Uplink: Hacker Elite

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Summary: A different kind of game
Review: This game is probably best classified as a Hacking-Sim. As far as I can tell, it does a very good job of simulating the experience, even the tension of getting caught. As for advertising, computer game magazines have given it good reviews. Computer Gaming World gave it 4 out of 5 stars. ... I highly recommend you try the game.

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Summary: Really Cool!
Review: This game is really, really cool! For starters, it's pretty easy to get used to. Secondly, it's fun. The game's nerve-racking tension gets higher and higher as your Trace Viewer (You'll have to buy that at the start of the game for virtual-money) bleeps and tells you that someone is 87% hacking you. Anyways, buy this game. It's fun and will keep you occupied for hours on end.

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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: Unique, suspenseful, and exciting.

Ahhh, Uplink. Another one of those games that most people have never heard of. And if you haven't heard of it, and you are looking for an exciting and unique simulation, then you have been missing out. Uplink: Hacker Elite isn't just the only game of its kind. It is also an excellent game.

The game has a basic premise. You are a freelance hacker in the year 2010, free to commit all sorts of cyber crimes however you would like. It's kind of like Grand Theft Auto in cyberspace. It is executed very well. The simulation never gets "out of character", so to speak. The start game screen isn't even a typical start game screen - it's a "login" screen onto the game's virtual network.

What this game does a great job of doing is giving you a feeling of mischief that comes from poking your nose into places it is not supposed to be. You accept jobs off of a bulletin board, sabotaging corporate data, breaking into banks, and doing other assorted dirty deeds. You break into secure systems by hacking passwords, disabling firewalls, and other methods, and then work as fast as you can before you are traced. It's very exciting, and it gives you a devious pleasure when you successfully sabotage a company's files.

"Uplink: Hacker Elite" has all sorts of different things to explore. Did you get caught and get yourself a criminal record? Hack into the criminal database and erase it! Are you going to destroy a corporate database? Buy the stock of the company's competitor and make some money off of it. You have to either experiment and figure this stuff out for yourself, or use a walkthrough from the internet. The difficulty level of the game is insane, and it gives you almost no hints.

This game is certainly not for everyone. You will probably either love it or hate it. It requires lots of brainpower, experimentation and planning, and it can get extremely frustrating. This game is very unforgiving, and does not allow you to reload a saved game if you get caught (but there are ways around that). However, you won't find anything else like it out there, and it's very well done. If stealing files from a corporation and then framing someone else for the crime sounds like fun to you, then "Uplink: Hacker Elite" is the game for you.

Rating:
Summary: Unique, suspenseful, and exciting
Review: Unique, suspenseful, and exciting.

Ahhh, Uplink. Another one of those games that most people have never heard of. And if you haven't heard of it, and you are looking for an exciting and unique simulation, then you have been missing out. Uplink: Hacker Elite isn't just the only game of its kind. It is also an excellent game.

The game has a basic premise. You are a freelance hacker in the year 2010, free to commit all sorts of cyber crimes however you would like. It's kind of like Grand Theft Auto in cyberspace. It is executed very well. The simulation never gets "out of character", so to speak. The start game screen isn't even a typical start game screen - it's a "login" screen onto the game's virtual network.

What this game does a great job of doing is giving you a feeling of mischief that comes from poking your nose into places it is not supposed to be. You accept jobs off of a bulletin board, sabotaging corporate data, breaking into banks, and doing other assorted dirty deeds. You break into secure systems by hacking passwords, disabling firewalls, and other methods, and then work as fast as you can before you are traced. It's very exciting, and it gives you a devious pleasure when you successfully sabotage a company's files.

"Uplink: Hacker Elite" has all sorts of different things to explore. Did you get caught and get yourself a criminal record? Hack into the criminal database and erase it! Are you going to destroy a corporate database? Buy the stock of the company's competitor and make some money off of it. You have to either experiment and figure this stuff out for yourself, or use a walkthrough from the internet. The difficulty level of the game is insane, and it gives you almost no hints.

This game is certainly not for everyone. You will probably either love it or hate it. It requires lots of brainpower, experimentation and planning, and it can get extremely frustrating. This game is very unforgiving, and does not allow you to reload a saved game if you get caught (but there are ways around that). However, you won't find anything else like it out there, and it's very well done. If stealing files from a corporation and then framing someone else for the crime sounds like fun to you, then "Uplink: Hacker Elite" is the game for you.

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Summary: Blue glow of your monitor in a darkened room
Review: Uplink is probably one of the most unique games I've played in a very long time. Instantly addictive, you'll keep going back to it, and find yourself up at stupidity late hours playing it. Theres nothing like the adrenilen rush you get as your tracer tracker starts beeping faster and faster as your connection is traced.
This is a great game that everyone should play at least once.

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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: Uplink is totally awesome. Very addicting and I play it nearly everyday. Unfortunatly however, I happend to stumble onto it while looking for info on real hacking so unless you found it that way too, I don't know how anyone would know this game exists. I was looking into hacking as a fun hobby but didn't want to do anything illegal. This filled that gap even though it's only losely based on real hacking, it still has enough challenges and things to explore. If your looking into hacking for the excitement and challenge, just buy this and you don't have to worry about getting shell accounts, teaching yourself the ropes, or breaking the law. You still get enough feel of what hacking is like breaking into big time companies, deleting/copying files, changing idenities, and all without fear of getting sent to Club Fed for a couple of years. Heard they're coming out with a sequal with a multiplayer feature allowing you to break into each others computers.... pretty cool :) In the meantime though, this is the game. Hopefully the next one will be more publicised though.

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Summary: You only think you are a gamer.... then you enter Uplink!!
Review: You haven't played a game until you played Uplink: Hacker Elite! This game is so captivating and so cool - even non-gamers are drawn in (Like myself)...
Awesome game!!! Love it! A DEFINITE MUST BUY!!!!!
Don't believe me? Go to the website for a FREE DEMO version and you will love it!!! Way worth the money!!!... go ... for the demo....