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OneWord: Sabotage

I just downloaded the demo for Uplink tonight and played it a little bit… It’s a fake hacking game basically. You are given missions by the corporation you work for and you have to spoof IP addresses, break passwords, bypass proxies and firewalls, delete log files, decrypt files, delete files, edit files, change databases, etc. Sometimes you have to sabotage someone by taking away their degree in the educational database, or you can steal someone’s identity by taking their Social Security number after they die. The interface is pretty slick with lots of animations and stuff. It looks like computer interfaces that they always have in the movies… Completely unrealistic but still pretty cool looking… The only thing I would have appreciated being added to it would be keyboard shortcuts to a lot of the different menus and stuff. Though I guess that is part of the excitement in the game, trying to click everywhere to run programs before you get traced and fined or arrested…

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