
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
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I've had this game on my wish list for 6 years, waiting for it to go on sale. I have a soft spot for ARGs and these kinds of "hacking" puzzle games, but I'm usually disappointed with the genre. The "hacking" usually boils down to obscuring the game's mechanics behind a severely dumbed down, limited and frustrating command line interface, then forcing you to solve what boils down to sudoku puzzles and anagrams as the meat of the game. I've been a software engineer since the 90s, I'm basically setting myself up for disappointment whenever I play one of these. This game ended up being pretty much like every other hacking simulator I've played. The first episode was entertaining, although a bit simple. It would have been the perfect length and difficulty for a demo. I was pleasantly surprised when I dropped into a command line and was able to instinctively use "ls" and "cat" to show the contents of a directory and dump a file to the terminal to read it, without having to view the available commands. Oh, and occasionally a file requires root privs to view, so you have to use "sudo" once in a while. Well, that's pretty much where the realism of the shell environment ends. Not to mention the system you're using was supposed to have been built in the early 1960s, well before Unix even existed. You can "cat" jpgs to view them. ssh works without user names and passwords are stored in text files. You spend the majority of your time interfacing with the terminal, but can't customize the font size, scroll with your mouse wheel or copy/paste. It would have been nice if some of the challenge came from realistically having to socially engineer information, or having to use some kind of packet sniffer or port scanner to illicitly gain knowledge. But instead you basically solve slider puzzles and anagrams, with the terminal and network acting as minor roadblocks to finding all the pieces of the puzzle so you can rearrange them into an answer. There's one puzzle that requires you to look up a real back issue of a newspaper, which at the time this was released was probably freely available but which is now hidden behind a paywall. You'll now either have to subscribe to the newspaper to view this solution or you'll have to use the Chrome inspector to delete elements from the page to get past the paywall and view a blurry rendition of the image you need. That's the closest thing to "hacking" I did when playing this game, and it's just a matter of time before that probably won't work either. I got bored about halfway through the second chapter. I could have continued jumping around the serially networked computers to solve the silly ciphers, but I just didn't want to any more. As far as this kind of "hacking" simulator, still to this day there is no better game than Telehack. It's 100% free and 1000% more realistic, deep and rewarding than anything else I've tried in this genre in the last 10 years. TIS-100 is a close second, if you like solving brain teasers dressed in retro computer wrappings. As far as Mu Complex, well, I can't say I recommend it.
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Mu Complex is a "hacker adventure" where your poking onto random terminals have opened up a world of discovery, opportunity, and... a bit of WTF had happened. Some of the puzzles require going into the real world for clues, but it wasn't clear when that was totally necessary, and often, totally anachronistic. And at the end, it relied on a timed puzzle that basically forced me to rage quit. Some of the puzzles are relatively clever, the former inhabitants left clues that are not visible in regular light, but are visible under blacklight or thermal or IR, as you hack one computer after another, discovering more clues along the way. But the game went seriously anachronistic when it was supposedly set in the 1960's, but it has a password reset procedure that tells you to access a mail server through URL. Keep in mind that http wasn't invented until 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and team. Another clue later requires clues from a token posted by a Twitter account, which isn't active until 2006! (And the token Twitter account was created 2015!) Yet ANOTHER clue requires research of a real newspaper on Google for a specific page on a specific date in the 1960's. Some of the puzzles are clever, but the final few puzzles rely on time limits. Do two serious multiplication and addition based on a random number in 30 seconds. There's just not enough time unless you're lightning fast on the calculator AND the keyboard. And the plot? Hah, derivative. Let's just say the name LYA is very reminiscent of another AI, shall we? Well, enough said.
[h1]Would absolutely be a yes 5 years ago[/h1] This game was such a hit when it was still a Flash-based game. Great level design for the episodes available to play. At the time when Steam version comes out, so much hype on the new episodes as well. But now, it's nothing more than just a dead end. Feel free to buy it to support the developers for those played Flash versions, or if it's on sale with dirt-cheap price - it will be a very fruitful and enjoyable few hours. But don't bother to purchase if you want to know more about the story. I doubt there will be any update or DLC in foreseeable future.
/open mail *computer says no* /sudo open mail *access granted* Im in....
Unfortunately some very cool ARG elements of the game have been broken by the passage of time, and the dev has abandoned the project. Sad to see.
[h1]Reseña de Mu Complex: ¿Un Viaje Hacker o Un Verdadero Rompecabezas Cerebral?[/h1] [h2]Resumen[/h2] Si alguna vez soñaste con ser un hacker, pero te quedaste en ver \Mr. Robot\ sin entender nada, pues Mu Complex podría ser tu oportunidad de redimirte... o frustrarte aún más. Este juego te presenta una serie de rompecabezas en un entorno supuestamente \secreto\ que parece más bien sacado de la oficina de mi tía abuela con cortinas de encaje. Con una interfaz que intenta evocar la pantalla de un viejo Unix, Mu Complex te pide que resuelvas misterios, descifres códigos y, ocasionalmente, te preguntes qué estás haciendo con tu vida. [h2]Aspectos importantes e interesantes[/h2] - **Nostalgia por los viejos tiempos:** La interfaz realmente te hace sentir que estás en la década de los 80, intentando hackear el Pentágono con una computadora Commodore 64. - **Desafío mental asegurado:** Si te gustan los acertijos que te hacen pensar hasta que el cerebro te pide vacaciones, esto es para ti. [h2]Aspectos por mejorar[/h2] - **Curva de aprendizaje más empinada que el Everest:** No apto para novatos o personas con baja tolerancia a la frustración. - **Diseño visual:** A veces menos no es más. Más bien es solo menos y te deja queriendo algo más de “bonito” en la interfaz. [h2]Tabla de Puntuaciones[/h2] [table] [tr][th]Categoría[/th][th]Puntuación[/th][th]Comentarios[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Jugabilidad[/td][td]7[/td][td]Desafiante, pero a veces te sientes más perdido que rata en ferretería.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Dificultad / IA[/td][td]8[/td][td]Prepárate para sudar la gota gorda.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Contenido[/td][td]6[/td][td]Interesante pero no te va a cambiar la vida.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Video / Gráficos[/td][td]5[/td][td]Funcionales, pero con el carisma de un ladrillo.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Historia[/td][td]6[/td][td]Tiene su encanto, pero no esperes un guion de Oscar.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Ambientación[/td][td]8[/td][td]Realmente te sientes en un sótano oscuro hackeando secretos.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Efectos[/td][td]5[/td][td]Justo los básicos para que no sea un cuaderno de notas.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Música[/td][td]7[/td][td]Decentemente enigmática.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Voces[/td][td]4[/td][td]Pocas y distantes. Esperaba algo más de diálogo.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Diversidad[/td][td]6[/td][td]Ni que fuera un desfile de modas, pero cumple.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Total Puntuaciones[/td][td]62[/td][td][/td][/tr] [/table] [h2]Evaluación Final[/h2] Si tu puntuación total es 62 entonces [b]Cómpralo con descuento[/b]. Si encuentras una oferta que te haga guiñar el ojo, no lo dudes. Pero a precio completo, quizás quieras pensar en dos veces antes de desenfundar la billetera. Mu Complex definitivamente tiene su encanto para los amantes de los rompecabezas, pero puede que no sea el amor de tu vida gamer.
Excelente juego, simple y falso, pero te sumerge mucho en la onda de ser un hacker, con pocos tecnicismos y muchas habilidad. Algunos desafíos se han complicado con el tiempo, porque ya no hay en Internet toda la información que había cuando salio el juego, pero sigue siendo pasable.
Dit was best saai en te makkelijk. Ik had meer plezier met het installeren van linux op mijn computer. Er zijn betere puzzels in andere spellen. Na een geforceerde tijdsdruk in het spel, stopte ik. Het irriteerde mij. Het spel weet ook niet hoe het in volledig scherm moet. En ik adviseer je om het geluid uit te zetten, want de robotstem is stom en het geluid op de achtergrond voegt niets toe.
[i]MU complex[/i] is a short, but well-executed, fun, and challenging terminal based hacking game. It's straight-forward in the sense that you work your way through a network of computers, gathering files and tools using command lines. It's also out-of-the-box in the sense that, contrasting hacking games like [i]Hacknet[/i] or the superb [i]Nite Team 4[/i], this game focuses a lot on riddles and puzzles, which often require you to use external sources. After an evening of playing this game, you'll be left with a long list of written notes and at least a dozen of opened browser tabs. I highly recommend this game to lovers of the puzzle-slash-hacking genre.
Super interesting concept that I haven't really encountered in many other places. You'll feel like a hacker! Also, some things require you to look up things online (not like a guide, but IMDB or other archived information). I found this to be a really cool and interesting feature despite others not seeming to enjoy it.
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