| 📰 Title: | Uplink | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 👁️ Visual: | 2D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ Classical ➤ Criminal investigation | 🏝️ Perspective: | First person |
| 🔖 Tags: | Hacking; Strategy; Simulation; Cyberpunk; Sci-fi; Classic; Experimental; Story Rich; Atmospheric | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time with Pause |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 👫️ Played: | Single | |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) | |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: - | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2010-08-20 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-06-22 |
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| ✨️ Not use: | ..... 📦️ Snap: |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 13334 |
| 📜️[en]: | An action / reflection game released in 2001 and inspired by Hollywood movies featuring hackers. The player is a hacker of Uplink in 2010, performing fraudulent jobs on behalf of large companies. His tasks involve stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money or erasing evidence. With the experience come missions more dangerous and more remunerative. The money earned can be used to upgrade the computer system or even speculate on the stock market. | 📜️[fr]: | Un jeu d'action / réflexion s'inspirant de films Holywoodiens mettant en scène des hackeurs. Le joueur y incarne un hacker de la société Uplink en 2010, accomplissant des jobs frauduleux pour le compte de grandes compagnies. Ses tâches consistent par exemple à voler des données de recherche, saboter d'autres entreprises, blanchir de l'argent ou effacer des preuves. Avec l'expérience viennent des missions plus dangereuses et plus rémunératrices. L'argent gagné peut-être utilisé pour upgrader le système informatique ou même spéculer en bourse. |
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Commercial links (Uplink): [Online store] [Steam]
Commercial links (Uplink: Hacker Elite): [GOG]
(Wikipedia: "As some versions of Uplink: Hacker Elite have been modified, many game mods and patches will not run with the Hacker Elite version")
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Devs (Introversion Software [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [Forums] [mastodon] [Facebook] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2]
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High tech computer crime and corporate espionage on the Internet of 2010
You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations. Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people.
You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buy new software and tools. As your experience level increases you find more dangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate on a fully working stock market (and even influence its outcome). You can modify peoples academic or criminal records. You can divert money from bank transfers into your own accounts. You can even take part in the construction of the most deadly computer virus ever designed.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Uplink is a video game released in 2001 by the British software company Introversion Software. It is best described as a simulator of the cinematic depiction of computer hacking.
Plot
In the game, the player assumes the role of a hacker in the year 2010, who begins work for the Uplink Corporation, which is a worldwide company providing work for hackers. The player amasses money, software, gateway hardware and skill in the course of performing jobs for various clients, and hacking servers of global corporations for profit. The storyline of the game begins with the player receiving an e-mail from a deceased top ranking Uplink agent concerning the research done by the Andromeda Research Corporation, related to the Andromeda organization which proclaims the destruction of the Internet. It is constructing a computer virus known as Revelation using artificial life research as a base in an attempt to destroy the Internet. One of the companies, Arunmor, attempts to cross their plans by developing Faith, a counter virus that can purge Revelation. The player can choose between two companies or even ignore the plot in its entirety, concentrating on freelance hacking, in which case the storyline plays out without the player's participation.
Style
Uplink focuses on emulating highly stylised, Hollywood-esque hacking, as seen in movies such as Hackers, Sneakers, WarGames and Swordfish. References to these movies can be found throughout the game, including joke servers for companies such as Steve Jackson Games (which has been raided by the Secret Service) and a nuclear missile control system from WarGames. It also features at least three references to the movie Sneakers, including one which can be found in the first version of the game (and was later removed in an update released by Introversion) which is a cheat code in which the user has to enter "TooManySecrets" (an anagram to the phrase "Setec Astronomy") as the username thus allowing him to access a cheat menu. Another reference to the anagram is the fake password "MySocratesNote", sent to the player in an e-mail which starts the plotline. In addition, the voice print sections use the phrase "Hello. I am the system administrator. My voice is my passport. Verify me." which is similar to the one Sneakers used.
The applications in Uplink are highly simplified, and almost fully automated, similar to depictions in movies such as Hackers.
Most of the 'hacking' is of the form: "there is a security system of type X, level Y that is stopping me from accessing or changing something I need to access or change, so I need to have an anti-X program of level Y+". There is some need for rapid selection of programs to run, but there is no actual difficulty in running them (provided that one can afford them).
The game has a certain number of unusual features, including an in-game IRC function to talk to other players and in earlier versions a multi-monitor feature requiring another copy of the game running on a second computer. The latter was removed in later versions due to lack of stability and popularity and, as it was called "Network", was often confused with multiplayer gaming (that the game does not offer).
Soundtrack
The game uses several songs originally made in S3M, mod and xm format. The original song files are included on the bonus CD-ROM of the game, a disc that was originally given as a free addition to those who referred the game to others. The disc also includes several songs which were rejected.
• The Blue Valley by Karsten Koch
• Deep in Her Eyes by Peter 'Skaven' Hajba
• Mystique Parts 1 and 2 by Robert 'Timelord' Gergely
• Symphonic by Dual Crew
Release
The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Linux directly by Introversion, and ported to and released for Mac by Contraband and Ambrosia Software respectively. Chris Delay stated in an interview with PC Gamer UK that they did not pay for advertising of the game at all — it became known purely by word of mouth. A version released in the US was published and distributed by Strategy First under the title Uplink: Hacker Elite. Legal proceedings were undertaken when Strategy First filed for bankruptcy and ceased paying Introversion royalties, but the Hacker Elite version remains available from various sources. The game is now also available via Valve's Steam online distribution service, and via GOG.com, as well as the Ubuntu Software Center. Uplink was also released for iPad on 7 June 2012. An Android version debuted as part of the Humble Bundle for Android 3, on 15 August 2012.
Hacker Elite royalties
A version released in the US was published and distributed by Strategy First under the title Uplink: Hacker Elite. Strategy First ran into financial difficulties, and ceased paying royalties to Introversion shortly before filing for bankruptcy protection, but continued to sell the game in competition with Introversion.
On 20 January 2006 Introversion announced they were taking legal action against all retailers of Uplink: Hacker Elite, except Stardock. It transpired that, while filing for bankruptcy would have caused a breach of contract, Strategy First persuaded Canadian courts to grant a moratorium preventing termination of the contract. Strategy First has resumed paying limited royalties.
Stores and services currently reselling Hacker Elite in North America include:
• Stardock, via GameStop's Impulse distribution platform.
• Direct2Drive, IGN's digital distribution service (as of July 2006).
• Strategy First's online store.
As some versions of Uplink: Hacker Elite have been modified, many game mods and patches will not run with the Hacker Elite version.
Un jeu d'aventure dans lequel le joueur incarne un hacker oeuvrant dans l'ombre de grandes compagnies, par le studio Introversion Software, portage Linux par Edward Rudd.
Uplink est un jeu d'action / réflexion sorti en 2001 et s'inspirant de films Holywoodiens mettant en scène des hackeurs. Le joueur y incarne un hacker de la société Uplink en 2010, accomplissant des jobs frauduleux pour le compte de grandes compagnies. Ses tâches consistent par exemple à voler des données de recherche, saboter d'autres entreprises, blanchir de l'argent ou effacer des preuves. Avec l'expérience viennent des missions plus dangereuses et plus rémunératrices. L'argent gagné peut-être utilisé pour upgrader le système informatique ou même spéculer en bourse.
Vous incarnez un agent Uplink accomplissant des jobs pour de grandes compagnies. Vos tâches impliquent le piratage des systèmes informatiques des concurrents, le vol de données de recherche, le sabotage d'autres entreprises, le blanchiment d'argent, l'effacement de preuves ou l'enfermement de personnes innocentes.
Vous utilisez l'argent que vous gagnez pour mettre à niveau vos systèmes informatiques et acheter de nouveaux logiciels et outils. À mesure que votre niveau d'expérience augmente, vous trouverez des missions plus dangereuses et plus rémunératrices. Vous pouvez spéculer sur un marché boursier pleinement opérationnel (et même influencer son résultat). Vous pouvez modifier les dossiers scolaires ou criminels des individus. Vous pouvez dévier l'argent des transferts bancaires vers vos propres comptes. Vous pouvez même participer à la construction du virus informatique le plus dangereux jamais conçu.
Voir aussi / See also: Digital - A Love Story, Hacker Evolution Duality, Hacker Evolution: Untold, Uplink,
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Uplink est un jeu vidéo de hacking sorti en 2001 développé par la société britannique Introversion Software pour Windows et Linux, puis porté sur Mac OS par Contraband et Ambrosia SoftWare, iOS et Android.
Il a été réédité sous le titre Uplink: Hacker Elite aux États-Unis, et porte désormais ce nom à la suite de la distribution par la société Strategy First.
Synopsis
Le joueur incarne un hacker de l'an 2010, et travaillant pour une mystérieuse société : Uplink Corporation. Son métier est d'attaquer des multinationales ; il y gagne de l'argent, des logiciels, du matériel en travaillant pour divers clients. Mais un jour, le joueur reçoit un courrier d'un agent Uplink décédé travaillant pour Andromeda Research Corporation (ARC)...
Système de jeu
Uplink est une simulation extrêmement stylisée et assez minimaliste. Les hackers du jeu sont dignes d'acteurs de films de hacking tels que Traque sur Internet, Johnny Mnemonic ou WarGames. Les références à certains de ces films sont présentes dans le jeu. Malgré cela, ce jeu reste selon beaucoup de gens irréaliste et exagéré, le thème du hacking dans les jeux vidéo restant assez controversé...