You've got your best friend Joey, a robot moved from one shell(and he can use abilities of his current one to aid you) to the next, such as when one is destroyed. That in spite of the fact that you can save(and load) anywhere, anytime, outside of "conversations" and such. Arguably, it does get excessively difficult near the end, and it definitely is too easy to die in this. You start at the top of a building having to make your way down to ground level, with the separate floors being like social classes, and as you progress, it increasingly opens up, since you can(heck, you have to) often go back to areas you've already been to, for further challenge. There is a tremendous amount of detail, and you believe that the computers, manufacturing machines, etc. The graphics are great, with natural-looking movement animations and dynamic backgrounds, such as mechanical equipment that may well be running on a loop. He was chosen because the developer was a fan of the novel. Part of the reason is that art and plot were done by Dave Gibbons, who co-created Watchmen(!). The few cutscenes are like reading a comic book, with panels, and it's mostly "still", just going to different frames when necessary rather than trying to fit it all into the typical in-engine stuff. You seem to be connected to it, too This opens with something of an exposition dump, but it's also absorbing and drenched in atmosphere from right away. One way or another, you have to get to the bottom of what's going on. You were apprehended by security officers who show immediately they mean business(I won't give away how), but they put you on a chopper and it doesn't land on its feet. You are Robert Foster(yes, named after the beer), having grown up in the care of Aboriginals in the wasteland that is The Gap(I guess the store really took a turn for the worse) where you were abandoned, and now taken back to "civilization", to find that it is a 1984-ish Cyberpunk nightmare. The "Euro-American War" has ended, and Union City, which you spend most of this trying to get back out of, has removed all labor rights. The nature of this dystopia is hampered by pollution and/or nuclear fallout.
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