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Reich, and finally ditch the factory in favour of Union City itself. We then jump to the next room and tangle with the commander of LINC security, a certain S. In this case we need Joeys help to find a way out of the factory, and after much (much!) persuading he eventually agrees and comes up with a 'fix it' solution. He can communicate, operate things, fetch and carry items and generally provide a huge dose of light comic relief. Robert only has one item of any use - the circuit board of a friendly robot known as Joey - and it isn't long before we cobble a few bits of twisted metal together and make ourselves a new mechanical pal.

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Having figured out how to get past the guard, we are free to explore a little. Now the game takes over as we are left with our first puzzle - how the heck do we escape this platform, this factory, and indeed - this city? The security guard scratches his head, but elects to wait right there in case Foster should reappear. He's trapped! He sees LINC security rush in and question a mechanic who happens to work there. We see Rob scramble up a flight to steep metal steps onto a raised platform with a broken fire exit. But it crashes, Robert escapes the wreckage, and hides in the nearest building which happens to be a heavy machinery processing plant. We see the helicopter glide over the smog of the city, rapidly taking our hero to face an uncertain future. Fortunately, Robert is able to crash the helicopter as it makes it's final approach - and this is where the introduction animation of the game takes over the story from the original Dave Gibbons graphic featurette. Years later, Foster - now in his adulthood - is picked up by LINC security and flown by helicopter back to Union. One day, a tribal elder finds an escapee of Union, a baby, next the remains of a famous 'amber nectar' beer container, and from then on he is known as Robert 'Foster'. Several people have escaped Union City to the relative anonymity of The Gap (a wilderness formerly known as 'The Bush'), but are usualy tracked down and terminated by operatives of LINC. Sydney is now knows as Union City, and is a vast sprawling mass controlled by it's central computer, LINC (short for 'Logical Inter-Neural Connection') which doesn't seem to be an overly friendly towards it's inhabitants. In basic terms, the story is set in a futuristic cyberpunk land formerly known as Australia. The back-story of BASS is long and complex.

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A CD version of BOSS was also designed and released at the same time as the disk version, and featured professional voice acting by the likes of Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies) and Adam Henderson (who went on to play Fuppie in the Judge Dredd movie the following year).

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The team, lead by Dave Cummins (who designed, scripted and even scored the music for the game), took two years to produce the game, and worked extensively with Dave Gibbons (best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen) who hand drew the backgrounds and even part of the manual.

The success of it's first graphic adventure, Lure of the Temptress which used the unique 'Virtual Theatre' system resulted in Revolutions decision to press on with the development of VT by designing a game six times larger than LOTT, and which would make use of a new Virtual Theatre v2 environment. Originally signed to Mirrorsoft in 1990, Revolution 'jumped ship' after Mirrorsofts owner, Robert Maxwell, took a one way boat trip - and ended up on the Virgin label.