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Summary: A must-buy
Review: I got this game ... and I have never played such an immersing and exciting game...now sitting in the dark playing a game never seems so 'sad'! I recommend you at least try the demo from [website] and see for yourself what I mean. It's the only game which has kept me interested and is still playable over a year after I bought it, and there is a community to match!
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Summary: Makes you sweat
Review: Nothing gets my blood flowing knowing that I have 10 seconds to wipe the logs on the computer and get out before the feds catch me. A great game in my opinion. The only problem with it is that you need to be quite good to get far. The other problem is the STUPID verification that you have to do each time you start a new account. On the back of the CD label there is a Hexadecimal grid with numbers and the games says it wants what is in Row A Column 6. This primitive anti-piracy feature is reminiscent of the days of "Lost Vikings". Other then that, if you can do well, you will get far. DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING THAT IS HACKING LOOKS LIKE. This is a crude representation.
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Summary: Awesome!!!
Review: Originally released only on the internet, this gem now comes to the US. Uplink strikes a great balance between action, in an obtuse manner, and gameplay. While the graphics are not top of the line, in fact there arent really special effects, they add to the mood of a grimy world overrun by robber barons of the 'Net. The game uses many features to create the perfect mood. A "trace tracker" which beeps will give you a sense of urgency. While hacking LANs, you will need skill and a little luck. Overall, I will recommend this game to anyone who has ever thought of being a hacker, but doesnt want to go to jail, and anyone who wants a not-so-flashy but excellant game. Well done Introversion. Well done.
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Summary: Must-buy
Review: RPGs bore you? Played all FP-Shooters over and over again?
Looking for something new? Uplink is your answer if you do....this gameplay has been never seen before, so don't worry about running into "just-another-remake" of a genre leader....
Uplink has no category. You can't put it in the "Simulation" stack of your local Games market next to Sim City and Gran Tourismo; it's a life of it's own, and will undoubtedly call up many followers. Just buy it.
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Summary: Uplink-A review
Review: Since Uplink-Hacker Elite, as it's called in the USA has just been released I thought it valid to write a review as I have had the game for a few months, being from Ireland and getting it during it's UK release. It's simple, you are a hacker, working through an online company, sub-contracted to various other countries to do jobs, from the simple, steal a file, to the more fun destroy a mainframe, frame someone, hacking a bank and many more. There is a plot but I'm not giving it away. Trust me and buy the game.
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Summary: Great Independant Game
Review: The basic premise is that you are a freelance hacker working through the Uplink Corporation. Uplink specializes in providing secure gateways through which hackers do their dirty work. In the event the hacker is tracked the gateway is lost, but the hacker remains hidden. Your task is to make money by successfully completing hacks for various corporations with which you can upgrade your gateway to open up new hacking opportunities. Eventually a true plot emerges and you end up fighting on the frontlines in the battle for the future of the internet. Being created by three bedroom programmers it lacks the high-end graphics and system killing effects of other games, but it is highly addictive and refreshingly original.
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Summary: A tedious process made fun.
Review: The game basically gives you missions. Once accepted, you're given a target and a basic outline of the goal. Maybe copy a file, delete one, or change some record. You set up a connection by clicking 'nodes' on a global map to make a complicated web of connections, giving you more time before you're traced. At one end of your connection maze is your computer, the other is the target. After connecting you see a username/password screen. Running a utility on this screen begins to break the password by trying various combinations of letters. This is when the action picks up. The instant you perform a suspicious act it is detected by the system, which initiates a trace on your connection. A direct connection is discovered instantly, and you're hit with a hefty fine, or in worse cases, game over. Since the game saves constantly, game over is the end; you must start over at the beginning. The trace-tracker application beeps faster and faster as the trace nears your system... the password breaker finishes and you are granted access, but are quickly running out of time to do what you came for. You start the file copy... beep-beep-beep, it gets faster... only a few seconds left... And so, you see what I mean. The game has a good storyline behind it as well as a well-detailed fake-net to play in. You can do pretty much anything you want to anybody, though doing these things risks getting caught. Occasionally I find myself going off an a grudge against one of the competing hackers that attempted to trace me down, editing his criminal record and getting him imprisoned for 10-15 years on computer fraud and destruction of propery. *evil grin* If you play too much, however, it's not all that hard to break the storyline, or one of the pending missions. MOre than once i've accepted a mission to destroy a computer, then another one (posted earlier) that asked me to retrieve a file from that system. The missions are NOT flexible, and must be accomplished to the letter. The interface, while slick, still lacks many of the refinements that we're used to seeing in windows. Text-boxes can only be modified by deleting everything in them back to the point that you wish to change, then replacing everything after. Tables don't sort when you click a column header, and the whole thing is a little sluggish due to a lack of proper utilization of directX acceleration and code optimization. There's an adequate tutorial to get you started, but extensive research on the forums was the only way that I could begin to delve farther into the game without being caught. The game is full of exploitable situations too. One, for example, is a mission where you track down some poor guy that stole 800 thousand dollars from his company, noticing afterward that the illegal funds are still there. A little bank job and you've got enough money to buy every single piece of software and hardware upgrade in the game, making hacking very easy. There are systems that never change their passwords or trace you, just begging to be the starting point of all your hacks so you can easily pop in later and delete the logs... Still, it is a catchy game that I play nearly daily. If you are even a little interested in hacking, and want a good thinking-man's game full of mystery and cloak & dagger, At the budget price, this game is for you. If you prefer action-packed shoot-em-ups and simple arcade-style games with little or no strategic thinking or instruction-reading required, then give it a miss.
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Summary: Innovation among imitators
Review: The timer ticks down, a few seconds left. The trace is beeping like crazy. You type in a flurry of keys and quickly disconnect JUST before you are actively traced. You go back to one of the servers and delete your logs to hide the tracks. Welcome to the world of uplink. The game is amazingly innovative: you do missions, gaining money, power, prestige, and the almighty powerful computer. This game combines the money management aspects of Mechwarrior 2: mercenaries, with the suspense of a hacker movie.
When I first saw the review for this game it seemed appealing, but too good to be true. It wasn't until I downloaded that demo that I realized how cool this game is. Each hacking mission is either a race against time, or a way to showpony your skills. This is one of the few games that gave me an adrenaline rush when I first played it. The only other games that have given the adrenaline rush are counter-strike and doom. The game is constantly tense, filled with suspense. The music for the game suits it very well. I choose to listen to the music rather than play my own. The various beeps, clicks, and dial-up sounds are great, and definitely add to the im-a-dangerous-hacker feel of the game. The game is very open ended. I am not a programmer, I am a gamer, and yet I love this game.
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Summary: A must have for gamers
Review: this game is basics simple and frustratingly hard. this combines timing, knowlegde, memory, and cunning. you hack banks, jails, companys, and people's homes and schools. this game is challenging and extreamly addictive. there is no way you can get tired of this game. there are so many places to hack you can never get them all
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Summary: A must have for gamers
Review: this game is basics simple and frustratingly hard. this combines timing, knowlegde, memory, and cunning. you hack banks, jails, companys, and people's homes and schools. this game is challenging and extreamly addictive. there is no way you can get tired of this game. there are so many places to hack you can never get them all
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