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Hard Reset

In the only remaining human city of Bezoar, Major Fletcher, an Army Combat Veteran and soldier of the CLN, is dragged into a conflict between two of mankind's greatest enemies. He is to discover that nothing…

70 13 September 2011

Hard Reset is an indie developed by Flying Wild Hog, released 13 September 2011 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Hard Reset is

Hard Reset is an indie game developed by Flying Wild Hog and released in 2011. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hard Reset is a 2011 first-person shooter game developed by Flying Wild Hog and released for Windows in September 2011. The game features a cyberpunk plot within a dystopian world, and draws inspiration from the works of William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Philip K. Dick to create its story, setting and atmosphere.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 115 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Hard Reset holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 69, across 66 votes.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon 64, 2 GB of RAM and 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Hard Reset launched on 13 September 2011, within three weeks of Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.

Cheats and codes

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

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Hard Reset — frequently asked questions

When did Hard Reset come out?
Hard Reset was released on 13 September 2011 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Hard Reset?
At minimum, Hard Reset needs 2.5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon 64, 2 GB of RAM, 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 3870 or better graphics, 4 GB free hard drive space of storage.
How many GB is Hard Reset?
The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4 GB free hard drive space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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