Posted on: April 19, 2018
Dorgrin
Spiele: 150 Rezensionen: 1
Excellent
(Disclaimer: I own this on Steam not GOG). This is by far an excellent implementation of the old school hacking game, similar to Uplink but with a few quality of life improvements which reflect the times we live in. The gameplay is what you'd expect, you have a command line interface working with your computer, remoting into other systems and executing commands as you need to. For those less command line savvy, there is a fully functional (and convenient) GUI interface as well which lets you interact with the systems and files. I often found myself using a combination of the two, preferring the CLI for most functions but some (like directory manipulation) was easier with the keyboard. The game does a good job of keeping the gameplay realistic - obviously the exploits you use are simplified relative to the real world where patches are issued and different systems are vulnerable to different exploints due to them running a different version of the target software. But, overall, it feels like you are actually working with a genuine bash terminal (without some of the obvious commands you might want to use). Only drawback to this realism is tab completion in subdirectories, but hey it is a simulated CLI after all. The story is interesting, detailed, and enjoyable. The obstacles are though provoking - you do have to solve a few problems now and then; not doctoral in difficulty but also not always trivial either. Knowledge of modern iOS systems helps (alpine, anybody?) but is not essential. For those who did like uplink, you'll be disappointed to learn that there is no hardware management - you don't upgrade your CPU or memory. It may have been a nice touch, but the game accounts for this by improving your software over time (thus doing a task with fewer instances of a shell required, etc.) Solid game, give it a go. You won't regret it. I've had zero stability issues with it. And the soundtrack is to die for, by the way. If nothing else, pick that up!
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