This leads Foster into uncovering the dark truth about Union City and it’s a convincing journey along the way.īeyond A Steel Sky, like its predecessor, plays with concepts familiar to classic fiction like Brave New World as well as landmark videogame series’ like Fallout and Borderlands to establish its identity whilst clinging steadfast to tradition like a rottweiler synching its teeth into your Nike shorts. Foster’s task leads him outside familiar surroundings and towards the unknown Union City – a pulsing futuristic metropolis and one of the last bastions and safe havens from war and political upheaval and strife, where robotic drones roam and the populace distracts itself with all manner of digital folly all under the watchful eye of a benign A.I.įoster has to resort to infiltration tactics after stealing an ID chip to gain access to Union City, donning several aliases to pass by unchecked from the city’s bigwigs as he attempts to track down Milo and take revenge on his captors. Set 10 years after the events of Beneath A Steel Sky, Robert Foster is no longer a timid little boy lost in the outlands known as “The Gap” he’s a man on a mission to rescue a boy called Milo who has gotten himself caught up in the clutches of masked riders as they ambush a settlement, kidnap him and stow him into the back of a four-legged machine-like vehicle.
Is there any room for Beyond A Steel Sky to leave a lasting contribution on the evolution of the point and clicker over a quarter of a century later, or does it refuse to remove itself from the past? Later on, Telltale Games broke the mould with its emotionally resonating storytelling in The Walking Dead, following its success up with a myriad of licensed episodic adventures that excited and delighted purest point and clicker aficionados and casual newcomers alike.
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Tim Schafer followed up his 1993 classic Day of the Tentacle with the steely biker adventures of Full Throttle and the smooth classier than an Old Fashion cocktail Grim Fandango.
Point and click adventures have come on leaps and bounds since 1994 – the year Beyond A Steel Sky’s predecessor Beneath A Steel Sky was released.
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