Giveaway of the Day - Hacker Evolution

December 28, 2008

Play the role of Brian Spencer, a former intelligence agent, against a complex enemy created by an artificial intelligence.

You play the role of a former intelligence agent, specializing in computer security. When a chain of events sets off worldwide, leaving critical service disabled, you assume the role a computer hacker to find out what happened and attempt to stop it. When a stock market, a central bank, satellite uplink and transoceanic fiber optics links crash, you know this is more then a simple event. Something big is behind all this, and you have to figure out what is it.

You hack into computers, look for exploits and information, steal money to buy hardware upgrades in an attempt to put all the pieces of a big puzzle, together. Set in a virtual operating system environment, the game is packed with all the features required to bring the hacker feeling and experience to every gamer.

The concept behind Hacker Evolution is to create a game that challenges the gamer’s intelligence, attention and focus, creating a captivating mind game. Solve puzzles, examine code and bits of information, to help you achieve your objectives.

User Rating: Rate It!	393 (52%) 364 (48%) 52 comments
System Requirements:	Windows ME/XP/2000/2003 or Vista; Microsoft DirectX 8.0; Pentium 1 GHz processor or faster, 512Mb RAM, 200Mb free disk space; 16Mb DirectX 8.0 compatible videocard; Microsoft compatible keyboard and mouse
Publisher:	exosyphen studios
Homepage:	http://www.exosyphen.com/
File Size:	78.9 MB
Price:	$19.95

This software was available as a giveaway on December 28, 2008, this giveaway is not available any more. You can download the trial version of this software at http://www.exosyphen.com/.

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Check out my comment from the other week as this game is basically the same, though I didn’t really review the game properly. I only got notified very late last night and wasn’t in the mood to sit for several hours writing a review, suffice it to say that the game tends to get mixed reviews which would lead me to the conclusion that it’s the sort of game that you’ll either love or hate. I though the last one had potential after seeing the screen shots, but sadly I decided to delete it a few days after I downloaded it because I just couldn’t get into it and my children found it boring. It’s definitely not a game for the kids unless they want to train as a hacker, lol. If you don’t mind a game that lacks any graphics and involves lots of typing, then this is a game for you. The music is quite good and is the main reason why the download is so large. I’ve actually copied several of the 9 mp3’s into my music folder as I thought they were quite good.

The game originally had an expansion pack that was called Hacker Evolution: Reinsertion that was sold separately and we were given it as a separate giveaway last year. That is now part of the original game, so if you missed it the first time around but got the original, do download this one as it has been updated to incorporate the expansion (or so the developers home page says)

You can pick up on some references and images by following the link below to my last post which also has links to the previous time this game was given away back in May 2007:

http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/hacker-evolution-untold/#comments

You can see a 2 minute game play movie via the following link:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_tMOkWU_-1A

and an even longer one (10 minutes):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0YKg5XFFBco&feature=related

You can download a PDF game manual and a walkthrough for the game from Hacker Evolutions home page:

http://www.exosyphen.com/page_hacker-evolution.html

It’ll be a new year by the time we meet again, so I’d like to take this opportunity to say:
I hope all that celebrate the New Year this coming week have made your New Years resolution? If you want to share it with the community I’ve set up a post in the forums just for fun:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4512
Comment by Whiterabbit aka Stephen — December 28th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Haha fast one this time Whiterabbit-uk
Comment by Hova — December 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am
yeah, I was waiting with copy anf paste for the change over, lol
Comment by Whiterabbit aka Stephen — December 28th, 2008 at 3:13 am