Hardwar: The Future is Greedy

by Interplay

Product Features

• Choose between 3 distinct professions: Aggressor, Trader or Scavenger
• Arcade dogfighting action. Some ships evade while other target you as easy mark
• 5 customizable vehicles to buy and configure to your needs
• 80 software and hardward upgarde affecing MOTH appearance and performance
• Up to 8 players via network or LAN [Windows 95/98]

Product Details

• ASIN: B0002CWQ0S
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,440 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Welcome to the city of misplaced optimism You're an Operative, a free agent and a speculator. Your home is the overcrowded and terminally-ill city of Misplaced Optimism, the last of the crater clusters on the barren mined-out Titan. Scanning the comms channel for salvage or sabotage jobs throughout the hostile network links, you aim to better your reputation, gain credit, enhance your Moth (your ship, your only real asset) and ultimately escape Titan, a fantasy for all but the most powerful and influential. You are free to do what you want within the solar-powered city. Lightwells which energize ships and power the craters are free but hotly contested and you can expect repercussions for any serious criminal behavior. It's always a question of who you know; if you scratch no one's back there's plenty waiting to stab yours. Your mainstay is delivery, escort and salvage but as your reputation grows you'll pick up more lucrative work like bounty, assassination and demolition. The pay-off is high and so are the risks, but to trade up to a Warp drive Moth with extensive firepower, on-board CPU, top comms and interplanetary capability, you need all the Hardwar you can get. HardWar's open-ended, non-linear gameplay will appeal to anyone who likes a lasting challenge. You have total freedom to choose which missions you want to take and which factions you work for or against. Job offers come your way via the constant chatter over the communications channel.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hardwar a visionary game unmatched yet., January 27, 2006

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Xaffax (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hardwar: The Future is Greedy (CD-ROM)

Even now 27-01-2006 I stil concider Hardwar (released 1998) to be the best game ever. The freeform game mechanics have been executed with such good judgement that it has not been surpassed by other freeform spacegames of the 21st century like I-warII. egosoft's X series or freelancer.

The setting of the game has a cult atmophere, it reminds strongly of the 2000ad comics and the cult film "Hardware". the cutscenes often related to a plotline you can choose to follow are done with great taste and black humor.

When you play you'll soon find that the AI in this game has a life of it's own. The AI characters have a job, a bankaccount friends and enemies and sometimes a bounty on their head. If you would do nothing they'd still go on with their busines and life goes on. This means that no two games you play wil ever be the same.

I can go on for hours about this game, but a friend of mine put it like this "If I devide the price I paid fro this game by the hours I've played it, no game would come close even if I had paid 200 euros".

I own 5 coppies of Hardwar just to make sure I'll never run out.

There is still a lively community of hardwar players and the programmers even bring out updates now and then even when the companies responsible (Gremlin and the software refinery) have faded long ago.

This game is a gem.

Xaffax out!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The soundtrack is copyrighted to Warp/EMI Virgin. What more needs to be said?, July 30, 2005

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T. D. Cruise "The Man, The Myth" (Englandia) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hardwar: The Future is Greedy (CD-ROM)

I can honestly say that Hardwar is one of the finest games I've played in my life. Sure, it's dated graphically, but the game is like Elite, but with gravity and solar power. And amazing music.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Cheap, March 11, 2011

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Benjamin Archambault (Jackson, TN) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Hardwar: The Future is Greedy (CD-ROM)

I originally bought Hardwar for a penny at EB Games. It just didn't do well when it came out.

I bought it again on Amazon after losing the discs ages ago. And it's still a great time. A patch that you can find on the Internet will give a mild graphics update along with support for newer systems (I run it on Windows 7 Home 32 bit) and widescreen monitors.

I can run it with no problems on all max settings on my Windows 7 machine. And it even accepts modern joysticks.

I've put in several hours of this game in the past week and it's more than 10 years old. That means it's a classic.

You can't find this game anywhere due to scrambled ownership/copyright rights, so I'd pick one up while you still can.

If you like X: Beyond the Frontier, you'll love Hardwar.