Luckily the game does have a Hint section that starts with a vague hint and works its way up to spelling out what to do next. ![]() Not exactly obvious I am sure you will agree. After a frustrating amount of toing and froing, this turned out to be because I had not asked the city holographic guide how to get there. I got stuck for quite a while as I could not work out how to get to a certain location as the monopod system gave me the option to go there but refused to take me. Although topics grey out when conversations have run their course it is still possible to accidentally ask the same thing over and over again. Talking to people is the main task for the majority of the game and can become pretty tiresome due to the sheer amount of questions that you have to do. No free exploration is offered and generally, you can be restricted to your current location until you have completed certain objectives.īeing a point and click adventure it is a matter of examining everything around you that you are allowed to interact with and working out how to use items to your advantage. Union City is sold to the player as a vast megacity so it is a shame that most of the action takes place in a relatively small number of locations that are only accessible via the monopod system. ![]() The population is supposedly happy and content but where are Milo and the other missing children that have been transported through the city gates? Robert sets out to investigate, as will those who choose to play the game.Īfter playing a lengthy section before the opening titles I was treated to an introductory tour of the city via a Monopod while they played out. Joey is missing and no one knows where he has gone, while the control has been handed to a bunch of powerful councillors. When he eventually does get inside the city (which is so long-winded I would have given up on the child and gone home) things turn out to be not quite as they appear. Having followed the tracks to the outskirts of ‘Union City’ Robert comes across the dead body of a sanitation worker called Graham Grundy and soon realises that the only way to get into the heavily defended city is to assume his identity. The art style then changes to a 3D cell-shaded art style reminiscent of ‘Borderlands’. Robert has a very strong yet unexplained connection to the child so he sets off to rescue him. Faceless cyborgs emerge to grab the child and the machine heads off into the wastelands. Robert is fishing with a friend and his son Milo when a giant mechanical creature rears up out of the sea. Like the original game, the back story is told via the medium of a graphic novel. Let’s grab a fresh can of Spankles and explore a megacity in the Xbo圎ra review of Beyond a Steel Sky.ĭeveloped by Revolution Software the game is described as a Cyberpunk science fiction adventure from legendary comic book artist Dave Gibbons and creator of the ‘Broken Sword’ series Charles Cecil. I did not play the original game but I am sure everything is just fine…. ![]() ![]() Set ten years after the events of ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’, Robert Foster is finally returning to the Union City that he left in the hands of his sentient robot best friend Joey. You can check out the new Beyond a Steel Sky console trailer below.Obviously, it could never happen in reality but due to environmental disasters and human conflict, the residents of future earth live either in giant cities or the ravaged wastelands known as the Gap. Pre-ordering will grant access to a Foster Enamel Pin, a digital artbook, and two digital comic books from Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons. Strange AI-driven androids, tricky puzzles, and a tale of loyalty and redemption will also feature in Beyond a Steel Sky, when it launches for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch on 30th November 2021. The follow-up will take you back to the dystopian cyberpunk world of Union City ten years on from the events of the original, where another web of mystery awaits. Set to be publisher by Microids, the long-awaited sequel to the 1994 sci-fi adventure (Beneath a Steel Sky) will pick up with protagonist Robert Foster, on the hunt for an abducted child. Broken Sword studio Revolution Software has confirmed that Beyond a Steel Sky is now set to release for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, in addition to the previously announced Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch versions.
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