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Even today, Activision's Hacker games remain two of the best espionage games
ever made. The premise of Hacker 1 is novel: you accidentally stumble upon someone
else's computer system and can't resist the temptation to hack it (the game even
justifies its lack of instructions this way - after all, no one will be there to help
you if this actually happens). Consequently, the game opens with a plain text screen,
prompting you for the login password. To break into the system is the first puzzle
you've got to solve. Once in, you'll soon find out that you've accidentally stumbled
upon a conspiracy of global impact. From then on, you'll maneuver a robotic drone
around the globe through a tunnel system deep in the earth. In major cities, you may
surface and talk to contact persons, who'll trade items for cash. When delivered to
the correct city, you can exchange these items for a piece of evidence. If all
evidence is collected, you're to inform the FBI. As if figuring out the correct
routes and trades wasn't hard enough, frequent system malfunctions and security checks
test your skill as well. |