I've played uplink and thought it was great, but not anywhere near realistic. Mindlink wasn't any more realistic and was way too easy and I got bored when cracking IPs faster than the game can give them to me. But this game is definitely tons more realistic. You have to be a geek even to understand any of it. You are presented with a terminal console, where you use unix commands to get what you need. This is as close as a game gets to the real thing at this point, without going on the internet and hacking a war server.

When i first played Uplink i was fascinated by the gameplay and the fact that you doesn't need a hightech graphic engine...but it was too easy
when i first played BS Hacker i was stunned...it combined the best parts of uplink with new things like th commando interpreter etc
i just love it!