You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for majorcorporations.Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems,stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money,erasing evidence, or framing innocent people. You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buynew software and tools. As your experience level increases you find moredangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate ona fully working stock market (and even influence its outcome). You canmodify peoples academic or criminal records. You can divert money frombank transfers into your own accounts. You can even take part in theconstruction of the most deadly computer virus ever designed.