The Hacker 2.0

The Hacker 2.0 for iOS is a mobile cyberpunk strategy game developed by Angry Bugs. It is a sequel to the 2012 game The Hacker.

Plot

The game takes place in a not-so-distant future and has a retro-futuristic feel to it, visibly inspired by the 80’s cyberpunk films and books.

We play as a hacker who has to break into well-protected computer systems in order to gather top-secret data and sabotage them.

Mechanics

The Hacker 2.0 for iOS is a strategy game with two primary aspects of gameplay. We spend the time between our missions in front of a virtual desktop. The screen of our device serves as a monitor of our in-game computer with its simple operating system, icons, and useful apps. We use them to contact with our clients, to start missions, to gather useful data, to manage our income, and to invest and buy better software and hardware.

Missions themselves are presented in a form of a turn-based tactical game. We observe the virtual reality where our avatar moves around and models serving as a depiction of security software that has to stop us are located form an isometric point of view. Our hacker has various offensive (against the defense programmes), defensive (i.e. blocking the way of firewall software), and special (teleporting our enemy to a different part of the map) abilities that we use to finish our missions.

Last updated on July 6, 2017