Beneath a Steel Sky on the Amiga - the original and the best
Posted by Super Turrican on Jul 4, 2010 14:31 (Jul 4, 2010 14:31)
Remember the days when long cassette loading times were replaced by mammoth floppy disk installations? If you can’t you could always grab an Amiga from somewhere and play this. This was up there with the best of them in terms of just how much data you needed to sift through to play it (all the more crazy considering you can download it on an iPod now).
Fifteen disks were needed to help Robert Foster and his robotic sidekick, Joey to escape from Union City after crash landing there whilst on a helicopter transport. This was what Revolution Software gave us before the much loved Broken Sword and after the impressive Lure of the Temptress and what it did was show that there were others out there that could play Lucasarts at their own game.
Sumptuous hand drawn backgrounds mixed with nicely drawn sprites created a world rich with colour and imagination, as well as a nicely thought out story with some of those fiendish puzzles that were hard, but would never beat the Broken Sword goat for difficulty.
As with all of the games of this genre, Steel Sky had humour in abundance, with the William Anchor gag bearing more fruit with the players now that they’ve matured, although the resulting snigger may not be nowadays.
For those who could put up with the disk swapping and/or long HD install they would receive a very nice and well made reward. It showed that the Commodore was just as good a place for the point and click adventure as the PC ever was. It’s only 59p to download onto your well known portable music thingy and is a steal, considering just how much gaming you get for that amount.
