Hacker

Hacker description

To begin the description of this game should be here: please do not think that this guide to "hacking", that, after or just after playing it, you will learn how to hack websites, security software, banks and military agencies and experience all the delights of life computer criminal. None of this here will not, and will something completely different – truly varanava game.

Why vagarosa? After all, it would seem that it falls under the genre of "adventure". But no – too many are such that it does not fit in its frame, and in frame of any genre. I can't compare this game (and its second part) with anything ever to appear in the world of games. This does not mean that this thing is the best. But still it stands apart from the rest, by itself, not having any analogues.

Although not a "textbook" and not even a "simulation" of the hacker, you have to play for him. The plot of the game is as follows: future (seems to be not very distant), corporations, although not yet own the world, but close to it. And here in the Central computer of one of them, called "Magma" which is engaged in deep drilling of earth's surface, and climbed the main character of the game. Why – hard to say. Most likely to just "play trick". He did not yet know that this step radically changed his life and the fate of the whole planet – if you're lucky, for the better.

The game consists of three parts, and the first one is so terrible that probably will scare away 90% and so few people willing to play it. The fact that access to a Central computer, you need to enter a special password, which of course we don't know. Luckily, the system will fail, so we still get and be able to take control of the robot (!). However, without the password we like the control operator (for him we will system), should pass the most difficult test, every time is a new start in case of an error: we are asked where a certain item of the robot, and we have on the screen with his image of her to specify. No help can not be expected, and it is, believe me, Oh how difficult.

But suppose somehow the test is passed, control of the robot is obtained. What is this robot? It is something like technical staff, wandering through the underground tunnels dug by the forces of the Corporation and enveloped our entire home planet. Now we look at the world through his eyes. Soon after that will receive reports from the Board of the Corporation, which will clarify (at least partially) the story and you will learn that the villains planned to take over the world with a new source of energy, but drilling in the area of its discovery can lead to disaster that will destroy the entire planet. Of course, you decide to prevent it. However, the Hacker would not have been the masterpiece game, if only it were that simple. After some time found that there is a third force – the mysterious spy organization that stole a secret document, which outlines the plan of the Corporation, and which is going to pass it to a world government, but is willing to sell his "Magma" back, the paper was torn into several pieces which are stored at different spies (which have yet to be found), each of which wants a piece of something a certain someone money, and someone – some thing, so you as one of the operators of the Corporation (you still haven't figured out), will participate in the trade exchange with spies (you like the way, the Corporation will allocate some money for this). Whose sick imagination came up with all this – the rhetorical question.

The interface of the game is pretty hard, but the main points are as follows. The world you, as already mentioned, see the eyes of the robot, and screen "first person", in which the same type of change, is only a small part of the screen game. The main part is a world map, divided into cells, but the tunnels that you walk on this map, and the map they have (just have) to draw on their own, almost like in quests. Also on the card special signs marked the position of the robot at the moment and the location of the cities in which they live spies. In addition, the game screen includes a compass for easy orientation and a special panel for input of various commands that you have to introduce yourself (mostly for the movement and ascent/descent to the surface).

The entire second part of the game you have to devote to communicate with spies: because you don't just need to get the part of the document, you have to collect them all, so they don't get to the real operators of the Corporation. At this stage, the game turns into some twisted trading simulator: you will need to find the spies, to rise to the surface, meet and bargain with them. To bargain hard because almost all of them want one of the few things in exchange for his part of the document, and it so happens that some want only one (logical, he wants her to give), and another few. So I have pretty smash his head, to appease them all to collect all the parts of the document.

But this is only the beginning: Hacker wouldn't be Hacker ohms, if continually, that is, not "break off" you: as soon as it seems that the worst is over or that at least the worst of it, you immediately prove otherwise. First, after some time will start system crashes, which will be denied and will no longer display the world map (here's the handy you manually drawn diagrams of the tunnels). Second, after some time, the Corporation still somehow finds out that the network was hacked, and give the order space satellites to disable the robots, but first you must verify their authenticity by asking special questions: if the answer is incorrect, then the robot will turn off. This part of the game – a perverse mix of arcade and quest: you're trying to avoid the satellites you found, and if found, it will have to answer questions (there are four attempts). The fourth question – the same initial password, which plagued you in the early game, so if you have not yet learned (and know it can and should), then either avoid satellites, or prepare for the probable loss.

About the graphics, honestly, after this description and do not want to remember. 1985 still... It's there, and pay tribute to the year of release is very good, especially pleasing panoramic views of the surface. Dungeon more gloomy, where the screens are actually limited to two options – pass and stalled, but still drawn pretty well. But I'm sure to pay special attention to you it will not because the main thing here is to read and enter commands, as well as of thinking, a lot, hard and fast, so it's not up to the graphics.

To describe all the advantages and features of this masterpiece impossible. Much easier to touch myself to this unionroom nugget, to repeat that it is simply impossible (even if it occurred – came the second part). Recommend to anyone this game is not: those who are interested, and so are unlikely to pass by. By the way, so loud and promising title of the game, maybe, and carries a hidden meaning: if you manage to pass it, it means that nature obviously did not deprive you of the brain began to be, and real hackers to try to go...

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com