Initially hoping only to escape, Foster soon seeks to uncover the corruption that lies at the city’s very core.īASS’s cult popularity stems from its original plot, which is worlds away from the traditional fairy tale staples on which Revolution’s first game, Lure of the Temptress, was based. As their helicopter approaches the city, the flight is mysteriously sabotaged, allowing Robert to flee his captors. But in a gripping comic book-style introduction, featuring the work of Dave Gibbons (the artist behind Watchmen), armed security officers arrive to take Robert back. Stranded in the Gap as a boy, Robert has gradually adjusted to his life in the wilderness. In this third-person adventure, the gamer assumes the role of Robert Foster. Set in a futuristic environment, BASS pushes our fears to their most chilling logical conclusion - a totalitarian society in which humans have become slaves to progress.īeneath a Steel Sky is set in an age of technology, where populations are packed into huge industrial cities, and only outcasts live beyond the metropolis, in a bleak wasteland known as the Gap (not The Gap you understand, as there isn’t a shred of denim in sight). The world has become increasingly dependent upon computer technology, but what if this dependency is abused? This is the premise at the heart of Revolution’s 1994 release, Beneath a Steel Sky. Decades later, researchers have proved that our reliance on credit and store loyalty cards, mobile phones and computers could allow our day-to-day lives to be monitored in minute detail. In 1948, George Orwell wrote his dystopian masterpiece, 1984, about a society whose citizens were under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police.
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