The inventory is reached by moving your mouse to the top of the screen. You left mouse click to examine items, and right mouse click to trigger actions. The easy to use interface means that you face little distraction during the game, and hence you feel more a part of it. In some rooms you directly feel the effects in the pit of your stomach, and this can put you quite on edge. In particular it is clever how the musical score and sound effects make good use of low pitched sound to increase the sense of unease. The music is not the best you've ever heard, but it does work well to add to the tension and feel of the game. Interacting with the characters is realistic and draws you further into this world. The characters are warm and engaging and their speech completes their characterisation. It is now your task to find out why he was kidnapped and keep him safe.ĭespite the games dark storyline and brooding atmospheric graphics, the game is full of humour. Before Robert knows why he has been kidnapped his helicopter crashes in the city and he makes a bid for freedom. The action is confined to Australia within a totalitarian city state called Union City, and you play Robert Foster who has just been kidnapped from an area outside the city known as the Gap. It is set in a dystopian future where man has damaged the earth. It uses the Virtual Theatre engine which was first used in Lure of the Temptress and among other things allows the non-player characters to have a basic level of artificial intelligence. It was received well and has gone on to be considered a cult classic. Beneath a Steel Sky was released for the PC in 1994 by Revolution Software.
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