New VR Game Makes You a "Hollywood Hacker" 38
An anonymous reader writes "An upcoming VR game for the Oculus Rift aims to let players 'be a Hollywood Hacker.' Listing inspirations from 'Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers, The Lawnmower Man, and the TRON films,' Polygon claims that the game 'does an amazing job at exploring those hacking tropes and often silly visuals to give the player a sense of control and power. This is "real life" hacking as filtered through a Michael Bay fever dream.'"
hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm maybe this is how they've been hacking bitcoins.
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I always imagined it looked more like this [youtube.com].
William Gibson (Score:2)
William Gibson made true...
Uplink (Score:5, Interesting)
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Came here to post this (although I don't see anything wrong with a new game of the same style).
The visuals in this video remind me of the visualizations in the GiTS series.
Anyone who likes this might also like Retrovirus, a Descent-like game in a Tron-like world...it has LAN co-op and is sold DRM-free BTW.
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The development kit is only $300 (Score:1)
https://www.oculusvr.com/order/
I'm going to buy one right now.
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I hope watch dogs is good (Score:3)
and they better at least try to get some of roads right or at least make look like they tried
Every keystroke causes a *BEEP* to emit (Score:1)
and there is a [BYPASS] button next to the password prompt!
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Bypass button? Real hackers don't need a bypass button. They guess the real password in three attempts. (Of course, the first two are just for show.)
Watch, I'll hack Slashdot right now. *types "12345" as the Password* And to prove I'm in, I'll make a dupe story appear sometime in the next month.
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Any one play the Johnny Mnemonic FVM game? (Score:2)
Will this game have any of that FVM game play in it?
Johnny Mnemonic pinball is better then the movie (Score:2)
The pinball adaptation that is much better received than the movie itself.
Finally (Score:3)
I'll be able to play a game where I can create a GUI interface with Visual Basic to track an IP address.
Enter the Matrix (Score:3)
Even though it's nowhere close to the real deal. It did require the casual gamer to go through a command-line interface, guess a 5-digit binary code based on feedback about how many did he get right, solve a Kanji puzzle, find password in one directory and apply it to the other etc. The end result neatly tied in with the game where you could, for example, acquire a sword in the Matrix or set off an EMP.
Certainly much better than a Michael Bay fever dream.
who needs vr? (Score:1)
I prefer my hackin' Swordfish style...
with real internet, you don't GO anywhere (Score:1)
i think this is the most misleading thing about cyberpunk and hollywood hacking tropes... that there is a cyberspace that actually exists in some allegorical way and that a user's avatar can actually "travel" from point to point looking upon and travel to floating pyramids of information. that analogy is totally wrong.
the far more accurate analogy is simply making telephone calls. if you are anywhere at all, you are right smack dab, ass down in chair in front of your computer. and your computer itself do
Inspired by? (Score:3)
The clip from "Swordfish" where Hugh Jackman is playing beat the clock hacking the password while getting a BJ from one of John's Travolta's sluts, I want that...
But then again, he had a gun pointed at his head... still an awesome way to go.
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