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Beneath A Steel SkyBeneath a Steel Sky is a science fiction, more specifically cyberpunk, point and click adventure game with comedy elements, created by Revolution Software, and initially released in 1994 for DOS and Amiga. The game's backgrounds, and a promotional comic book were designed by Dave Gibbons. The game takes place at an unknown time in the future, where the earth has presumably been devastated by pollution or nuclear radiation and the majority of mankind (that we know of) is forced to live in domed cities. A young man who has lived in the wastelands is captured by stormtroopers from "Union City", which is completely administered by an all-powerful computer called LINC. This man, whose name is Robert Foster, manages to escape from his captors as the helicopter transporting him crashes just after entering the dome, leaving him and his robot friend, Joey, to find out why they were brought there and where to go next. Joey has a unique survivability and adaptibility since his entire personality is stored on a removable circuit board, which can be easily inserted in many types of robots. This allows Joey to change bodies as the situation warrents, provided the circuit board isn't damaged. Joey, however, is not always happy about Robert's choice of body for him. The society of the city (possibly located in Australia) is a cross between Terry Gilliam's Brazil and George Orwell's 1984. The computer system featured in the game, LINC, may refer to the Laboratory Instrument Computer. In August 2003, the game was released as freeware and support for it was added to ScummVM, allowing it to be played on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows CE and other compatible operating systems. The datafiles for both the disk and CD version are available from the ScummVM website. In 2004, a sequel to Beneath a Steel Sky was announced. Not much information is available yet, apart from the fact that it will be in 3D. External links
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