🐳 23 years ago: Metal Slug 3 was released!

Hardwar

aka: Hardwar: Die Zukunft ist gierig, Hardwar: The Future is Greedy

Description official descriptions

The craters together is named Misplaced Optimism... And it's completely appropriate. Located on Titan, one of Saturn's moons, the colony started as a mining colony. As the wealth of mineral discovery spread, gangs moved in... until the whole place is held by two rival gangs, some misc. factions, and a lot of people caught inbetween, with no way out.

You are just one of the "moth" flyer owners, and you want to get out of this godforsaken hellhole, and the only way to do is to play the game... a mean game of survival.

Hardwar is a free-form and plot-driven game that was inspired by Elite and Privateer. Entire Misplace Optimism is simulated with other crafts moving about their own business, from transport to piracy to bounty hunters and more, and you can join them. Transport your own goods from source to destination to earn a profit. Chase down helpless merchant moths and cut them apart with your weapons and then retrieve their cargo. Chase down pirates and other evildoers on commission of the local police. Upgrade your craft with better components, software, or even new moth models. You can even own buildings in this game world, and charge others for repairs and such. Follow through the plot, where you need to undertake a few special missions, and you may even get a chance to escape this hellhole once and for all...

Groups +

Screenshots

Promos

Videos

See any errors or missing info for this game?

You can submit a correction, contribute trivia, add to a game group, add a related site or alternate title.

Credits (Windows version)

79 People (76 developers, 3 thanks) · View all

Developed by
Design/Producer
Creative Manager
Quality/Systems Manager
Technical Manager
Executive Producer
Sound Effects
Manual/Packaging
Localisation
Producer/Director (Video)
Camera Operator
Lighting Camera
Prop Construction
Make-up Desginer
Make-up Assistant
Costume Stylist
Script
Scenic Artist
Sound (Video)
[ full credits ]

Reviews

Trivia

Actors

Designer & Producer, Ade Carless actually appears in the game's videos as the Police Über-Clerk. The character Syd is played in the FMV clips by British television presenter Ben Shephard, early in his career.

Demo

The demo (while timed and limited to the Alpha crater) has a unique scenario

Extras

Some US releases included a Fragile Allegiance CD (full version - just a CD in a slip case) inside the box.

Hardluck

The Software Refinery released a small utility called "Hardluck" that toggles a 'Misc' tab on the main launch menu. There's several options available from this tab; For example you can browse for and play the videos from the game cd's("Spoiler Warning!"), enable some useful and fun Debug Keys, or create a text Log File for each game played which details all activity in the world

Options

You can actually purchase buildings in each of the craters by locating the real estate agent's location. You can also call for a taxi, buy new "moths" (the crafts you fly), get new weapons and equipment, smuggle (illegal substances of course), be a vigilante (track down/kill wanted moth drivers for police) by visiting the police HQ and get the wanted list, salvage dropped merchandise (if you have a retriever drone), borrow money from loan shark(s), pay fines (to clear your record with the police), trade with various enclaves and shops, hire on as mercenary for one of the factions in the game, upgrade your computer systems in the moth by finding a software house, and much more...

References

Some of the AI Pilots are named after the hacker aliases from the film Hackers (1995) starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie - Acid Burn, Crash Override, Zero Cool, Lord Nikon.

Soundtrack

The radio station in this game, HardWarp FM, is based on Warp Records, an independent electronic music label who did provide the tracks. Both CDs have five full length tracks and eleven short tracks. Here are the names and artists of the full length tracks:

CD1:

Track 2: Black Dog - Raxmus 3:05

Track 3: Black Dog - Chase The Manhattan 5:45

Track 4: LFO - Tied Up 5:21

Track 5: LFO - Shut Down 4:50

Track 6: Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel 9:43

CD2:

Track 2: RAC - Nine 3:47

Track 3: Autechre - Second Scepe 6:41

Track 4: Autechre - Clipper 8:12

Track 5: Squarepusher - Chin Hippy 3:16

Track 6: LFO - Tied Up 5:21

The last track on CD 2 is a recording of a group of the game's creators singing along to the final cutscene There's also this comment: "Right, so it's like, 3 in the morning, and we've like, finally finished the final version, er, oh hang on there's that singing bit..."

Information also contributed by Jack Lightbeard, Kasey Chang, neotiger and Zamppa

Related Games

Back to the Future: The Game
Released 2010 on Windows, Macintosh, Xbox 360...
Who is Oscar Lake?
Released 1996 on Windows 3.x, Macintosh, Windows
Paladins: Champions of the Realm - Future's End Pack
Released 2019 on Xbox One, Windows, PlayStation 4
Blitzkrieg
Released 2003 on Windows, 2008 on Macintosh
Miss Teri Tale: Vote 4 Me!
Released 2008 on Windows, 2010 on Macintosh
Ultraman
Released 1991 on Arcade, SNES, Genesis
Silverball
Released 1993 on DOS
Clusterball
Released 2000 on Windows

Related Sites +

Identifiers +

Contribute

Know about this game? Add your expertise to help preserve this entry in video game history!

Contributors to this Entry

Game added by cuchulainn.

Additional contributors: Vance, Rebound Boy, jnik, Kasey Chang, [email protected], Jack Lightbeard, Patrick Bregger.

Last modified February 22nd, 2023.