Posted February 08, 2009
It's games, and websites like this that make me remember fondly of the older games industry. The period from the mid eighties to the mid nineties was the golden age of gaming. Games were fun, risky and above all original. This title from 1994 is no exception. Taking an original story, Revolution crafted a fine stepping stone to bigger and better things later on.
It was clear from day one that Revolution wanted to steal the mantle of "best adventure game maker" from Lucasarts. While today in 2009, they have achieved that aim, sadly it was only by default as Lucasarts stupidly decided to quit making that style of game due to the lack adventure game sales. The idiot generation just couldn't get these type of games. Apparently, having to think about solving complex puzzles without shooting someone violently every five seconds was just to hard so the gaming market in general has suffered as a consequence when you look at the cookie cutter, generic, unoriginal shit that gets churned out today.
The follow up the the moderately successful Lure Of The Temptress, Beneath A Steel Sky was a worthy successor to that game. It was well written, excellently drawn and a well thought out puzzler. It's real main issue stems from it's awful shortness. In a time when adventure games were long and sprawling, this was a short affair at best. I remember playing this when it first came out in 1994, I even still have the original box and discs! The games briefness was my main issue then and it's my main issue now.
While in retrospect it towers above most of the modern games of today, it still feel somewhat short of the mark considering the opposition games of the day, namely Lucasarts adventures. That by no means is a bad thing. The Lucasarts adventures were and still are the unreachable high mark of the genre. But BASS did something that no other adventure game did in it's day. Come close to Lucasarts.
If you are in that idiot younger generation that needs to shoot people constantly in games, you owe it to yourself to play this game, it's an important title in game history. (But you probably don't care about that). And if your an older gamer, like me. You owe it to yourself to relive one of the better games of your childhood.
It was clear from day one that Revolution wanted to steal the mantle of "best adventure game maker" from Lucasarts. While today in 2009, they have achieved that aim, sadly it was only by default as Lucasarts stupidly decided to quit making that style of game due to the lack adventure game sales. The idiot generation just couldn't get these type of games. Apparently, having to think about solving complex puzzles without shooting someone violently every five seconds was just to hard so the gaming market in general has suffered as a consequence when you look at the cookie cutter, generic, unoriginal shit that gets churned out today.
The follow up the the moderately successful Lure Of The Temptress, Beneath A Steel Sky was a worthy successor to that game. It was well written, excellently drawn and a well thought out puzzler. It's real main issue stems from it's awful shortness. In a time when adventure games were long and sprawling, this was a short affair at best. I remember playing this when it first came out in 1994, I even still have the original box and discs! The games briefness was my main issue then and it's my main issue now.
While in retrospect it towers above most of the modern games of today, it still feel somewhat short of the mark considering the opposition games of the day, namely Lucasarts adventures. That by no means is a bad thing. The Lucasarts adventures were and still are the unreachable high mark of the genre. But BASS did something that no other adventure game did in it's day. Come close to Lucasarts.
If you are in that idiot younger generation that needs to shoot people constantly in games, you owe it to yourself to play this game, it's an important title in game history. (But you probably don't care about that). And if your an older gamer, like me. You owe it to yourself to relive one of the better games of your childhood.
