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New VR Game Makes You a "Hollywood Hacker"

Posted by Unknown on from the hacking-the-gibson dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An upcoming VR game for the Oculus Rift aims to let players 'be a Hollywood Hacker.' Listing inspirations from 'Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers, The Lawnmower Man, and the TRON films,' Polygon claims that the game 'does an amazing job at exploring those hacking tropes and often silly visuals to give the player a sense of control and power. This is "real life" hacking as filtered through a Michael Bay fever dream.'"

6 of 38 comments (clear)

  1. hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm maybe this is how they've been hacking bitcoins.

  2. Uplink by tepples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Other than the VR gimmick, does it do anything that Uplink , a simulator of Hollywood hacking that Slashdot covered over a decade ago, doesn't?

  3. I hope watch dogs is good by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2

    and they better at least try to get some of roads right or at least make look like they tried

  4. Finally by Andrio · · Score: 2

    I'll be able to play a game where I can create a GUI interface with Visual Basic to track an IP address.

    --
    The Internet King? I wonder if he could provide faster nudity.
  5. Enter the Matrix by krkhan · · Score: 2

    Had the most interesting built-in "pseudo-hacking" experience for a video-game.

    Even though it's nowhere close to the real deal. It did require the casual gamer to go through a command-line interface, guess a 5-digit binary code based on feedback about how many did he get right, solve a Kanji puzzle, find password in one directory and apply it to the other etc. The end result neatly tied in with the game where you could, for example, acquire a sword in the Matrix or set off an EMP.

    Certainly much better than a Michael Bay fever dream.

  6. Inspired by? by FlynnMP3 · · Score: 2

    The clip from "Swordfish" where Hugh Jackman is playing beat the clock hacking the password while getting a BJ from one of John's Travolta's sluts, I want that...

    But then again, he had a gun pointed at his head... still an awesome way to go.