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Even today, Activision's Hacker games remain two of the best espionage games ever
made. Using real-time strategy, you once
again hack into a computer system, just to end up saving the world. Hacker 2 opens
with the console to the "Actisource" computer hotline system (a nice self-ironic pun
- although nobody knows why a serious hacker might want to crack a help service for
computer games...). However, your quiet little hack is soon disturbed: The government
wants you for a secret mission. Yes, it involves a robot drone. Yes, you're the one
at the remote control. Although this time, it's not the whole globe that's your
playground, but a high security facility in Russia, where the plans for global
domination are hidden. In fact, all you've got to do is to guide your drone to the
vault on a 2D map of the building. However, there are two major obstacles: Patrolling
guards and security cameras. To avoid detection, you've got to trick the observers.
By tapping the surveillance system you can see what cameras are currently active and
which rooms they monitor. Your task is to bypass the video signal of the right
cameras with a taped recording of an empty room, so that your drone is hidden from
the view. You control four monitors, which you may freely switch to show the security
monitor, the radar map, VCR output or one of the 38 cameras - thus keeping an eye on
guard movement while simultaneously controlling your drone and synchronizing
recordings to cameras. Whew, sounds like a lot of work? It is. |
