Miss a day at work and your Qdos level might drop, barring you access to some of the city's more lavish entertainments. While Union is blessed with plenty -there is no apparent poverty or crime- citizens are encouraged to boost their 'Qdos' level by working hard at their assigned jobs and performing good deeds. A forest of gold-tinged buildings, neon signage and digital advertisements bawling at its residents to aspire and consume.
Under the stewardship of Foster's robotic pal Joey, it has become a gleaming utopia. One of the most fascinating things about this long-awaited sequel is that Beyond A Steel Sky nails its 2020 relevance by flipping Union City on its head.
Forged in a post Cold War world, Robert Foster's journey was -for all its light-hearted humour- a reflection of socio-economic peril. Revolution's classic 1994 point-and-click adventure Beneath A Steel Sky saw you trawling the underbelly of a dystopian sci-fi city to uncover its grand conspiracy.
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