You do all your dirty deeds through a “Gateway” computer on loan to you from Uplink Corp. You’ll eventually uncover a set of story missions that let you decide the fate of the World Wide Web, but it’s also entirely possible to keep plugging away and seeing how much money you can accumulate, or how many servers you can breach. Success raises your Agent rating, which unlocks more complicated jobs.
You’ll browse their boards and accept randomly-generated tasks at levels you think you can handle. You’re a new hacker entering the scene, and the Uplink Corporation is essentially a job placement service. Uplink takes place in the dark, distant future of 2010, where corporations regularly purchase the services of cyber mercenaries to trash their competition – who are always foolish enough to place their gigaquads of sensitive data on central mainframes accessible directly from the Internet. Hacked twice in a month! Why, I wouldn’t know anything about this! Their first release features “hacking” that’s pure Hollywood flash, but also strikes a decent balance between being complex and accessible, clever and fun.
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Hacking as portrayed in movies seems like the kind of tense, fast-paced, moderately puzzle-like action that fits a video game perfectly, and lucky for me I guess, the guys at independent developer Introversion Software agreed. As I’ve said before, I never understood why fake hacking never took off of as a genre.
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