Beneath a Steel Sky

Average puzzles but an amazing style

User Rating: 7.3 | Beneath a Steel Sky PC

By euchrid | Review Date: February 27, 2006

Beneath a Steel Sky is not the greatest adventure game ever released but it is one of the most attractive and immersive of it's generation, and is notable for being one of the genre's few hits not created using Lucasart's SCUMM engine.

The gameplay suffers from a number of illogical puzzles and the capacity for the character to be killed, a positively archaic impediment to exploration even at time of release. All is (almost) forgiven, however, due to the brilliantly realised and detailed science fiction setting. Locations and characters ooze style, and the presentation of it's dystopic, Orwellian future is one of the finest in the adventure genre's catalogue.

Also notable is the work done on the game by graphic novel legend Dave Gibbons (artist on Alan Moore's Watchmen), who designed several of the in-game locations as well as a promotional comic book which shipped with some releases of the game.

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