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Developers are quickly catching on to the iPhone’s inherent strengths in the point-and-click adventure genre. Recent App Store releases like The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Simon the Sorcerer have resurrected some of the genre’s most memorable titles and adapted them to the iPhone’s touch-based interface.
Beneath a Steel Sky: Remastered Edition ($4.99) is the latest point-and-click adventure game to get the iPhone treatment. Originally released in 1994, the game puts players in control of a Robert Foster, a man orphaned at birth and raised by Aboriginal Australians in a dystopian future.
Comic book fans will note that the game’s cutscenes were drawn by Dave Gibbons, co-creator of DC’s Watchmen series. Gibbons returns for the Remastered Edition, contributing new animated sequences not found in the original game.
The Remastered Edition of Beneath a Steel Sky also includes a new context-sensitive help system, and features resampled voice clips and upgraded audio quality.
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