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Hacking Enter The Matrix

Posted by simoniker on from the format-a: dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to Gamespy's new guide to the hacking section of Enter The Matrix. This extra section of the game brings up a DOS-style interface, even on Playstation 2/Xbox/Gamecube, and lets you 'hack' to get pictures, movies, and extras from the million-selling but still controversial Atari-published title. Reminds us a little of the low-profile but excellent PC/Mac hacking game, Uplink?

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  1. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    controversial? huh?

    I'm confused, because a patch is released for a game and there is very little press about the game, that makes it controversial? the game was released right during the heart of E3, most websites more than likely had their hands full with E3.

    reviews are now plentiful now that E3 is over, you can find just a few of them here, here and here.

    Mike

  2. Re:Uplink? No. by simoniker · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can see how you might be confused by the 'even on Playstation 2' comment, so I've changed the post to add Gamecube and Xbox, just in case :)

    And, yes, I know Uplink was mainly using a graphical interface, but figured it was still worth mentioning, because there aren't really that many hacking games out there, the themes are similar, and a lot of people have missed Uplink because it doesn't have a major publisher behind it, sadly.

  3. Re:What, no GUI? by Blackwulf · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looking at the screenshots, there still is a GUI. You don't have to type "DIR", you can just click on the word DIR and it appears on the screen.

  4. Re:What, no GUI? by bmnc · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can't click on "dir", there is no mouse (just like theres no spoon or any other cutlery in the matrix). You can move a "cursor" with arrow keys over to dir but this is clunky and slow. On the xbox etc... its a time saver, on the PC its faster to type. And theh interface is worse thhan DOS because you can't change directory, and you have to type in the full path when using an .exe for the first time. They tried to make it realistic, and in doing so made it unfun, but they didnt make it realistic enough to be useable.