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Revolution Software Announces Beyond A Steel Sky

This morning as Apple was showing off Apple arcade, we got a preview of a game coming to the service called Beyond A Steel Sky. According to the press release sent out after the presentation, this will be the long-awaited follow-up to the '90s dystopian cyberpunk adventure Beneath a Steel Sky, with legendary comic book artist Dave Gibbons behind the artwork. The brief description of the game says it will be a "thrilling story of loyalty and redemption set in an eery and terrifying world of AI-driven social controls". Here's more info and quotes from the press release, and hopefully we'll see more come E3 2019.

"Even after so many years, fans of the original game are still incredibly loyal and very passionate – and have remained vocal in demanding a sequel" says Charles Cecil, Founder and CEO of Revolution Software. "Adventure games are played by a large, diverse audience that hugely enjoys the interweaving of story and puzzles. Our approach has been to write an intelligent, witty adventure game that is wholly intuitive to play and assumes no prior knowledge of the original game or its universe. We aspire to write a modern day 1984 told through the medium of the adventure game".

It's a project that's been on the minds of both Cecil and Gibbons for many years, but one they felt needed the right real world moment to to it justice.

"Charles and I have discussed returning to the Beneath a Steel Sky universe many times over the years. Fake news, social controls, polarized views – the world is confusing – we agreed that now was the right time for Robert Foster to take a trip back to and beyond that Steel Sky," adds Dave Gibbons. "I am delighted to be working with Revolution again".

Beyond a Steel Sky is a hugely ambitious adventure in which intelligent, humorous emergent gameplay drives an edgy narrative. Very much an adventure, the game is set in a dynamic, bounded-sandbox world. A unique world that will respond to – and be subverted by – the player's actions. The game characters, driven by advanced AI tech, are willful and motivated: their intelligent responses allow interesting, emergent solutions to puzzles and obstacles. The culmination of Revolution's 30 years of developing adventure games, Beyond a Steel Sky evolves and redefines the adventure genre.

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