

From this point, your task is to survive life in the City which is covered by a huge steel dome (thus, the title), defeat the evil forces of Security (one of two vast corporations vying for industrial supremacy) and discover who you really are. What's Old Is New Again Beyond A Steel Sky is a sequel to Beneath A Steel Sky, a 1994 MS-DOS point-and-click adventure, in which you play as Beyond A Steel Sky's main. Once again the helicopter crashes and you survive, escaping from your captors to the top floor of the Security HQ building, with only the circuitboard of your trusty robot, Joey for help. Beyond A Steel Sky looks to take what was best from the golden era of the genre and brings it to 2020 with a fresh coat of paint and some pretty smart gameplay conventions.

Life is good until another group of bad guys from the City, known only as Security, rip your world apart by killing your adoptive family and transporting you by helicopter (what else?) back to the City. You are adopted by a group of Outsiders (aptly named because they have no access to the City in this futuristic postapocalyptic tale) who raise you for twenty years in a location known as the Gap. At the age of six on your first trip out of the City, the helicopter you're in crashes, killing your mother. The odds are definitely stacked against your character, Robert Foster, from the beginning of Virgin's comic/drama Beneath a Steel Sky.
