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Prepare To Enter The Matrix!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: June 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Altough I was disapointed at the thought of not being able to play Neo, Morphieus of Trinity, the chracters (Niobe and Ghost) are just as good. Enter The Matrix has over an hour of never-seen-before Matrix footage. In the first Matrix, Neo and Trinity had to break their way through a room of security guards, well, this is just the same. Within about 5 mins of playing the game, half the cities police force is trying to kill you! The graphics rock, including the faces, which I read were scanned on to a computer,and glued on to the chracter. Like in the Matrix movies, both chracters have special Kung Fu abilities. A blow in the head with your fist is no way to handle things; You can press and hold focus and run at a wall to run on it, and kick the bad guys in the head. You start as Niobe/Ghost, trying to find a package at the post office, which is closing. The guards (and later on, The SWAT Team)attempt to kill you after 7 mins. Overall, this rocks

It is a good mindless shoot-em-up.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Many people are angry at the game because it gets repetitive. Hello, mindless shoot-em-up? That's how most of them go. It's no Max Payne 2, but it's still good. Most of the people that write bad reviews about this game are RPG fans and do not enjoy mindless killing. I love RPGs, but I also like shooters. You have to like mindless killing to like this game, and I, like many others, do.

For the story

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all I am not saying that you shouldn't buy this but if you do not like the way it looks don't buy it. It looks really good from what they Say, and the story is good. But the Graphics stink, and the car chasing scene and fighting effects aren't that good. But if you want to hear the story you have to buy it. So I would not recommend that you buy this game unless you really want to hear the story. But thats not all the camera views are not that good either and the characters are really jerky. The AI is not that good either. But it does have some good things also. The sound is good, the music is good, some fights are good, the controls are ok and the movies are good. I hope this review has been helpful.

Crashes and bugs.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had all kinds of errors with this game... you should buy it on the XBOX or some other system, not for the PC. I had problems installing it, installation takes very long with what, 4 CDs, and at the very end I had to repeat the whole installation process. Then I updated to the only patch available, and the game started, but the introduction cut scenes had major clipping problems, and, then, as soon as you get to the point where you are actually to start playing the game, it crashes to a blue screen, locking up the PC. I'm running Windows XP, and yes, I've been through all the troubleshooting steps, Atari is trying to pass the ball, all my drivers are updated, and every other DirectX game on my system runs flawlessly, but this one is seriously buggy. If you have to get if for the PC, wait a few months and hopefully Atari will come out with some more patches.

Wow.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't mean wow as in a good thing. I have been a PC Gamer for about 10 years now. I have played some bad games in my time, even horrible games. Enter the Matrix is the worst though. The story is nothing special and the control scheme is horrible. I found it impossible to move myself around with ease. The hacking segment of the game is an innovative idea but it is so poorly executed that you feel as though you are simply typing in random things.
Take my advice, if you want a cool shooter with bullet time dont get Enter The Matirx, spend your money on Max Payne which is waaay cheaper.

Unrealistically high system requirements!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My system:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53 GHz
1GB DDR RAM
2 40GB 7200RPM HDD's
Sound Blaster Live Platinum 5.1
ATI Rage Fury Pro 32MB AGP 4x

Apparently it won't run at all on my Video Card. I'm not even allowed to "dumb it down" to get it to play. But, this title play on PS2 and X-Box, and both of those consoles pale in comparison to the hardware I have. So, where's the logic in that?

The vidoe cards on both of those machines is a generation before the RAGE series from ATI.

Horrible programming, in my book. I had to return the game.

--Robert

Mediocre, frustrating

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I might otherwise have given this game two stars, but to see it's average rating up above that is a travesty.

The gameplay is spaztic, the slow-motion doesn't nearly do the movie effects justice, the automatic camera movement is *horrid, horrid, horrid*, the controls are herky-jerky at best and what is up with strafe *only* movement in first person mode?? No forward/backward unless in third person! We've been using forward/backward in first person for, oh, more than a decade? The aiming controls, don't get me started! Have we jumped so far back that we have to resort to auto-aim?

I am convenced anyone who gives this game more than three stars hasn't played it at all or at most for more than an hour. The problems are just too many to overlook.

No multiplayer, it was yanked probably because, like everything else about this game, it was rushed out the door. Some of the console versions, which they obviously worked on before the PC port, can have multiplayer enabled, but not the PC. Maybe some day in the future it will be enabled in a patch.

The graphics are *nothing* to write home about, *especially* when compared to some of the excellent incarnations of the Unreal and Q3 games out there. Return to Castle Wolfenstein had much, much, much better character detail and movement, for example.

You hear about how much money they threw at this game, I think that was mostly because they needed to just to get the game out the door in time and not because it includes anything remotely new or interesting. Everything done in this game has been done better in other games.

1-2 stars rating--*especially* at [the price]...

Should've been a movie...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All the bad things you read here are true. Those that say it's the best game or best fps don't play games or fps. The gameplay is mediocre at best, the graphics are passable, but nothing to get really excited about. However...
The game is worth enduring to get through the story. Despite what others say, the cutscenes/film clips are great. In fact, the character development, story and dialogue are better than Reloaded. The dialogue between Ghost and Trinity is more witty, ironic and entertaining than anything that has come out of either movie.
After completing about half the game, I decided to enable god mode because the gameplay was just getting in the way and I wanted to see the next cutscene. Taken with "The Final Flight of the Osiris", Enter the Matrix develops a great backstory and even has some plot points missing from Reloaded that will play heavily into Revolutions.

doesn't live up to hype

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The first level is repetitive and the second level turns into a jumping puzzle. The interface could use a lot of work (so much so that you can't even adjust the brightness without quitting the game and running their setup program). The game is also extremely buggy out of the box and you have to install the patch for the most mundane things (like being able to switch to windows, or use EAX sound).

too much hype, not enough game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I didn't like this game too much. The only thing I liked was the bullet time type fighting, but after a while it gets boring and so does the redundant fighting. It seems they just place you in a building, mumble something about why your there, and then 50 guys suddenly appear that you have to fight. Try another game.

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