What will Robert Foster find in Union City?
Revolution Software
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The much-anticipated Beyond a Steel Sky from Revolution Software has at long last joined 's library of over this week. First announced during the launch of Apple's $4.99-a-month mobile gaming subscription service, the sequel takes place 10 years after the events of 1994's Beneath a Steel Sky, which came to mobile in 2009.
The original Beneath a Steel Sky is a much-loved classic, a cyberpunk science-fiction point-and-click adventure game, in which you play as Robert Foster, tour bali who is trying to survive in a dystopian future society. In the new sequel, Foster returns to Union City after learning a child has been abducted.
Revolution Software co-founder Charles Cecil and comic book artist Dave Gibbons spoke with CNET about their teamwork on the new game. Gibbons -- perhaps best known as the artist behind the original Watchmen comics -- said the duo has come a long way from the pixelated sprite-like characters and hand-painted backgrounds of its predecessor.
"It's a game that Dave and I have been dreaming up for 26 years," Cecil says.
The new game is styled like a comic book, down to the closed captions and Foster's narration. The characters are drawn like those found in Telltale games, of which Cecil and Gibbons are both fans. Players are immediately dropped into the highly explorable world with half a dozen ways to talk to each character they encounter, and ultimately impact the environment with their decisions.
