When did .Hack//Mutation come out?

.Hack//Mutation was released on 9 September 2002 for PlayStation 2.

.Hack//Mutation (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

.Hack//Mutation

.Hack//Mutation is the second of a series of four games, titled .hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine, features a "game within a game"; a fictional massively multiplayer…

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What .Hack//Mutation is

.Hack//Mutation is an adventure game developed by CyberConnect2 and released in 2002. It was published by Bandai. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kite and BlackRose return to Θ Chosen Hopeless Nothingness but find part of the area locked off. After a quick intervention with Balmung, the two return to Dun Loireag, where Kite is told that his Book of Law he won from the Level Up Campaign has an error that prevents it from being installed, so it is replaced with the Book of Absolute (which also cannot be installed). BlackRose claims to have never heard of the event. The two receive e-mails telling them to come to Θ Soaring Sky Bounded Abyss if they want to know more about the coma victims. It is actually a trap set up by system administrator Lios. Lios says that they should not pursue the matter any further and proceeds to delete Kite's…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the .Hack series

.Hack//Mutation is the second of 18 entries we hold in the .Hack series. The next entry was .Hack//Outbreak in 2002. Its critic score of 67 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//Mutation holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

.Hack//Mutation launched on 9 September 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Kingdom Hearts and Mafia. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Kingdom Hearts, Mafia.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for .Hack//Mutation yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer