Enter the Matrix (computer game)

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Ushgarak
I don't know how many of you have seen the deal with this, or even played it. I do not know if the game is any good, either. But I thought the concept behind it was worth some merit.

For those of you who do not know, 'Enter the Matrix' is the new Matrix computer game, a ghame in the style of Max Payne (unsurprising, as Payne was in the styler of the original Matrix film complete with bullet time)

However, the important bit is the way that this is the most integrated film/game project I have ever seen. This is not just a lazy association or tie-in, it is directly linked to the film in all ways. The scenes in it are considered canon scenes taking place at the same time as the film (whilst the camera is elsewhere), controlling one of two characters from the film, affecting film plotlines. It contains film footage of the plotline that I believe is not used in the film, the plot was written by the two brothers, the scenes directed by the two brothers, all being shot around the same time the film was (unsurprising, seeing as it is part of the general plot with the same people!)

It also links the animated short "Last Flight of the Osiris" to the main film plot, or that was the impression I got from the trailer, anyhow.

It could be that the game is crap, of course, but the stylistic idea behind it all strikes me as very wonderful. Maybe more games of movies can be constructed with such close harmony in mind in future?

justinday15
I think the game is fun, but i wish u could be neo or morphous, you only get to choose from Ghost and Niobi.

darkmavrick
I think niobi is all u need to beat the game , she is who is used to beat it

chico23
Yeah the plot does tie in and does shine some light on a few Reloaded questions. Nonetheless, like Reloaded, makes many more questions as well.

As far as Game play goes it has a crapload of cut scenes and in my opinion is awesome to look at and watch, but is not going to when any game play awards. Its a fun game especially if you like the Matrix Reloaded, but for hardcore gamers its mediocre at best.

Tevesh
i'm a pretty hardcore gamer, but i'm gonna get it nonetheless. i loved the matrix, and i know they've put a lot of effort into the game. they've shot over an hours worth of footage for the game itself, and i've seen documentaries and such. this is supposed to be just plain awesome. everysingle movement in the game has been taken from real life. real actors who did all the fighting moves all the running, all the walking, all the crazy other stuff, what ever you can do in the game, someone did it in real life, and they took that to a computer. that's just amazing. i'm going to get it regardless

chico23
Oh yeah I would recommend it to anyone who loves the Matrix, I just didn't want anyone to go in expecting solid game play. Visually its amazing!

Dexx
i think the game's good. Even only for those bullet times. What would have max payne been without them...a massive killing.
Doubt the thing's gonna work on my pc..and it takes 3gb of hard space...
(i have a pretty bad organised HDD)

Ushgarak
Max Payne DID become a tadette repetitive anyway... I think it must win the 'most used quick save' award because no-one could be arsed to go through bits they had already done again.

jimbo3
Does the game tell us anything new about the matrix?

Dexx
I saw the trailer and the fights are..well..more than ok...
Doubt i'll care much about the story..but yeah..it should

turin
well the game is supposed to be tied in with the movie unlike any other game before. i just bought it last night and from what i have seen so far it is pretty cool, it has a lot of footage from the movie, sort of, i should say footage that was filmed specifically for the game. when you start the game there is like a 10 minute intro tying the footage in with the game play. its pretty sweet but i hope i dont have to watch it everytime i turn it on.

Captain REX
A girl that works for my dad is married to a guy that worked on 'Enter the Matrix'.

It looks like it will hit the console systems too. Blockbuster already has it in stock for GameCube.

cookies2006
Its really good but a little to easy to beat.

Captain REX
Good, I like easy to beat but showy games. big grin

The guy I know that worked on the cut scenes said there would be 6 discs for the game. That was about a year ago though.

cookies2006
Nope only one. With the exception of the Gamecube version. Which has 2.

Darth Vicious
jUST ONE QUESTION, WhoIs Ghost???????

Darth Vicious
WOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I STOPPED BEING AN UNDERSTUDY, WEEEEEEEEEEEPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Tevesh
Ghost is the asian guy who's friends with Niobe, or at least is on her ship. cube uses less discs because they use the dvd type mini discs which hold way more information

Ushgarak
And I believe he is a guns specialist (whilst Niobe is a driver). Or maybe the other way around. Ummm...

turin
your right about the niobe driver and ghost a gun spec. so far the game is alright. it is awesome fighting but there just seems to be something missing from it.

Dexx
naah..you're just hungrystick out tongue...happens all the time. But the solution's pretty simple....you just stretch out to the fridge and a whole new world is unleashed..and then the game runs perfectly.
I forget to eat aaaaall the timewink

Ushgarak
Anyway, the quality of the game being an understandable variable, do people think such close co-operation with films is a good thing? Will we see more of it in future?

turin
well i have seen a lot of games that relate to movies that have come out recently. i dont know if it is a good thing, it is exciting to play out portions of films, but the cutaway to movie footage and such slows down game play. in the matrix game i have found that a couple of times when it gets real intense it cuts away to footage and such, kind of disappointing.
also my fridge has nothing in it, call up dominos dexx and send me a pizza smile

Captain REX
Domino Dexx? I sense a new pizza company coming on...

Dexx
yeah...so how much diskspace does it take? If it's under 2 Gb i can ask someone to bring it..and MAYBE it'll work. But if it's not, well...my HD has a pretty lousy organising..doubt i'll find the space.

Clee
i have completed it with both characters and what i wanna know is this: at the end of the game the logos uses its EMP to stop the sentinals, could this b an explanation 4 the end of reloaded?

Giobbi
embarrasment

Well... the gameplay of this game is pure shit, like almost all movies tie in.

Stay away from it.

Good games are Metroid, Zelda or Pikmin, not this sh*it. big grin

mah
yeah, the fights are good. levels are crap, AI crap, graphics crap, car levels crap.

turin
way to put my thoughts into words Mah smile i havent beaten the game yet, i have found it to hard to just sit down and play for extended periods, but i guess that could be an explanation for the end of the film except that if it was the Logos that used the EMP wouldnt it have effected the logos itself?

Captain REX
I wouldn't know...

btw, Giobbi, Pikmin was boring, and I beat Metroid Prime and Zelda: Wind Waker.

hayden's minx
I got that today on Xbox it blew me away - Niobi is great. The storyline is good and the mix on cinematics and graphics is great. wow!

Tevesh
gggrrrr! need....to...wait...for...two...weeks...to....get...paycheck and buy enter the matrix....not having money sucks and blows at the same time!

hayden's minx
Has NE1 got any cheats for getting videos? here are some that I got for in game stuff, but no one needs them.

IMPORTANT: to open cheats type: CHEAT.EXE
before every cheat number, enter CHEAT
(you have to put the word help then type CHEAT.exe after that look for the word cheat on the side and input the cheatcode)
Infinite Ammo: 1DDF2556
Maximum Firepower: 0034AFFF
Focus Restored fast: FFF0020A
Unlimited Health: 7F4DF451
Enemies can not See You: FFFFFFF1
Turbo: FF00001A
Infinite Focus: 69E5D9E4
Moon Gravity: BB013FFF
Enemies Can Not hear You: 4516DF45

Icharus
How can anyone say this game is CRAP!?! It's easily one of my favorite and best games in my collection - especially with the hacking mode - and thats with a collection including; GTA Vice City, Splinter Cell, Final Fantasy X, Devil May Cry, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven and Vitua Fighter. DON'T START ME OFF ON THIS 'CRAP' BULL - I KNOW COMPUTER GAMES!

KidRock
Not sure about the Cube or PC version but I beat the ps2 and xbox versions. XBox version is SOOO GOOD. Ps2 is realllly good to.

cube42
Look you silly people. Enter the matrix is fantaaaaaaaaaaastic!

The FOCUS power is brilliant and the kinda moves these people pull off in that game. Mmmmmm "i know kung fu" hehe! My favourite moves are either doing a cartwheel while shooting at peeps or jumping forward and shooting at peeps (both in focus mode of course!)

the problem with the game is that it is FAR too short - I completed it in one day!

The problem with the movie tie in is they can't afford to give away the films ending or too much of the films plot - as a result you don't really know what is going on during the game and you get very frustrated at ending the game down a hole somewhere. Having said how much i loved the game, the last level where you shoot/drive away from the setinels was RUBBISH! i think the end may have been a teensy bit rushed.

Still haven't finished it on HARD mode - but then again I AM supposed to be revising for exams at uni! :s

Captain REX
Short game eh? sad Still great though, from what I'm hearing. smile

turin
i dont think it is a great game. true the game play is awesome but the actual levels and tasks you have to do kind of suck.

ziro-cool
hey matrix revolution is gonner boom us 8]

nothing is gonner be bigger then matrix...

from Danmark

Chaos
Yeh, I agree this game ****in rocks big grin
Graphics arnt to good on the PC (even with a good machine) but the story line is sw33t cool

There are loads of bugs i've found. Including one that annoys me...
On the level 'CONTROL ROOM' (on the airport thingy) it doesnt load... I click load my game, my character jacks-in and I see the loading screen, then the game closes it self ? sad
I've got the new update (v1.52)

Please gimme some help Happy Dance

Captain REX
Must be something wrong with the game if it doesn't load and then closes itself.

Tevesh
Got the game. so far it's pretty good. i like it. Though i have to say that it's not completely new or mindblowing.

Max Payne was the first game to introduce bullet time, and that made the game, in addition to it's good plot, excellent, thought a bit short.

Jedi Knight II was amazing as well because it was the first game where you could use force powers!

Enter the Matrix Is a bit of a combination between the two. More Max Payne than JK2. (Focus || Force). I suppose the thing that's supposed to make this game so much better is the plot. unfortunetely i haven't gotten too far into the game. The fighting is AMAZING though. The manuvers and punching/kicking animations are just great. There hasn't been a game with this smooth hand to hand combat fighting ever.

chico23
I like the combinations you can do in "bullet time". Making better combos/wall flips/ect. is better than Max Payne.

The game is a bit easy too sad

Ushgarak
Right, that's it. I am sick of people talking about it; I am off to get it. Here's hoping the PC glitches I have been hearing about are solved.

And I am going to play Ghost because I felt sorry for him in the film.

"Hey, as I am in the game, can I have a decent role in the fi..."

"NO! You stand at the back, you get abou two lines IF you are lucky! DEAL with it! And now, back to our plans to kill Marcus Chong..."

Galilee
I thought the game was a let down. they could have done so much more with it. It was really just a matter of run around, kill all that moves, THE END. It had that "lets rush a game out and make a ton of cash" feel about it. With the plot and depth of The Matrix films, i would have thought a much more "in depth" game would have been possible. Maybe a cross between Deus Ex and Splinter Cell?? Maybe someone out there will make a "Real" tie in game.

ziro-cool
hey Clee

i think that you had to se matrix revolution...

and that is not uot B4 novenber...

se you on the flip side:P

turin
k i am having problems with the game. i am stuck on the board where you fight the agent in the plane. everytime i run to jump off i get nocked back in. i fought the agent for 1/2 hour one time then finally it allowed me to jump out the back of the plane and despite having the parachute i died, so also how do you use the chute?

Ushgarak
Frankly I cannot see a Matrix game being anything OTHER than all action.

I stuck it on hard because people are saying it is too short but that SWAT helicopter is an arse...

Captain REX
So, are you going to buy it Ush?

Ushgarak
I got it today.

DAMN helicopter! And due to graphics glitches I cannot see it in the rather dodgy first person mode to shoot it. Am I going to have to go through again on a lower difficulty? Bum bum bum bum bum...

GoldenSpike
The copter is hard to work out to start with, but after trying it for about 1/2 hour i found out a great strategy.

When the copter comes round firing, its nigh on impossible to not get shot a few times, so you need to hide behind the wall on the right of the room (the wall right infront of you when you start the level), then when the copter stops firing, go onto focus and fire as many bullets at the copter as you can, keeping some for the drop in. Then for the drop in, just before they come in throw a stun grenade and use the focus thing and kill em all. Go back to the right hand wall again and do the same as before, do this as many times as need be to bring down the copter smile


Hope this has helped! smile

Tevesh
I have the pc game. one complaint i have so far is that Niobi's trench coat (parts of it) flicker. The texture of her coat doesn't show on these parts and they flicker. I know it's not my video card "unable" to handle it. I have a Ge Force 4 Ti 4200. Perhaps I need to download a patch?

Another complaint i have is that all the video options are only available for you to change when you first initialize the game, not during gameplay. So if you set the video a certain way, and end up not liking it, you have to quit out of the game and restart it to get to the video
options.

Last complaint is certain parts in certain levels, the camera angle is very jumpy. It doesn't want to stay in the same place.

Other than these, the game is great. And all the Bullet time combos you can do are great. My favorites are jumping off the wall and roundhousing someone and watching them spin and spin and spin until they hit the floor. Another one Really like is where you sweep their feet up and around, they turn sideways, still in the air, and you slam your fist into their gut sending them flying for a coupla feet

Tevesh
Hey Turin,

Did you knock the agent off the plane first?

That's the only way you can kill him. and then you're good to jump out the plane. That level was a pain for me because everytime i got close to knocking him off and did knock him off, i fell with him

turin
ya on my way home from work i realized, duh... maybe instead of jumping off first chance i get i should try nocking him off, yep thats how you do it, i am an idiot.

Tevesh
haha...no. it took me a while too

Ushgarak
Thanks, Goldenspike, but the problem is as I cannot see the helicopter out of the window due to that glitch, I have to rely on auto-aim to hit it. And on hard difficulty that means I can onlly take off about 10% of its health on each pass, not the roughly 50% I understand I should be able to, blasting two clips into it on normal difficulty. That means I have to fight off the four drop-ins nine or ten times without regaining any health. Which just isn't practical.

Shame about those little glitches. Oh well.

GoldenSpike
Do you have a console version?

Chaos
Could someone send me there save pls... It's in your 'saved/' dir big grin
Send to my email or just upload it to the forum wink

Happy Dance

Is anyone intrested in making some MODs for this game with me roll eyes (sarcastic)

Happy Dance

Ushgarak
Nah, PC version. Could be a hundred points at which it is not displaying properly from card to drivers to game.

GoldenSpike
Thats why I bought the Xbox version, best console version you can get smile

Ushgarak
I have cheated to get past that point. Throw stones at me if you will.

GoldenSpike
*collects stones from back garden*

Ushgarak
I will go back and do it again once it is patched so it works, or I get a better computer...

Tevesh
Well DAMN! I just beat the game at 5 in the morning as Niobe. Goddamn running from all the Agent Smiths was a pain in the ass. And it's not as if there's only one point at which you have to do that, there's like 4 FREAKIN stages! The upgraded agents were freakin easy compared to Smith, plus there's more than one Smith, there's like 6 of him! Now I'm gonna try to beat the game as Ghost...I played Niobe on normal, btw. I have to say my favorite part was the highway chase scene...probably because it made me feel as if i were partaking in the actual movie. I need to get that patch, maybe that'll fix my little video glitches.


Playing as Niobe, who else thought when Persephone and Niobe started kissing was hot?




Hey Ush, what kinda video card do you have...er actually, what are the specs on your computer, you may not have to get a whole new computer, just a new video card and maybe some RAM.

turin
i dont beleive you tevesh about the niobe kiss thing

(-mental note; hurry home, hurry and beat game to see the two kiss)

Tevesh
yea..i was pretty skeptical myself when


Niobe entered this room and Persephone was there. Then Persephone gets up and and is like, there is only one thing i enjoy more, that is love. I once used to be loved. I know that you love a man. Kiss me as if you were kissing him...
It was pretty much the same dialogue between her and Niobe that there was between her and Neo...still though. it was pretty hot.

turin
sweet, was it computer people or movie footage (please be footage, even though i doubt Jada smith would do that)

Dexx
i've finally played it a friend. It's great. Must say..i was a lil disappointed with the graphics at first...but it's ok after you play it a while.
The fights are great. NIobe kicks ass waaaaay nicer than ghost..she drives better also.
The fights with the agents are great..

Tevesh
turin, it's actual footage, not computer animated

Ushgarak
Oooh ya, it's real. Mind you, I have only done it with Ghost. Poor guy being overlooked! He's man enough for anyone, surely?

turin
sweet how far into the game is it? i am right now stuck in the sewers where i have to protect the two rebels on the bridge, its kind of kicking my butt right now. do you have to go into 1st person mode? i am ussually out of ammo pretty quick.

Chaos
Do you get differant moves for differant characters ?

Tevesh
yeah. you have to go into first person mode. it was pretty tricky. do you have the pc version of the game? I did and the mouse movement isn't smooth at all in first person mode, so it was hard to track the swat teams. what i did was go to the options and turn my mouse sensivity way down for that one part and managed to do ok.

as for the kissing scene, you're pretty close. i won't spoil what happens in the game for you, but it's coming up.

Chaos
Oh, OK sweet cool

Hehe, havent got past that part yet, i carnt start the game up sad
Could you PLEASE upload your save ? sad

I've seen the kick ass kissing part big grin
Couldnt wait, so took a look in the directorys :P

Dexx
i would enjoy the game too much to just skip it like that. it's very fun for playing

Ushgarak
PC first person view is a pile of arse. Poor conversion quality, I suspect.

evilelvis
any 1 know if theirs gona be another game to tie in with the next matrix?

Celsius
for sure!
the wachowski brothers know, that even if they bring out a blank disc that says that its the matrix game, people will buy it, so they will definately bring out a second one. I suspect that it will be much better than the first.

ps: i have a sword xxxxx>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Ushgarak
Yes, plans for 'The Matrix Online' are well underway and there are even screenshots available.

Celsius
another thought.
the brothers made the graphics a little worse so theat it would run on older pc's, thus more sweet smelling money. $$$$$ smile

Ushgarak
Ironically, though, it doesn't work very wll on older PCs...

Celsius
is neo playable? i know about all the skin changing crap, but that leave you with ghosts moves.

Celsius
it does on my friends penyiun 2 800 megahurts 128 ram geeforce 2

Celsius
HEY!!!!!!!!!!
do you know the forum that talks about neo being a playable character. i saw u there this morning. please tell mee which forum it is. i kinda lost the link.

Celsius
not may people at this forum.
sad

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