It's a surprisingly realistic title called Uplink that simulates hacking. Although it's dressed in a Hollywood-style like the movies WarGames, Sneakers and Swordfish, a lot of techniques used are those employed by real hackers. ... Uplink looks at the old school of hacking, before everything was connected via the Internet.

Is uplink a hacking tool?

The hacking gameplay in Uplink is textbook cyberpunk, with cracking software, credits, and nasty megacorporations. It's like a puzzle-adventure, with all the action taking place between bits and bytes in cyberspace.

Is uplink realistic?

Uplink is a hacking simulator game. It's 100% completely unrealistic... unless you're not that familiar with computers, IP addresses, and the most basic understanding of how network connections are made.