Hacker Man Reviews

i want refund

its low budget and i completed it a bit too fast. however it was 89 cents and for that it's not bad.

So frustrating trying to format, get language correct, for it to work correctly without bugs. Not worth it

[quote][i]This is the [b]38th[/b] review of the Steam Redlight series, a series where I purposely seek out negatively or controversially rated games on Steam to see if they're as bad as the Internet says they are. It's accompanied by a video review that can be found [b][url=https://youtu.be/_1I4ILkl8aQ]here[/url][/b].[/i][/quote] [b]In summary, I don’t recommend this game and for a numerical score I’d give it a 2/10[/b]. The game has some minorly good graphical elements in some of the models’ hit acknowledgements and death animations. This game is held back by its poor gameplay, whether it’s the game-breaking bugs that outright prohibit your progression, incredibly lackluster and meaningless hacking elements, an array of uselessly listed controls, and its hardest difficulty lacking any type of challenge. [h2]Introduction[/h2] In Hacker Man, you play as Joe. With no given last name, I’m going to assume it’s [spoiler]Mama[/spoiler]. Acting as the bad guy in a lifetime movie, you’re looking to exact revenge on your Director’s company after they fire you for sleeping with their wife. In Joe’s offtime, you’ve decided to get revenge by spending your newfound free time developing your hacking skills, and after [strike]years[/strike] [strike]months[/strike] [strike]days[/strike] an afternoon of perfecting these skills, you’ve decided to infiltrate your former employer and hit them where it hurts. Hacker Man plays as a pretty generic shooter — you have two guns and some enemies separating you and your objective. Stealth is available as a means to an end but the tree of game development requires the blood of NPCs, so you’re gonna have to crack some skulls. Other than that, the hacking is relatively trivial; you walk up to a computer, phone, or server, press a button, and hold your breath for to create the illusion of tension. You have a health bar and heal fully after a short time of not taking damage, and you also have a stamina bar for running. Maybe jumping. I didn’t write that note down. This game has roughly seven minutes of gameplay, or at least, seven minutes [i]to me[/i] since I was able to complete it in that time, conditionally. The rest of my playtime came from bug-finding and general coping. In the launcher (because the game utilizes one), you do have the ability to turn on Dev Mode since it’s a checkbox. Dev Mode gives you FlyMode and NoClip, which is oddly appropriate given the topic of this game. Before you bust my balls, yeah, I’m the first review and I said I look out for “negatively rated games”, but after my initial gameplay experience it just seemed appropriate to classify it this way as opposed to a regular review. That’s about it for the foundation, so let’s move onto what I liked. [h2]The Good[/h2] When you shoot enemies, they occasionally die pretty dramatically. It’s kind of satisfying, and there’s a pretty good handful of enemies that are waiting to lie in chalk. Dev Mode was kind of cool but it did serve as my copium, so it’s outweighed by what it was fixing. That’s about all the things I liked, so let’s move onto what I liked a little less. [h2]The Ungood[/h2] The lesser of this game’s evils is that the story isn’t really conveyed in the game itself. If you don’t read the game on the Steam store page, you wouldn’t know what you’re doing or why. There’s no dialogue, no pieces of lore, no subtitles, nothin’ except you, a gun, and some people who love catching bullets in their spare time. There’s an occasional garnish of “[i]hacking[/i]”. The greatest evil of all is within this games’ gameplay in several different layers, but I’ll start with the launcher screen. The launcher screen has this incredibly inappropriate music for the rampage you’re about to inflict on Tech Corp., and I can’t say I’m used to seeing an advert for another (developer-published) game in a launcher. I also don’t really understand the purpose of the big “Press Play to start playing Hacker Man” banner. I feel like I’m totally capable of seeing the [b]PLAY[/b] button in the center of the screen and inferring what results it’s gonna give me. Following that, after clicking the play button the game shows you a list of controls, of which only like 50% of them are relevant. But before I go into that, [i]why the hell did this game trigger my Windows firewall?[/i] Anyway, back to controls; for example, the game lists some driving controls, yet there’s no cars to drive. There’s a grenade button, but there’s no grenades that I could find. There’s a special [strike]attack[/strike] button, but it doesn’t do anything. So… [b]why are they there?[/b] The game also does seem to have some slight delay between its input, and while this isn’t anything more than a [i]casual[/i] game, I can feel the delay between when I press spacebar and when my character actually jumps. Into more critical aspects of the game, there’s several invisible walls in various places. I wanted to go behind the Tech Corp. building instead of going into the fenced parking lot, but you’re prevented from doing that by an invisible wall. Shooting is also pretty easy — the pistol doesn’t seem to have much of a drop-off so you can longball with it quietly since it’s silenced to take out people from great distances without gathering too much attention. If you do get into a heated confrontation, it can be about the most okayest type of shooting gameplay you might experience — if you just hide for five seconds or so you’ll regenerate to full health and be ready to wipe out the rest of the battalion. This was all on [b]Veteran[/b] by the way, the game’s [i]hardest difficulty[/i]. The shooting mechanics absolutely [b]pale[/b] in comparison to the hacking mechanics, so this game really should just be called [b]Shooter Killer Man[/b] as hacking is [b]just[/b] walking up to a device and pressing [b]F[/b]. Can I get an F in the comments to pay respect to the gameplay, please? Lastly, the most cardinal of sins — there’s a game breaking bug. Your second objective is to get to a door to enter Tech Corp., but once you get there you get another objective to pick up an access card from a new guard that spawned. Put that poor, lost, soul out of his misery and you’ll be rewarded with the time sink of [i]trying[/i] to pick up the card, but failing repeatedly. Pressing [b]F[/b] to pick up the card key [b]doesn’t pick it up[/b], so you [b]can’t go through the door[/b], and thus you [b]cannot continue the game[/b]. Luckily, the game developers permitted us to use NoClip by use of the included Dev Mode, so if you check that box and press F3 a couple of times, you’ll turn on FlyMode and NoClip, allowing you to go through the locked door and continue the game since once you start hacking, your objectives will update and you can continue onwards. For what it’s worth, I did do my seven-minute run in as much of an honest way as I could, only using NoClip to get past doors I couldn’t get past and then immediately deactivating it. Maybe the real Hacker Man was the developer, and all of their efforts along the way. Spoiler, for the last… one to two minutes of gameplay. [spoiler]Once you hack the servers, you just exit through the front door, kill some more guards, get to the vehicle objective, and the game is over[/spoiler]. And that’s that, your revenge is executed and the world will learn to fear your name. [h2]The End[/h2] The game needs a lot of work before I’d consider rating it positive, or even middle-ground. The access key fix wouldn’t be enough — there has to be more depth to the what’s pretty much the title-track gameplay element of the game. [quote][i]If you’re into curator groups, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38757311/]we have one of those[/url]*.* Did you like this written review? Watch the video review which does have some different coverage not talked about here:[/i][/quote] https://youtu.be/_1I4ILkl8aQ