• Hacker Evolution - Untold
  

  13 hours playtime

  no achievements

hacker evolution: untold is a lot like the first hacker evolution game but a little less good. it adds a deletelogs command which i like, but the story isn’t as interesting. not sure if this was in the first game too, but the menus are sometimes weird. you can’t actually select your save to load it using the keyboard; i had to use my mouse. it’s a mostly keyboard-driven game.

just as in the first hacker evolution, i found myself wanting to optimize how i played each level for the smallest possible trace. nothing useful on that server? don’t bother hacking it. found an exploit for a service i already cracked? restart and get the exploit first. it also has a lot of waiting for decrypt and crack commands to complete, which you can make better by upgrading your components, but then you might accidentally spend too much to be able to lower your trace enough.

i enjoy hacking games, but uplink does it a lot better than the hacker evolution series. i’m still planning to play the last game in the trilogy because a mediocre hacking game is still a hacking game.