![]() ![]() Even the best characters, like Joey, Robert's snarky robot buddy (based on a circuit board that you carry around) and gets several new bodies over the course of the game, gets a rather disappointing personality change by the end of the game. Sadly, the story starts out good but gets predictable in the third act of the game (you'll know what I mean) and the characters are memorable but somewhat underwritten. The puzzles aren't terribly obtuse, the music is good (I actually think it sounds better without a good soundcard-though you can download a music enhancement package) and has both decent writing and voice acting (both of which are relatively uncommon in themselves, especially in that era). Normally these are sub-par, but BASS comes close to it. It's a point and click adventure game, similar to the LucasArts games. Hobbins doesn't care much for Rob's robot. IPM (RAW)" ("WARM PISS") probably due to copyright rules, but also messing up why Foster was named as such (possibly the only video game protagonist named after a real beer brand). release, which changes the "Foster's" beer brand to "S.S. By the way, the video is from the original U.S. From a helicopter crash similar to what got him orphaned and stuck in the Gap in the first place (see the intro video, with panels drawn by famed artist Dave Gibbons, creator of Watchmen). Now considered a cult classic in adventure games, BASS takes place in a futuristic dystopian Australia, wherein one Robert Foster is taken from his home from "The Gap" and taken to Union City, one of the mega-cities in economic war with other mega-cities in the continent. DOS, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, iOS (see below)īeneath a Steel Sky was one of the free GOG.com games (it was re-released as freeware by its developers several years ago), joining the likes of games like TeenAgent (which is vastly inferior but still enjoyable). ![]()
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