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No No No

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Don't do it. Don't waste your money on this dog. I could not believe how terrible the graphics looked and how terribly the game controls were. I would not care if they somehow managed to put the whole Matrix reloaded movie into the game, still doesn't make up for the fact that you buy a game to play it, not watch it. Oh, and by the way, the movie was pretty silly also.

You got to try hard to find a game worse than this...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Remember all the hype surrounding this game before its release? Remember some fans of the Matrix and video games said that "it will change the gaming forever!!!" And what do we have here...? A piece of junk that is hardly a good game, not to mention breaking any ground.

First, the graphics. Everything is greeny, which is good because that's the way it is in the movie, but the blurry texture and low-poly enviroment, come on! This game would be very impressive in 1997, but not now.

Then the gameplay is extremely linear and offers 0 replay value. Linear is fine, since it could offer some excitement, but wrong again! The gameplay is very, very repetitive, and the combos are very very limited. No matter which character you choose to be, it doesn't make too much difference. The enviroment are boring and plain with no interaction whatsoever.

And the character animation is probably the most stupid of all games. Ghost and Niobe wave their limbs over the top of their head while running, and the speed is unfomfortably faster than Quake 3's deathmatch. The pistols spit out some bullet shells that's even thicker than the gun barrels, like they are sausages flying out of your guns whenever you fire some shots. The bullet time is done much better in Max Payne, and Max Payne offers much better graphics. And remember, Max Payne came long before this game.

And the sniper part of the game is just stupid... when do you ever "snipe" in the Matrix? You might, but that's not fun at all.

The story is just as bad, and really makes no difference to the story you have known from the movies. Unlike some fanboys on-line said, you are not Neo in this game.

I found this game as bad as it could get. But if you're looking fo some mindless beat'em up fun, or you're a Matrix fanboy, or collecting Matrix merchandise, or you want one because your friends around you have no decent taste on games and all bought one already and you don't want to fall behind the train of "mass-marketing", this game is for you.

Overhyped

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have to say this is probably the most overhyped game ever released and in no way did it live up to the hype generated before its release, which only made things worse.

Sure, the graphics are good and it has a lot of features. The problem is that the developers of this game neglected the most important aspect of gaming - GAMEPLAY. Let's face it, the game has great graphics but it's not fun to play. It's way to linear and the fighting and shooting system is very poorly designed with unnecessary features. If a game doesn't have good gameplay, then graphics, features, special effects and all that other nonsense means squat. It doesn't matter how realistic it looks or how many moves you can do, if the game is not fun to play then it's not worth buying. Even if a game's graphics look almost the same as real life, I would rather play an old 8-bit NES game if the new game has no gameplay and isn't fun to play.

It seems the developers of this game just hopped on the "let's spend 5 years on the graphics and features and completely neglect the gameplay" bandwagon that so many other developers are following nowadays. It didn't seem like they were trying to make a good game, it seemed more like they were trying to impress people with all the features and graphics and just create a lot of hype to deceive people into going out and buying a useless manufactured game. They wasted way too much time with unnecessary features instead of spending it on actually making the game bearable to play.

I remember off the Matrix DVD (I can't remember which one) in the features it had a preview of the making of the game and there was this woman bragging about how "This game is like no other, each character has over 300 individual moves, it has fighting, it has shooting, it has driving" or some cr*p like that (this is partly what I mean about hype).

1) What's the point of each character having "over 300 individual moves" if all you need to do to get through the game is a normal punch and kick? Normally, the purpose of special moves is to make it easier or quicker to defeat the enemy. However, in this game, just using normal moves is just as efficient as using special ones due to the poor design of the fighting system. I did many special moves during the game and I saw no benefit in doing them. In fact I found it easier just using normal punches and kicks or just pressing random buttons to get through the game and lost even less health using this method. Now why would a player remember the combinations to do all these special moves if there is no incentive to do them? So basically, all those hours that the developers spent on programming all these 300 moves amounts to nothing since the player is not even going to use 90% of them throughout the whole game. This game would have gotten a much higher rating if all those hours were spent on more simple and fundamental aspects of the game.

2) The driving is terrible. It's not what they hyped it up to be. There is rarely driving in the game and when there is it's pretty average and arcade style. I don't feel that I have to write much more on this aspect as most people who have played the game will agree. If you want good driving, then buy Gran Turismo or NFS.

3) Don't even get me started on the shooting. This has to be the absolute WORST aspect of the game and probably the worst shooting engine in any game for that matter. This aspect completely put me off the game. If it wasn't for this then I probably would have actually bothered to beat it. I mean, for Christ's sake, WHERE'S THE CROSSHAIR??? The default mode is 3rd person and you don't even have a crosshair to aim with (and it's not even an option). HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO AIM? It's simply way too hard to aim at someone in 3rd person without a crosshair. Sure, they have an "auto-aim" feature when you shoot in the enemy's general direction, that is, if your idea of auto-aim is bullets going 5 meters off target in random directions. I mean, I'm sitting there trying to shoot a simple guard, trying to aim in his general direction without the aid of a crosshair, emptying clips of bullets that just fly off in random directions anywhere apart from the enemy, the bullets looking like something off a playstation game. The only way to get a crosshair on the bloody screen is going into 1st person mode. Sure, that sounds alright. I mean, I'll just go into 1st person mode every time I see an enemy. But guess what? You can't even move in 1st person mode, which just makes it impossible to avoid being shot. And you know what else? For some unknown reason the developers decided to make the mouse around 50x more sensitive in 1st person mode than it is in 3rd person. Way to encourage people to aim. And you can't even change the sensitivity for 1st person mode alone so it will always be around 50x more sensitive than in 3rd person mode. And when you change it so that you can actually aim at someone in less than 1 minute in 1st person mode, it becomes so un-sensitive in 3rd person mode that it takes around 10 movements of the mouse across the mouse pad just to do a 360. In the end, it just gets to the point where it's easier to just run up to someone and kung-fu them. Due to its fundamental flaws, this aspect of the game ends up as useless as the "300 moves" I mentioned earlier. Once again, there is no incentive to use this aspect of the game. Why would someone sit there for 1 minute, emptying 5 clips of bullets just to kill a few enemies, when he/she could just run up to them and kung-fu them and kill them even quicker and with even less loss of health. Personally, I can't understand why the developers would spend so much time on designing 300 moves that the player is not even going to use and not even making an effort to fix the fundamental aspects of the game. I mean, surely the developers could have spent a couple of hours placing a simple crosshair on the screen, adjusting the mouse sensitivity and actually programming the bullets to hit their targets.

Overall, it seems that the developers tried to mix a few different genres of gaming but got none of them right. Also the gaming is way too linear. I mean, I've played plenty of linear games and enjoyed them (eg. Medal of Honor series) but this game takes it to a whole new level and just becomes plain boring. The whole game is pretty much based on running through and area, killing all the guards in it and going through a door to the next area. There is hardly any variation to this. No finding keys/items, no exploring areas, no secrets, just the same old linear path with fighting the same old enemies.

So in conclusion, the developers spend a lot of time on unnecessary features and graphics but this was not enough to save the game as it is fundamentally flawed in the crucial area of gameplay. The game mixes a wide range of gaming genres but fails to succeed in any of them, once again, due to poor gameplay. If the developers spent a little less time on ridiculously unnecessary features and a little more on the crucial area of gameplay this could have very well been a solid release. Unfortunately, it just became another poor movie-adaptation to add to the ever growing list.

You should Enter the Matrix, but a PC isn't the best place..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Enter the Matrix mainly follows events of Reloaded, from the perspective of 2 characters, Niobe and Ghost. Gunplay, Driving, Adventure and the trademark Bullet Time & Kung Fu, all feature here, but some aspects where done better than others.

Choose which character you want to be at the start of the game (Niobe or Ghost), and while the storylines do differ for each, some areas are the same for both characters which can be something of a disappointment. However areas to explore are vast and varied, and in some cases the setting helps add to the tension.
Note that in the Post Office shootout featured near the beginning of the game, the pillars crumble from gunshots and the design looks polished, but after this point, you start feeling the game was rushed slightly, notably with concerns to some AI and the driving sections.

The controls for this game can be gotten used to fairly quickly once you are familiar with the layout. However, I must say that they are better suited to a console system such as a PS2, and the mouse was not considered for targeting when shooting, which detracts from the user-friendly aspects of the game. Whether it is Kung Fu, driving, or shooting, controls remain consistent and are never too difficult.

Generally, graphical quality of this game does not fail to disappoint, but as I mentioned before, a slight rushjob is evident for driving scenes, which lack the same polish found in the game's early levels. A good point is, all characters featured in this game look like their counterparts. From the two main characters to the other featured characters (Smith/Seraph/Trinity), the likenesses couldn't be any better.

The motion of characters is superb. This becomes particularly important during combat, which has been done excellently. Punches and kicks flow together well, and I myself was surprised as I expected it to be somewhat rigid, but it was all smoothly captured. You have a limited amount of Focus (bullet time), but when it is used it allows for a number of extra stunts including scaling walls, faster powerful Kung Fu moves, and quicker, accurate shooting, and is visually as impressive as I had expected. Confronting an agent and firing at them is a bad idea, however, when they dodge, they don't blur like in the movies, instead they just bend very quickly, which doesn't look the same but is still perfectly bearable.

As for storyline, it is well thought out, and cutscenes illustrate what is going on very well. This all helps to detail the reasons why the characters do what they do in the game, rather than you just shooting and fighting without a reason. The characters' involvement, while not heavily featured in the movie, is key to the core storyline of the movie. It may or may not be enough to keep you interested, but both Niobe and Ghost are often doing something important (and risky) on which other characters depend, for example in the Chase Morpheus driving level. They never simply play minor roles, which is good.

In terms of replayability and content, this is both good and bad. After playing through the game as both characters, you can use codes that may be given to you upon completion in the Hacking section, which is essentially a command-line style interface where you can access 'drives', and view anything from character profiles, to information on weapons or codes for 'dropping' a weapon at a point in the game to pick up, and unlock features that affect the main game via entering or cracking of commands and codes.

While literally all of the features I had expected here were included, a feature was left out, which is included on every other system except PC: Multiplayer feature. for the console versions, Multiplayer allows 1-on-1 fights against another player, as a particular character which is automatically selected depending on the fight background. This features fights such as Trinity VS Niobe in the Dojo, or even Morpheus VS Smith in the Subway. How these could not be included is a mystery to me...

...but despite this, the PC version has an advantage over all other versions which makes up for lack of Multiplayer: Editing of character files. Because for the PC, you can view all the game's files in My Computer or Windows Explorer, this allows you to take a characters model/appearance (which is a .dcx file) and replace all the other files for either Ghost or Niobe's appearance which those of your choosing. This has to be done manually, and although it won't give you your chosen characters fighting moves, it will have their appearance, and allows you to play as characters not even featured in the Multiplayer for consoles, such as the albino Twins, or any of the agents (you can even edit other normally non-playable characters, like replace Sparks with Morpheus (!) This has to be done manually, so take a look at a character editing FAQ to learn how to do so.

With all the combinations you can have when editing, it could make the PC version last the longest of all versions of Enter The Matrix, but if you don't feel like tampering with the files/don't wan't to play as unplayable characters, and you have a console, I recommend you get this game for your PS2, Xbox or Gamecube. This may not be everyone's cup of tea, because from an unbiased point of view, it's hard to give a game of this type, a rating. It really depends on what aspects of a game you like and how much you're into the Matrix trilogy. Some may love it, some may hate it, so I'll settle for 3-star rating, but if you're a die-hard Matrix fan, and/or you don't have a games console, I would recommend this. In addition, those with some cash to spare who are absolute Matrix completists (or felt totally cheated that they couldn't play through the console game as the main characters of Reloaded), you could always get a second-hand copy of this and edit the game to your heart's content - Merovingian VS the Keymaker anyone?!

Pretty good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. Its graphics arent great, and you need a pretty good computer to run it. If you like The Matrix movies its worth having because now its price has dropped! Its too bad you can only play as Niobe and Ghost though...or wait with my new code you can play as Neo!!! and a bunch of other charactors!!! Here it is copy it down for if you get the game or if you already have the game

First open your enter the matrix folder(C:Programfiles\Infograms\Enter the Matix)
make a backup of the actors folder

Now find the "Ghost_Costume01.dcx" or Niobe_Costume01.dcx"
(there will be 6 of each of these files for Ghost and Niobe, 01,02,03 etc)

Drag all of those files to your desktop

Now find the file "Neo.dcx", make 6 copies of this file and paste them where your
Ghost or Niobe files were

Now you need to re-name your six Neo.dcx files to the names of the other files you
dragged to your desktop(Neo.dcx changes to "Ghost_Costume01.dcx" the next one to
Ghost_Costume02.dcx" and so on.

Be sure to still leave one extra Neo.dcx file in the folder

Other Charactors that work!!

AgentSmith.dcx
AgentJackson.dcx
AgentJohnson.dcx
AgentThompson.dcx
Morpheus_coat.dcx
Trinity_zen.dcx
Sparks.dcx
Keymaker.dcx
Seraph.dcx
Axel.dcx
Abel.dcx
Ballard.dcx
Bane.dcx
Cain.dcx
Cujo.dcx
Twin.dcx
Vector.dcx
Vlad.dcx
Worm.dcx
test.dcx

Kinda dissapointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying that I have not completed the game but I'm afraid that I may never actually reach the end. Why? The controls on this game stink. When manipulating my character I'm always fighting the controls, which have a tendency to move your gaze up to high or down to low. This occurs when just looking side to side and is absolutely terrible when in a fight. Otherwise, everything seems pretty cool with the game (graphics and story). I wonder if a game pad might solve the control problem. If not, I don't know if I can finish it. The contols are way to annoying and difficult.

Very ordinary

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There's nothing special about this game. It's cool to go into focus mode and dodge bullets, but the game itself isn't that great. I've heard great things about the console versions, and I believe them, I just think that the PC version was a rush job shipped out the door in a hurry. The camera angles just plain suck when you are in hand to hand combat, and it's hard to aim at enemies when kung fu-ing them with your fists. My kung fu battles were reduced to going into focus mode and charging my enemies, then wall-run kicking them, or kick them with a flying kick. That, or whip out your horribly inaccurate pistols and attemp to plug them full of lead. I have to admit, some of the massive fights are cool, but would be so much cooler if you could do more moves and combos. Speaking of combos, the manual says that there will be many, and that they will be easy to figure out, and it even give some examples. But they're extrodinarily hard to pull off, and even when you do, they don't pack the punch you'd expect. This game is also not very system-friendly, so unless you have a darn powerful rig, play it in safe mode. It's really too bad, because from the early screenshots, this game looked to be simply fantastic. However, now that I lay my hands on it, it's a rushed out the door mess. Too bad.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

C'mon!! it's 2003!!! cars in this game have square wheels! this game has 2001 graphics and game play is horrible! The idea for this game is phenomenal, but execution is big ZERO. Save your money.

Not worth the money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't understand what was the fuzz all over this game. It is the first game I've seen that uses 4 CDs, which doesn't mean anything, as the graphics and interface are bad. The movies you see in the TV commercials are about everything you see in between the missions that contain the original actors from the movie, the rest are pure cheap-rendered characters. The story doesn't relate to the movie. They say "you will understand everything much better". In my case, I didn't learn anything from playing this sucky game. Ok, so...you think the gameplay is good? The default camera is very limited, so they put a "first person" camera, which is laggy and doesn't let you hit anyone because of the same reason. The AIs are stupid, and arms and heads go right through walls! The controls are like the ones found in the late first person shooters, only that you don't have to THINK to play this. It has auto-aim (which cannot be disabled). I have 3 GHz processor, 512 DDR RAM, and an ATI 9200 professional video card, and this game still lags in sniper mode. It is pointless...

Bad, but not as bad as some people say

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Enter the Matrix had alot of potential to bethe next big action game. It had a Max Payne (which is a much better game) type Bullet Time thing, called Focus, and had scenes written by the Wachoski Bros. But many flaws make it a bad game
Pros
Scenes written by the Wachowskis
Focus is kind of cool, for a little bit
The Chateu level is pretty fun
Some nice graphics
2 full games
Lots of moves
Good voice acting
Cons
Poor level design, especialy the Power Plant and Sewer levels
Glitchy, glitchy graphics
Driving levels suck
Bad sound
Horible shooting controls
Badly placed camera

Overall
A game with alot of hype doesn't live up to it

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