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About the game
You play Robert Foster, who grew up in the Gap after a helicopter crash left him there as a child. Security forces from Union City raid his village and fly him to the city. When the helicopter crashes, Foster escapes and starts working his way down through the city, level by level, to learn who wanted him and why.
Along the way you're joined by Joey, a robot whose personality you carry around on a circuit board and put into new bodies. The game is known for its dry British humour and its grim, dystopian setting.
History
Directed by Charles Cecil at Revolution Software, with art by comic artist Dave Gibbons. It was the studio's second game on its Virtual Theatre engine, after Lure of the Temptress. The CD version added full voice acting.
In 2003 Revolution released it as freeware, and it became one of the first games officially offered with ScummVM. A remastered edition came out in 2009, and a sequel, Beyond a Steel Sky, followed in 2020.
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