Genre: AdventureDeveloper: Revolution SoftwareYear: 1994
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I'm not a huge adventure games fan, but I always recognize a great game when I see one. Let me introduce one of my personal top 5 favorite adventures of all times.
In this cyberpunk thriller you'll be thrown (or rather crash-land) in Union City, a huge city-state dominated by an artificial personality called LINC. For no apparent reason you were chased and "arrested" in your home land (in the wilderness outside the city), but you managed to escape out of luck. Now you're stuck in this strange metropolis, trying to stay alive while the guards keep saying you're a dangerous man called Overmann, of whom you know nothing about. A lot of mistery to start with. A lot of mistery is to be unfold, and the story takes great proportions mid-way through.
Beneath a steel sky is not yet another matter of pointing and clicking on items to take and use them in the most obvious ways, following "hints" given by the many characters in the game. The items are still there, the characters too. Only this time you're pretty much on your own. Union City is a huge bureaucratic mess, and the characters are not set out to be helpful. Instead they play the perfect roles of dodgy public bureaucrats who get out of their ways to escape from being of any service to anyone. The only thing you can count on is that they'll always leave you be no matter how many strange questions you ask, because they don't really care, and they usually choose not to take part in anything.
The atmosphere of BASS is fantastic. Union City is a booming and decaying metropolis which reminds me of London in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four. Graphics are simply beautiful. Another innovation, non-player characters more or less follow their own agenda, so some of them are not always in the same places. Mix that with humorous characters like Joey the robot, who accompanies you through most of the game, and many others, and you're in for many hours of fun.
Sadly this is the floppy version of the game, which doesn't feature the voice acting. The original voice acting in this game is another highlight. Most bureaucrats have british accent, an obvious joke from the designers of the game, and the lines of all characters in the game are even funnier with voice (specially the main characters).
Since this game has many qualities, it will fit the expectations of many. Gamers that enjoy adventure games, challenging games, humorous games, cyberpunk, nice graphics and music, all of you, pay attention to this one.
