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Forgotten Classics – Uplink

Forgotten Classics – Uplink

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Few gaming highlights graced our screens back in 2003, and even fewer were worth remembering. After all, 2003 was 8 years ago now – heck, Half Life 2 hadn’t even seen the light of day, and groundbreaking developments akin to Crysis and Gears of War were still very much pipe-dreams; we’re talking ancient, light-years, even eons ago for the gaming industry. However, there was one little gem in particular that brightened up what was an otherwise dull gaming year. You see, every so often a game slips through under the radar, launching with the very minimum of fuss, and managing to survive via favourable reviews and word of mouth alone. Games such as these are considerably few and far between, yet in March of 2003 a game of such calibre was released, and that game was dubbed Uplink: Hacker Elite. …

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You Don’t Look at the HUD When You’re Playing With The Mechanics

You Don’t Look at the HUD When You’re Playing With The Mechanics

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This is about as graphical as the game gets.

I’ve been playing a lot of Uplink recently. It’s a very confusing, brilliant, terrifying game. For those of you not in the know, Uplink is a game were you play a rookie hacker on your way to the big money. You start out taking jobs to steal files from mostly unprotected servers, and work yourself up to hacking bank accounts and taking over government databases. The most brilliant thing about it, though, is that it creates all the staples of a great game; tension, excitement, strategy and a compelling narrative without ever giving you more than a few task bars, a world map and some text. It’s a triumph of mechanics over aesthetics, and it’s the antithesis to games like Crysis and Call of Duty.

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