
The iPhone version introduces a touch-based interface, new animated movies by Dave Gibbons, a context-sensitive hint system and a remastered audio track. Otherwise, the engine provides traditional point-and-click adventure gameplay. The game uses the Virtual Theatre engine from Lure of the Temptress, which allows its characters to move freely independent of the player's input, making the game world more dynamic than it is usually the case in comparable games. After a narrow escape from the helicopter bringing him there as it inexplicably crashes, Robert and his droid Joey must search the decaying city, attempting to befriend both the snobby rich and the frustrated poor as the two attempt to get out of the city, but in the middle of everything they uncover the dark truth about LINC, the bizarre computer which makes the city tick. When Robert Foster's Gap-dwelling tribe is killed by soldiers from Union City who capture him, everything changes for him.

Limited Edition SteelBook featuring comic artwork by Dave Gibbonsĭigital Original Soundtrack Game Features Beyond a Steel Sky is a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic world that responds to – and is subverted by – the player’s actions.īeyond A Steel Sky: Beyond A SteelBook Edition Includes: Fortified and impenetrable, it is a utopia in which people live happily under the surveillance and control of a benign AI.

But the trail has led you from your community of desert wasteland dwellers to Union City, one of the last remaining mega-cities in a world ravaged by shattering wars and political meltdown. You are Robert Foster, who has vowed to bring a child back home after they were brutally attacked. From Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind Watchmen, comes Beyond a Steel Sky, the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic Beneath a Steel Sky.
