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iPhone
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DOS
84
3.9
Windows
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4.9

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

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Beneath A Steel Sky DOS $2.50  
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User Reviews

Derivative adventure game which is neither deep nor amusing DOS Unicorn B. Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (60462)
Sky of Steel DOS Christina Nordlander (26)
Guybrush Threepwood would LOVE this game! DOS Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari Bronze Star Contributing Member (13163)
An adventure most british. Dark yet witty and interesting. DOS Zovni (9141)
Much ado about nothing DOS Mr. Clark Bronze Star Contributing Member (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 (37231)
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 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
Abandonia DOS Mar 11, 2004 5 out of 5 100
High Score DOS Jul, 1994 5 out of 5 100
Adventure-Treff DOS Jul 21, 2000 87 out of 100 87
Gamereactor (Sweden) iPhone Oct 19, 2009 8 out of 10 80
Adventure Gamers DOS Mar 18, 2005 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
Joystick DOS Oct, 1994 80 out of 100 80
Adventure Classic Gaming DOS Jan 29, 2007 4 out of 5 80
PC Player (Germany) DOS Apr, 1994 78 out of 100 78
Aventura y Cía DOS Feb 20, 2005 3.5 out of 5 70

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Trivia

Programmers of the Amiga version left the following information in the main "exe" file. The information describes big problems the programmers had with deficient Amiga hardware when developing the game:

At the beginning the programmers were happy and did rejoice at their task, for the Amiga before them did shineth and was full of promise. But then they did look closer and did see'th the awful truth; it's floppies were tiny and sloweth (rareth was its hard drive). And so small was it's memory that did at first appear large; queereth also was its configuration(s). Then they did findeth another Amiga, and this was slightly different from the first. Then a third, and this was different again. All different, but not really better, for all were pseudo backward compatible. But, eventually, it did come to pass that Steel Sky was implemented on a 1meg os-legal CBM Amiga. And the programmers looked and saw that it was indeed a miracle. But they were not joyous and instead did weep for nobody knew just what had been done.


This entry was contributed by Picard (22314), Sciere Bronze Star Contributing Member (117936), Baxter (38), Kabushi (48039) and Syed GJ (1572)
 

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