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.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth

.Hack//G.U. simulates a massively multiplayer online role-playing game; players assume the role of a participant in a fictional game called The World. While in The World, the player controls the on-screen…

68 18 May 2006

.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth is a role-playing (rpg) developed by CyberConnect2, released 18 May 2006 on PlayStation 2.

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What .Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth is

.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by CyberConnect2 and released in 2006. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

.hack//G.U. takes place in an alternate version of Earth in the year 2017. As depicted in the first .hack game series, the "2nd Network Crisis" was an incident that occurred seven years ago in which many computer systems across Japan malfunctioned. Through the efforts of those games' hero, Kite, the incident resulted in the birth of Aura, the ultimate artificial intelligence (AI), capable of making decisions for itself. Under the guidance of Aura, The World, the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game at the time, flourishes and the events of .hack//Legend of the Twilight occur during this four-year period. In late 2014, Aura disappears, resulting in the slow decay of…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the .Hack series

.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth is the ninth of 18 entries we hold in the .Hack series. The next entry was .Hack//G.U. Vol. 2: Reminisce in 2006. Its critic score of 68 is almost exactly the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is .Hack//G.U. Last Recode at 74.

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How it was received

.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth launched on 18 May 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money and Heroes of Might and Magic V. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V.

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When did .Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth come out?
.Hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth was released on 18 May 2006 for PlayStation 2.

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