And when it comes to talking to the grandfather of the adventure game about his genre's future, passions run high. So why now choose to bring it to the iPhone? And why charge players for the privilege? By combining a mobile telephone, a map and a diary, we solved these puzzles and more at a meeting with the game's creator and MD of Revolution Software, Charles Cecil. Nine years after its original release in 1994, British developer Revolution Software released the game's source code as freeware, to be offered for free to all users of ScummVM, the popular adventure game emulator. While less iconic than some of the LucasArts big-hitters, it is nevertheless the most widely played adventure game of all time. And as a slew of LucasArts and Sierra classics make their way onto the Steam download service, just as Monkey Island introduces a new generation of console gamers to insult sword-fighting, the genre is enjoying, if not a resurrection, then certainly something of a resurgence.īeneath A Steel Sky (BASS) is the latest venerable adventure game to undergo a nip and a tuck in preparation for re-release. From Broken Sword 4 to Grim Fandango to Zack & Wiki, new releases in the genre may be sparse but they are undeniably steady. Long pronounced dead, the adventure game never really departed. His comic book, inspired by the game itself, is included to complete the content.If we had a new point-and-click adventure game for every time someone said: 'That was definitely the last point-and-click adventure game,' then we'd pretty much be where we are today.

Over 100 locations designed and art directed by award-winning comic book author Dave Gibbons (Watchmen fame). Maybe.įeaturing Revolution's Software innovative Virtual Theatre system, Beneath a Steel Sky is a gripping science fiction point and click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. Under the claustrophobic lid of a steel sky.įrom the pit of the industrial level to the belly of commercial sector, to the spheres where the rich and powerful play. All man's social problems are coming to a boil. and discover the sinister truth behind his abduction.

Alone, save for a robot circuit board, Foster must fight for survival. while the corrupt, covetous and rich lie underground, shielded from all pollution. Robert Foster is an innocent outsider stranded in a vast city where oppressed civilians live and work in soaring tower blocks.

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