Beyond a Steel Sky

1994’s Beneath a Steel Sky is a dystopian cyberpunk point-and-click that’s a much bigger deal than you probably realise. Set in the awful future all dystopian cyberpunk scenarios have plotted for us, Robert Foster is an adopted citizen of the Gap, the new name for the new hell that has become the Australian outback. He’s kidnapped and strong-armed along to Union City where he has to try and undo the oppressive regime of tyrannical AI overlord, LINC. One of the things this game does well is bring the player up to speed on current events as it very quickly and efficiently reminds us of the main things that happened in Beneath. It is done so naturally and will help ensure that it’s not necessary to play the original if the player doesn’t have the time or the inclination to do so. Indeed while this game is a sequel it doesn’t rely on nostalgia or on the success of the original game and it s

Beneath a Steel Sky was one of my favourite games on the Amiga 26 years ago, and I'm thrilled that Union City has made a return. The sequel is packed with some lovely references to the Amiga original, and it was magical to revisit these characters all these years later. The switch from a traditional point and click interface works well, too - and if anything makes the city far more immersive - plus the game has some brilliant new characters with some wonderful voice acting. That said, the second half of the game doesn't quite live up to the first, with puzzles and characters becoming much more sparse - it feels like the latter half was rushed compared to the first. And the main issue is the buggy nature of the game, with things like characters wandering through each other, audio fading down suddenly and all manner of other things. Hopefully most of these issues will be fixed with time,

As a huge fan of the original game (more on that later), I was extremely worried about this sequel. I wasn't sure if they could live up to expectation (at least not to mine) since the original game was so amazing and atmospheric but I think they (mostly) managed to do an amazing job. The first game has a very special place in my heart. Back in December 1993, the first issue of the magazine PC Gamer (UK) arrived on the shelves and with it came a Beneath A Steel Sky demo, specifically created for PC Gamer. It was my second PC games magazine and adventure games were unknown to me, having grown up on consoles and my Game Boy. Man, this demo changed my world - a gripping story, amazing setting, brilliant pixel art and an atmosphere unlike anything else I'd ever seen in a game! On top of that, the dialogue was witty, funny and just great. I became the biggest fan of BASS when it was a relativ

Beyond a Steel Sky There are excellent reviews written about this game already that cover the things I usually have to say so I will not reiterate them here. How about this? I loved this game. New mechanics are introduced; it still feels like a “good old point and click”. There are some clever and unique puzzles that you solve with your new tool: an excellent hacker device! I had a lot of fun with this and extended my game-play by doing many unnecessary, but fun things with it. Game Play: You access your inventory and game options by the escape key or “I”. You almost always know your objective and how to proceed. If not, there is a hint function if you get stuck that provides one nudge at a time rather than the solution. You have many set-up options so tweak away to your hearts content. The game autosaves after a chapter/memory. You also have a manual save option (thank you!).

To be able to play this with windows 7 you need to copy xinput_3.dll to windows\system32 folder and rename it to xinput_4.dll. Otherwise it may not even start. After working it is a nice story

Don't fix it if it's not broken My favorite point&click adventure game is Broken Sword 2 and since this one comes from the same developers I had to play it and I wasn't dissapointed. Although I still can't comprehend why this studio is so set on making their games 3D when they obviously don't have the budget. Nothing wrong with 2D graphics get this into your heads developers. Cheap, poorly made 3D graphics made with no budget don't age well. Just look at first two broken sword games and then 3&4. Which ones look more appealing today? Stop it, enough, 2D cartoonish look is amazing and ages well. So what's the game? It's basically a third person point&click adventure game. You arrive at the city and all the shenanigans start. You run around talking to characters and investigating everything around you just as you're used to in such games. The story starts slowly and honestly it's kinda h