Cyber Manhunt 2: New World Prologue Impressions
Cyber Manhunt 2: New World is a hacking puzzle game developed by Aluba Studio and published by Spiral Up Games. I have not played many puzzle games like this one. But from my experience with its prologue. It shaped up to be very enjoyable and easy to understand. But is it worth your time? Well, in my short time cyber sleuthing? It very much is.
Hello World
In Cyber Manhunt 2: New World you play as an AI detective. You are rebooted to assist Ashley Clayson, the Chief Information Office for a company called Titan as she looks investigates suspicious individuals in her company and strange happenings at Titan itself. So, it is up to you to investigate with an array of various and interesting tools and see what’s going on. For starters, the game placing you into the narrative as an AI is very smart. As this allows you to feel more heartless as you look into social media accounts, hack their phones and decrypt their passwords.
You are a tool whose sole reason is to just do what you are told, and you cannot deviate from that. When you finish investigations, you even have to infer what’s going on. As well as deduce whether or not something malicious is happening. From the small time I played of the game, it is very clear there is going to be a lot of crazy stuff happening. Considering the first chapter after the prologue starts with a bombing threat. I am very intrigued in the narrative and cannot wait to see where it leads.
Seeing Red in Cyber Manhunt 2: New World
When investigating you have 6 tools at your disposal. Emails to help guide you on what you should be. With a browser to search up people and their history. As well as a couple of hacking and phishing tools. When you are looking into people you will find certain sentences or terms, that when you hover over with your mouse, will be highlighted in red.
This will give you various bits of information to harvest and use in your investigations. What you find can be used to hack into personal accounts of certain individuals. From there you can see emails, chats, texts and contacts in their phone. You will have to collect various clues that the game can give you hints towards. Everything from seeing their phone password in notes and dragging the cursor around the number pad to unlock it, to hacking into very personal conversations in a very strict mini game. Where you have to harvest an amount of data in real time with little room for error.
All it feels creepy and very uncomfortable to me. Considering it seems very real. The phishing stuff even makes me question if this all really happens like this.
Closing Remarks and Recommendation
Cyber Manhunt 2: New World is honestly a very new, but very easy to pick up on experience for me. Treating it as a second interface while I am on my PC feels very comfortable. Even if the stuff I am doing in the game is not very comfortable for me. Right now, the game is temporarily on sale for $8.99 USD, and I recommend giving it a go if anything you’ve read can click with you gameplay wise. There is a lot of systems to grasp, but once you understand what you are doing? It all clicks into place. The game so far has no noticeable bugs, or glitches of any kind. I did not experience any freezing and no crashes. So, it is a very rock solid and not demanding experience.
A game key was provided for these impressions. Special thanks to the developers.