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 (60462)
Sky of Steel	DOS	Christina Nordlander (26)
Guybrush Threepwood would LOVE this game!	DOS	Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari (13163)
An adventure most british. Dark yet witty and interesting.	DOS	Zovni (9141)
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 (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		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		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.