there are plenty of allusions, jokes and humorous scenes.