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Having created a username and password from your agent, and answered a question related to those strange hex numbers on the card (a copy protection mechanism guaranteed to induce nostalgia trips in those who remember codewheels - fortunately, you only have to do it when you start a new agent), the game begins with a basic tutorial to tell you what's going on. (Of course, this rather surreal background is just a way of pulling off the role juxtaposition, but it doesn't require too much of a feat of disbelief suspension.) If an agent is caught, Uplink destroy the gateway and the agent's account, but the person is safe since no record of their identity was held. As a further safeguard, all agents rent a 'gateway machine' which they use for the actual hacking work. Anyone who wants can join, and the Uplink Agency don't store any records themselves to protect their agents from being traced and caught. The game year is 2010, and Uplink is an agency which hires out hackers to perform work for corporations. Starting the game for the first time tells you what's going on. It also has a Linux version bundled on the disk. It's also worth noting that, thanks to the lack of graphics, Uplink doesn't require a massive PC to run. Fortunately, installation is a doddle (standard autorun fare).

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Uplink comes with practically no documentation: all there is inside the case is the CD and a strange card, printed in gloss black on a matte black background (!), bearing the words 'Uplink - Introversion Software - Trust Is A Weakness' and a series of strange, meaningless hex numbers. and your hacker character is using a computer too. Like the older hacking games, though, it also goes for 'cheap' role immersion by juxtaposing IC and OOC (because, like, you're using a computer. Uplink describes itself as a 'simulation', but it takes a far more traditionally RPG-like attitude to the hacking genre. Hacking games went through a popular phase in the time of the Commodore 64 and similar (anyone remember System 15000?), where they were basically puzzle games involving following chains of clues to work out passwords and access codes. Uplink is a revival of what is actually a very old genre of game: the hacking game.