You start pondering why there are advertisements at all given they're issuing cans for free, anyway. The Spankles mascot - a nightmarish hybrid of Ronald McDonald and the terrifying clown from Poltergeist that haunted my early years - leers at you from. Availability: Out now on PC and iOS as part of Apple Arcade.Īnd then you'll spot another ad."A benevolent government that gives away free refreshments? I'm in!" Beyond a Steel Sky review "Wow!", you think, dispensing a can for gratis for the first time. Even before you breach Union City's walls, there's a kiosk giving away free cans of the stuff - actually, there's a lot of vending machines that give away the stuff. It's the insidiousness of Spankles that bothers me at first. Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is also creating a game called Fantasia for Apple Arcade.Handsome visuals can't quite make up for bugs and a lack of urgency. Other games heading to Apple Arcade include indie gems Where Cards Fall, The Pathless and Hot Lava. There's no word on price or an exact launch date, though the entire thing is due to land this fall. Beyond a Steel Sky apparently deals with the battle for privacy and the overwhelming control that corporations exert on society.Īpple Arcade is the company's new approach to mobile, Mac and living-room gaming, offering a subscription for users to access a curated selection of high-quality games.
Series protagonist and engineer Robert Foster is back, but this time he's fighting the artificial intelligence system that went live at the end of the first title. According to Variety, it follows the story of the original game, which presented a future Earth, ravaged by climate change or some other form of man-made devastation. Gibbons is a legendary graphic-novel artist best known for collaborating with Alan Moore on Watchmen, while Cecil is a co-founder of Broken Sword and Beneath a Steel Sky studio, Revolution Software.īeyond a Steel Sky is a 3D game with a comic-book style overlay, fusing Gibbons' aesthetic with the gaming world. Beyond a Steel Sky will hit Apple Arcade later this year, coming directly from original creators Charles Cecil and Dave Gibbons. One of the most iconic cyberpunk games of the '90s and early-2000s, a point-and-click adventure called Beneath a Steel Sky, is finally getting a follow-up.
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