Hacker Evolution: Untold [review]

The Best Hacking game ever ::: Hacker Evolution: Untold



You may have played the Hacker evolution part I on your PC.. & Iphones .. but now its time to put you hands on some damn hot thing.. yes .. i m talking about the new realse on Hacker evolution series .. :::>> Hacker Evolution: Untold <<::: ..

 

           OVER ALL RATING FOR THE GAME ::  94.00 %

                 Hacker Evolution is a game like no other I’ve ever played. I have to admit going into reviewing the game, I had my doubts about whether I would enjoy it as it was a step out of my comfort zone, but once in a while it seems, it’s okay to take a step out of your comfort zone.

The name of the game gives it away as to what it’s all about, hacking. You play the role of Brian Spencer, a young computer programmer working for a company he started with a couple of friends, which has developed the technology from where it all started. When you are being framed for crime, it's up to you to prevent computer from becoming the next dominant specie, and clear your name, using your hacker skills There are a total of ten missions and each one has several ways to solve them. To do this you must scan for servers, figure out how to get into them, and obtain the information needed to move on. At times there might be money you can steal (too scarce, but it’s there), which helps you through the game. With the money you can buy better equipment or decrease your global trace level. You have to be careful with your global trace level, (this is where you can be "discovered" and stopped) as this carries over to each mission. Each mission you start out by having to crack and decrypt a new service, which automatically adds a 20% penalty. So you always have to keep an eye on it. 

When you first start the game there is a tutorial, normally I hate tutorials and try to avoid them like the plague. In this case, I was glad it was there. It took some time, and at times even the tutorial would lose me, but it really does help once you start playing the game. It leads you through a storyline and shows you what you need to do. Just make sure you pay attention (I’ll admit I didn't the first time) as you can get really confused within the game if you don’t. The tutorial seemed to be long and tedious at first, but I think it had more to do with me not understanding how it would all work. Once you finish it and actually start playing the game, it really does help you.

            The puzzles or missions are tough, almost like someone knows more about hacking than they should, yet sometimes they are too complicated it seems. As I mentioned before, for each mission there is more than one solution. Even though you tend to do the same thing in each mission, you can get wrapped up in the mystery of it and forget that you’re repeating yourself. Within each mission there are clues to help you along the way. Yet somehow the first time through, I seemed to miss the majority of them. The one thing I would have liked to see is a copy and paste option or a drop down menu once you have obtained a certain server, as that would cut down on typing the same thing over and over again.

The one thing I noticed, as a family man who has children/grandchildren screaming playing around the house, you can’t save during the mission. You can only save between the missions, granted most missions can be done within an hour, but sometimes it would be nice to save if you have to walk away from the game. The other side to that is, I found that if you did walk away from the middle of a game, you had better remember what you were doing as it could easily affect you. This happened more than once to me.

              Getting into the nuts and bolts of the game, it all tends to tie together well. The game graphics have a feel as if you’re really hacking into systems and has a sinister feeling to it. I guess that’s if you think hacking into private servers is sinister. They also did a good job blending it into the game. The voice-overs make it seem a bit more realistic, yet the music tracks were hit or miss. Sometimes the music seemed to flow with what was going on, and other times almost seemed a distraction. Hacker Evolution: Untold has quite a large library of music, which is refreshing as we all know since a lot of games seem to play the same music repeatedly and really get annoying after awhile.

Saying all that, you’re not going to become a criminal mastermind in cyberspace because of this game, but you can have loads of fun pretending to be one (even if you’re on the good guys side). Yet the really great thing about this game is they leave it open for fans to be able to create mods for the game. I personally am not great at programming, so it’s not for me, but I’m sure some great mods could be made. For the casual gamer, I am not sure you will have the greatest experience with the game as it can become frustratingly difficult. Sometimes you will be forced to start over a lot. If you’re like me, and have to finish every game, this will be a game you will want to check out. I’m very happy I stepped out of my comfort zone to play this game, as it was worthwhile. It feels realistic, following the storyline kept it interesting, and now I must go save the world again.

 Requirements : 

Platform : PC

OS : WinXP , Vista , Win 7

RAM : 256  MB

Hard-Disk : 200 MB Maximum

Graphic Card : N/A or not need more then provided wid Motherboard 

Audio : 32-bit