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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. Uplink by Apreche · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Uplink is an awesome awesome game. You have this awesome interface that makes you feel as if you are really hacking, movie style. It comes complete with the map that shows you relaying connections and getting traced. It even has plot! If you haven't played it, you should. I'm all for showing more realistic hacking in movies. Clean out some of the false impressions and stereotypes in peoples minds.

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    1. Re:Uplink by Captain+Nitpick · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What really bothered me about Uplink was the IRC client "upgrade".

      Having a real IRC client in the game just blurred the boundary with reality just a little too much.

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  2. Uplink? No. by ziggles · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A DOS-style interface? Uplink didn't have one of those. Uplink was more of a graphical hacking interface type thing than a command line hacking type thing.

    And what was with the "even on Playstation 2" remark? Is it harder to believe that it would have the feature on the PS2 than the xbox or GC?

  3. Uplink port for Mac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In a coincidence that can only be described as striking, Ambrosia released their port of Uplink for the Mac today.

    No, I ain't gonna include a link. I ain't cher momma.

  4. Too bad it's probably the best part of the game... by nekoes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess the only thing controversial about it is just the whole liscensing issue. I'm quite shocked that it's sold over a million or whatever I've heard. I just don't think the game merits that kind of attention, as it is just a mediocre action fighter/shooter at best. Just goes to show you how some liscenses will push units. The only merit besides the hacking console is the extra footage, that actually does give you a little back story into what's going on in reloaded, but it's hardly worth the trouble of playing through such a poorly designed game. That said, if they just extended the hacking console portion a bit (or a lot), I probably could of lived through the mediocrity that is enter the matrix. Too bad the PC's hacking console is crippled, it has horrible key response, the features that help you navigate without typing so much are busted, and the features that you 'unlock' have yet to work on my computer (the pictures, videos, and training level)... It was fun though... oh ya, what I was originally thinking, does this really warrent a post on games/.? And does anyone know of any other games that are of the same breed (hacking with a CLI)?

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