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"Uplink", Over all a decent game. It lacks replay value once your top hacker. Game play becomes repetitive at times.

"Fun, interesting, and somewhat technical.", This game, while dated is still an excellent choice. For anyone that ever has wanted to be an "elite hacker" or just thought it was cool, you should try it. The game is very easy to learn, there is a short tutorial and then it starts you on the missions.
The game shows you some things that are correct with hacking, but the game does take place in the future so there are fictional things as well. In order to progress you need to upgrade your utility programs as well as your computer system.
Every time I would get caught hacking, it would make me want to go back and try again. Its simple and addictive. Definately a worthwhile purchase.

"Simply Awesome!", Uplink is one of the best games since the 80s! It may not have state of the art graphics, but perhaps simpler is better. The text adventures of the 80s had one advantage over 99% of any graphic games today, and that is you could use your imagination while playing. Don't get my wrong I love playing state of the art graphics games, but they get boring doing the same thing over and over. Why do you think they are developed to play for 36 hour game play? But games where you use your imagination can be enjoyable long after you toss out most of the games today. I put Uplink in the same fun catgory as Master of Orion (orignal version), which I enjoyed for an entire year the first year it came out, and never really mastered it. With the knowledge game developers have now, it's time to return to the roots of PC games and create games that challenge our minds. I highly recommend Uplink for players who want a challenge.

"Never Thought A Hacking Game Would Be That Good!", This hacker simulation game is simply better than my imagination. You are first hired to do hacking tasks, taken by fairly good tutorial, and then moving on to the real world. you have to go through all kind of password cracking, firewall bypassing, Bouncing Connections, it even has its command line feature. You start gradually and have all the support material included as part of the game itself.

You really get the feeling you are in a hacking mode from the first look at the game cover. Even entering the serial number has never been so much fun where you have to go through a matrix of scrambeled numbers. Sound has a great taste as well... reminds me of the movie "Recruit".

If you are really into hacking, this game is the choice for you.

"A must have for gamers", 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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"Unique, suspenseful, and exciting", 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.

"A tedious process made fun.", 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.

"Must-buy", 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.

"Awesome!!!", 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.

"Uplink-A 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.