Beneath a Steel Sky

Description

In futuristic Australia, there are giant cities owned solely by corporations, separated by a giant wasteland known as The Gap. When Robert Foster's Gap-dwelling tribe is killed by soldiers from Union City who capture him, everything changes for him. After a narrow escape from the helicopter bringing him there as it inexplicably crashes, Robert and his droid Joey must search the decaying city, attempting to befriend both the snobby rich and the frustrated poor as the two attempt to get out of the city, but in the middle of everything they uncover the dark truth about LINC, the bizarre computer which makes the city tick.

Using the then revolutionary Virtual Theatre engine, BASS' characters can move freely independent of the player, allowing the game world to be much more dynamic than anything seen before (other than Virtual Theatre's debut game, the less popular Lure of the Temptress). Otherwise, the engine provides tried and true point-and-click adventure gameplay.

The iPhone version introduces a touch-based interface, new animated movies by Dave Gibbons, a context-sensitive hint system and a remastered audio track.

Alternate Titles

• "Beyond The Abyss" -- Working title
• "Beneath a Steel Sky: Remastered" -- iPhone title
• "BASS" -- Common abbreviation

Part of the Following Group

• Game Engine: Virtual Theatre

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User Reviews

Derivative adventure game which is neither deep nor amusing	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (63268)
Sky of Steel	DOS	Christina Nordlander (26)
Guybrush Threepwood would LOVE this game!	DOS	Indra was here... (13175)
An adventure most british. Dark yet witty and interesting.	DOS	Zovni (9138)
Much ado about nothing	DOS	Mr. Clark (14)
A lucasarts type adventure set in a futuristic world	DOS	devils102 (17)
EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!	DOS	Icarus Lytton (11)
Be vigilant	DOS	Black Wolf (37232)
Over-rated, but good at representing the Big Brother-Orwellian state theme.	DOS	Depth Lord (950)
Blade Runner meets batteries included in my personal favourtie Graphic adventure.	DOS	Matthew Bailey (1169)

The Press Says

The Freehare	DOS	2006		100
Abandonia	DOS	Mar 11, 2004	5 out of 5	100
PC Gamer	DOS	Dec, 1994	91 out of 100	91
Adventurearchiv	DOS	Apr 03, 2005	87 out of 100	87
Adventure-Treff	DOS	Jul 21, 2000	87 out of 100	87
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Mar, 1994	87 out of 100	87
Defunct Games	Amiga CD32	Mar 22, 2009	86 out of 100	86
Gamereactor (Sweden)	iPhone	Oct 19, 2009	8 out of 10	80
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Apr, 1994	78 out of 100	78
PC Zone	DOS	Aug, 1998	59 out of 100	59

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Trivia

The GOG.com release uses the cross-platform virtual machine ScummVM to make the game available for Windows users.