So strictly speaking, you really don’t have to have played through Beneath a Steel Sky to know what this one is all about but if you want o get the most out of the references, you really should (it is free don’t forget). Thankfully, Beyond a Steel Sky gets you up to speed with the main events of the last game through various little references.
What’s not to love? But this City has a dark underbelly…įor those who do remember the original game from 1994, you are playing as Robert Foster once more and have to return to Union City a decade after the events of the first game. Union City is a utopia, its people loving life under the control of an altruistic AI: ever-attentive androids, designer living, piazzas and bars. The trail has led you to Union City, one of the last remaining mega-cities in a world ravaged by shattering wars, and political meltdown. A child has been abducted in a brutal attack. Patches will, no doubt, quickly fix the issues, at which point Beyond a Steel Sky will join its stablemates as a modern classic.You are Robert Foster. A handful of bugs, including one that breaks the game and forces you to retreat to earlier saves, threatens the delicate relationship of trust that exists between player and designer, as each time you get stuck, you question whether the fault lies with your reasoning or simply a glitch. Unfortunately the game has a few logic issues of its own.
Soon, Foster acquires a device that enables him to hack into everything from automated bridges to drinks machines and rewrite their internal logic to, for example, dispense free cans of soda, adding a technical dimension to the puzzle wrangling. The incessant challenge could be offputting were it not for the quality of the writing, which is thoroughly witty and engaging throughout. As players of Revolution’s classic Broken Sword series might expect, this is a world of nested puzzles each breakthrough is always met by some new, arcane resistance.
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