In classic Charles Cecil style, there is lots of wit and charm in the writing. You don’t get enough time to explore them or become too invested in them. Most of the game's humour comes from these additional characters you meet, but they are merely moments in passing.
Most actors do a great job with the well written script, and the accents and voice acting make the game feel authentic and even wholesome at times. There will likely be a character that resonates with you. There is a little something for everyone a dramatic teenager, a poetry loving robot, a smelly truck driver, even a strange underground tech guy. The characters in Beyond are well written and diverse. A twist I didn’t see coming, but I won’t spoil any of the story here. While the story is rather linear, it isn’t boring and there was a moment where I literally said ‘what?!’ out loud. The story is engaging and you’ll never really forget what you are doing. The destination, not the journey, matters. At points you feel like your choices matter, and at other times it doesn’t seem to make a difference as long as you eventually get to the location it needs you to get to. The info you gather determines where you need to go next and helps you solve the puzzles that you use to navigate your way through Union City. One negative to the story writing in this regard is that sometimes multiple questions will give you the same information. There are numerous options to each conversation, and although Foster can end conversations at any time, I would recommend you explore and exhaust all questions to get as much info as you can. The system is fascinating, and the game could have spent more time exploring it, but it is simply something you refer to while moving through the story.įoster must gather information from dialogue choices you make while having conversations with a multitude of characters. All Qdos can be accessed through the aforementioned brooch that all citizens wear. Your status determines the types of jobs you can have and what places you are allowed to access in the city, an obvious class system. The higher your Qdos, the higher your standing.
Qdos tracks everything they do their happiness, comfort, charitable actions, etc, and determines their status or standing, in the city.
The Council uses a system called Qdos to track and control the citizens of Union City. Something is obviously ‘off’ with this, and you will eventually unravel the secrets. The Council has members in charge of different things for the city, like the Minister of Well Being, The Minister of Comfort, etc. There are lots of references and statues to Joey in and around Union City and most people talk about him with a sort of reverence bordering on religion. Foster’s best friend, Joey, used to run Union City until he handed the keys over to a mysterious Council that takes care of everything now. There is a travel system to whisk you away anywhere you need to go.
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Union City is a cyberpunk utopia full of large skyscrapers, lots of electronic billboards with advertising and rules, robots and holographic assistants are prevalent. The man had a full life in the city, including a wife who is very willing to go along with Foster’s charade. En route to Union City, Foster finds a dead man on the road, he takes his brooch and assumes this man’s identity to access the city boundaries. Like any good game, the kidnapping is only part of a darker story and secret that the city is hiding. He must return to Union City while searching for a child named Milo who has been kidnapped from his village. It’s simple control system works well on consoles.īeyond A Steel Sky sees our protagonist Robert Foster living in The Gap, the wasteland/desert outside of Union City.
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Unlike its predecessor, this game is no longer a point and click game, and is a fully flushed out, free moving 3D adventure game. While there are a few references to the original story, Beyond a Steel Sky is more of a spiritual successor to the original than a direct sequel, 27 years in the making, set 10 years after the events of Beneath. Since I hadn’t played Beneath a Steel Sky, I did watch a primer to get some background info and Beyond does give you a bit of an overview before you start, so I had a basic understanding of the story line thus far. It was a concern I had before taking on the review of this game by Revolution Software. Despite being a sequel, you don’t need to have knowledge of Beneath a Steel Sky (published in 1994 on PC) to play and understand Beyond a Steel Sky.
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