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The environments are quite nice to look at and the major characters have solid models with a strong art style. There is also a trophy for not using it to incentivise trying.Īt least you can look at some quite pleasing visuals as you walk around, stuck.
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It starts off with hints but will eventually just tell you what to do which is nice as point and clicks aren’t always the most intuitive things and fans of the genre will be used to poking around unsure of what to do. If you do get too stuck there is a hint system in place which is on a cooldown so you don’t just spam it and actually try to solve things yourself. It takes some getting used to but as it happens so often you do get the hang of it and adjust your thinking. The machines you hack need to be within a certain range and quite regularly you’ll need to wait for a robot to move into range before interacting with it to swap rules with a stationary object. It can be quite fun taking the aggressive voice of a security robot and swapping it with the excited voice of a sales robot but the thing is these robots move around so making the connection that you need to hack these two things at the same time can be a bit of a leap. You can also hack multiple things at once, which will allow you to take rules from one machine and swap it with another. The thing is it gets a lot more complicated than that. There will be elements of these rules that you can swap so if you can’t open a door you can make it so that when you’re denied access the door opens. When you interact with an item however the hacking screen appears which shows simplified rules, like if you press a button the door opens or when the water is empty to refill it. Robert takes out his hacking tool and then as he walks around things he can interact with will highlight as they do normally. There are even some straight up puzzles rather than using the right item in the spot at the right time, though these aren’t too common. This could be accessing information through a broken screen or trying to gain a badge so you can access a certain area of a museum. You’ll need to use items in the correct places in order to achieve whatever it is you’re trying to do at that moment. There’s no item combining here so things don’t get too complicated in that regard but Robert does gain a hacking tool which can take some time to get your head around. You’ll walk around reasonably sized environments and, much like a point and click game, see what you can interact with, pick up what you can and make a note of where you can use items for later when you’ve found the appropriate maguffin. You never get a huge amount so it’s not a massive problem but there is probably a more streamlined approach. It’s a slower paced game so it’s responsive enough but using items from your inventory can be a little clumsy as you scroll through them all. When interacting with someone you get similar options but can choose to talk to them as well. Usually this will be to inspect or interact with the object or, if it’s an option then you can use an item from your inventory. Press on the item and your options will pop up. You control Robert directly and as you approach things and point the camera in their direction they’ll highlight much as they would have in the old style. Its roots are in the point and click adventure genre but you don’t control a cursor here. He’ll meet old acquaintances and discover just how much has changed in his time away. Robert being the resourceful man that he is follows the tracks which leads him back to where his first adventure took place, Union City. He goes fishing with a friend and his friend’s son but the son is kidnapped and taken away in a giant, four legged vehicle. A comic book style intro shows Robert hanging out with a tribe in the Gap one last time before moving on.
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I do own it on Steam but when I saw Beyond a Steel Sky was made by Revolution Software as a big Broken Sword fan back in the day I had to check it out.īeyond is a direct sequel to Beneath, following the story of Robert Foster.
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Novemin PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d / a steel sky / beneath / beyond / broken sword / point and click / revolution software / sci fi by Garethīeneath a Steel Sky is a classic point and click adventure, but I’ve not played it.