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Uplink: Hacker Elite

Fun for a while, soon becomes repetitive

I played 30 hours and got the game for about £1 so shouldn't complain, but... First playthrough, found it very addictive, the excitement of learning the ropes and upgrading equipment. Then I got busted just as I was starting the story missions due to messing up a bank hack. On restarting, it became very repetitive. I knew how to complete the different types of missions so it was just a matter of the same clicking on the same bits of software, waiting for them to work. A much longer bounce network gave ample time for all missions so no sense of urgency. Also, unless you hack banks for cash for easy upgrades, you don't seem to get enough low level missions to earn enough to progress to high level (LAN) missions so end up fast forwarding time waiting for missions to appear. Finally, there is a morality system of sorts, but due to the slow crawl of missions becoming available, it would be difficult to pick and choose based on morality. So all in all, fun while you're still learning what to do, but gets old pretty quickly

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