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Follow the White Rabbit Again....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

At first, I was apprehensive of playing this title. Most of the time, games based from movies, TV shows, and cartoons are nowhere near the same calibre as that of originals. They're just a way for the companies that franchise the name to make a quick buck. But that all changed when I got behind the controller and entered the Matrix....

Enter the Matrix features some of the best animated martial arts I've seen in a game. The real-life mapping of the moves leaves you laughing in astonishment as your characters punch, kick, and flip enemies with incredible accuracy. The game also features a slew of guns, from pistols, to submachineguns, even sniper rifles and grenades, all used to dispatch your foes. Plus, it features a gauge similar to that of Max Payne's "Bullet Time" where you can slow the action down to dodge gunfire and perform even more stunning hand-to-hand combat moves on your opponents.

Rent this game if you can. It will definitly be worth your time to check it out. And, if you're happy there, go ahead and buy it!

Do you want to be taking for a ride?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I must tell you that this game is worse than bad. You would be foolish to buy it. Nothing has sickened me more than having to pay for a game which has been rushed out to meet a demand. It is demeaning to think that a multi-national corporation can put such low quality merchandise on the market. The price that you pay for this game would be better spent on food! I will say that the game is alright......for a two year old. The levels have been designed without any thought to gameplay. The controls are basic at best, woeful at their worst. The graphics are fine, yet there is no concept of physics. Have we been given a beta-copy for the price of the full game? This is a merchandising ploy that has been brought out to get a return for the money that has already been layed out by the movie company involved. How can something so bad be brought out? This tie-in has to be the worst piece of merchandising that I have ever bought. I actually returned it after 3 hours of playing because it was so bad. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE!

There is no glitch...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In most videogame magazines, Enter the Matrix (ETM) received mediocre scores, most of them in the 50%-60% range. The reason for these scores, the writers attest, is that the game is "glitchy, filled with bugs, unpolished, and just feels unfinished." It is because I so strongly object to these reviews that I decided to write one of my own.
Let me start this review by saying that I am twelve years old, so many would say that I don't even have the authority to argue with professional game critics. If you are in this mindset, just stop reading.
I've seen the entire Matrix trilogy (despite my age, my parents feel that no negative influences could seep into me from this trilogy. They're quite down-to-earth.), and this game's action sequences are right up there with the best in-matrix scenes from any of the movies. This means as good as the government lobby shootout (which is parodied in the game, by the way), the burly brawl, Neo's fight with Seraph... hell, everything!
I'm skirting controversy and assassination attempts here, but I say with conviction that the bullet-time mode in Enter the Matrix is better than the bullet-time mode in Max Payne 2. Why? Because, intrigued reader, in ETM you can easily see, and therefor dodge, bullets. You can dive and cartwheel all over the place, laying down ridiculous amounts of Teflon-coated death. The only dissapointment is that agents cannot perform similar stunts, but I understand that this would be hard to put in the game.
As a third degree brown belt in karate and with knowledge of several kung-fu katas, I can safely say that this game's martial arts engine is realistic, good looking, and actually quite fun. Which is good, because it makes the boss fights icredible to watch.
As for the gunplay, your character automatically locks on, leaving you free to select your weapon and rip off some rounds while running on walls, diving backward and shooting between your legs, and many other awesome, inspired moves.
The weapons are as follows:
Pistols: 9000S, 92FS, .380 MUSTANG, 1911 .45CAL, P229 S, .50AE.
Machine Pistols: MAC-11, 18C AUTOMATIC PISTOL, MP5X (XBOX only).
Shotguns: 590 ENTRY SHOTGUN, STREET SWEEPER SHOTGUN.
Submachine Guns: UMP, MP5-N.
Machine Guns: RO635, M16 COMMANDO, G36, SG-552 COMMANDO.
Sniper Rifles: 33SG/1 SNIPER RIFLE, M95 SNIPER RIFLE.

There are also three special weapons and one incredibly sweet secret weapon for Niobe.
I have beaten the game at least once on every difficulty level, and I have only experienced two glitches: one, I got stuck in an escalator, and two, I pressed fire and lost ammo, but no bullet came out of the gun.
So in conclusion, I believe that Enter the Matrix is a game worthy of your money, and if you're a Matrix fan, then you'll appreciate it even more.

In one word, disappointing

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

When people ask me how I liked this game, I just have to shake my head in disappointment, I mean this game could of been one of the greats along side Zelda, Metal Gear, and Grand Theft Auto but instead its just another mediocre video game that looks obivously rushed out. Levels are bland at best, unimpressive graphics, and I even get out-of-sync voice tracks, like the actors are double speaking, that's totally inexcuseable. If it wasn't for the Watchoski brothers story then this game would of been easliy a two-star game or even a one-star. Gameplay leaves alot to be desired too, sure the bullet-time action sequences are cool, but after ten minutes and doing all the cool moves that you can and trust me it'll only take ten minutes to do all the moves in Enter the Matrix you'll just be going around shooting everybody. So if you are a big Matrix fan like me, then purchase the game just for the story alone. But if you were hoping this game would dethrone GTA: Vice City as king of the gaming world then this game falls considerably short of that task.

Darn great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think this is one of the greatest games I've ever played I just can't stop playing although at times it can be boring because I have completed the game so many times it is still fun to grab a grenade launcher and watch a smith fall to his death or grab dual automatic pistols and blast away.Also it's fun to put in cheat codes and simply walk up to an agent and throw him off a roof.Personally I love to put in the cheat Infinite focus and jump, leap, roll, flip etc. 69E5D9E4 (infinite focus).

Three and a Half Stars - True to the Matrix

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

When Enter the Matrix came out alongside the Matrix Reloaded, it got caught up in all the disappointment surrounding the movie sequel, and was bombarded with negative reviews from critics. Well, neither the two movie sequels nor the game deserve all of the criticism they often get, and, at a low price, Enter the Matrix warrants a purhase.
You play as either Ghost or Niobe, (two comparitively minor characters from Reloaded and Revolutions), through a story that begins before Reloaded, and weaves in and out of it, ending at the start of Revolutions. Through exclusive movie cut scenes, (which the Wachowski brothers wrote and filmed with all the real actors exclusively for this game - you won't find many of them anywhere else) some of the events in Reloaded are better explained.
As for the gameplay, it is played from a third-person perspective, and is generally quite fun. At worst, it is an average third-person shooter/beat 'em-up. At best, you ARE playing the Matrix films. Combat is divided up between shooting enemies with a handful of weapons, and hand-to-hand martial arts combat, just like the three films. By using Focus, (slow-mo, "bullet time") many more fancier moves become available. Dive in to a gun fight, propel off a nearby wall into a kick to the head, and of course, run along walls, and jump off guns blazing. Press against corners, and jump out to fire off a shot or two - the combat is generally fun, but the gunplay gets boring pretty quickly. Hand-to-hand combat is awesome though, and the animation is top-notch. During martial arts confrontations the camera will swing around to your side for a more cinematic feel, and rotate a bit like the fight scenes in the movies, but it won't interfere with the combat, since it's really just a button masher at its heart. Fun though, and true to the spirit of the films. Still, many of the moves, like hanging from pipes by your legs to shoot enemies below, will only be used once, if at all.
Also, occasionally you will run in to some glitches, and might even need to reset the game. Once it froze during a loading screen, and once my character got permanently stuck beneath the floor of an elevator I was supposed to be in. Annoying? Sure. But the glitches won't ruin your overall experience.
The graphics aren't anything special, but they certainly aren't horrible. Some of the in-game cinematics (the ones that use the in-game graphic's engine) look awful, but some of them look picture perfect.
What Enter the Matrix does best, however, is that it truly feels like the movies. Right down to the details. The green tint on all levels within the Matrix; the way pillars crumble when shot, and characters interact with the environment (throw a character in to a book shelf, and books will come tumbling out); the music, taken directly from the films, the costumes, and lighting; even the fitting (although boring) cheat system: computer hacking. Everything comes together to make this a very believable Matrix experience.
Some levels are far too short, and some aren't really fun at all, such as the sewer levels, but all in all, this is pretty much waht you'd expect from a game based on the Matrix.

Disapointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I preordered Enter The Matrix and recieved it on May 15. I wish I hadn't. ETM's plot runs parallel to the events of the Matrix Reloaded. The gameplay in this game I thought was very fun and exhilirating but soon got a little repetitive. What really brings this game down are the numerous bugs and pathetically designed driving and flying levels. Some of the many bugs include echoeing voices during cutscenes (making it virtually impossible to understand what they're saying), players actually can get stuck in one place, all because of a glitch. There are some parts on the game that actually freeze (everytime you get to that point) making it impossible to even complete the game, on some retail copies that is. The enviroments are lacking texture and depth. The levels are dull and unimagitave. The driving and flying missions are just horrendous. The driving physics are all out of wack; when you hit a bump you go flying in the air and normally land on your side or hit a wall. The flying mission lacked any kind of ingenuity. It was extremely easy and boring. After a time (on a normal mission) your health regenerates automatically making the game very easy. Although this game does have its upsides. It has nearly an hour of actual exclusive movie fotage, a cool cheat/hacking system, and awesome looking but easy to perform fighting. It took me about 4 hours to beat it with each character. Enter the Matrix is definatley worth a rental but not your hard earned 50 dollars.

Honest Opinion

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Enter the Matrix has tried to mix many different game style elements into one title which has resulted in mediocre gameplay. The strongest point of the game is that it shows exclusive footage filmed specifically for the game.

The action/exploring element of the game isn't actually that bad. You roam around large levels always with an objective, once you complete that objective you are usually given another then another, and so on. You can use various weapons, or punch and kick your enemies down. Included into this mix is the ability to focus, which slows time and allows you to perform special manuveurs while in this state.

Weak points are the level design is very plain, and not much creativity was put into the layout of the levels. Many times you will run past an area that looks exactly like another part of the level, because it is the same exact layout. Character models are not that impressive compared to what is being done on other games today. Niobe looks alot better then Ghost with her long coat, but Ghost looks very square in his outfits.

Sometimes you can go into a fighting stance, the camera angle changes to a side view of the combatants which makes the game appear to be a fighting game such as Tekken or Virtua Fighter. The fighting system they implemented during this change is very weak, best way to defeat your foes is mash the buttons not giving them a moment to hit back.

Some levels are driving sequences. Depending on which character you are using you might have to be the gunner, shooting any opposition while you tear along the road. Or you might be the driver, manuervering between traffic and calling on the gunner to fire when an enemy draws near. The driving physics are very skewed to reality. Sometimes you will fly through the air in your vehicle after having a heavy collision, this can happen often when enemies ram your vehicle.

Although the game is somewhat dull at certain points, the ability to use the focus ability and take on several enemies at a time is enteraining. Once you have mastered the controls and use focus wisely you are pretty much unstopabble which does make the game boring once you are good. Not a bad game for fans of the Matrix story, because you will get some background information about what is happenining int he Matrix universe. Not a good pick up if you're looking to spend your hard earned money on an long entertaining gaming experience.

Shiny Entertainment + Atari tripped and fell on this one

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I bought Enter The Matrix, I was a diehard fan. At first it seemed like the perfect game, with the hacking mode and great combination moves. But the more I played it, the less fun it was. For lack of replay value, this game loses a star. Also, the graphics are bad, the camera angles leave you confused, and getting stuck on walls (trust me, you don't want to find out) was extremely annoying, so there goes another star. That being said, this game has a number of good points. The dialogue is somewhat interesting to fans of the game, the game's ability to interpret your intent and modify your action ever so slightly to create the perfect knockout blow is impressive at times, and the ability to dodge bullets never really gets boring. But the quality control is a serious issue that makes a person wonder if Shiny and Atari ever bothered with a beta. This game is certainly worth a rent, but I wouldn't buy it unless you play it more than 5 hours and find yourself drooling, because otherwise you'll wish it only cost $15 and not $40.

Take the blue pill

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

At first, I found myself throughly enjoying enter the matrix, but after just 3 or 4 missions, I realized that gameplay consists of a simple pattern: walk into a room, kill everyone there, next room, same thing, end level. Sounds like alot of games, but enter the matrix really just doesn't have enough to it. The cutscenes between missions use the actual actors, so the game is really good for filling you in on the parts we didn't get to see with Reloaded, sadly though, thats really the only thing the game has going for it.

If you really like the matrix, its deffinetly worth a rental, but a purchase? I'd have to say, no. It gets boring very quickly, not worth your 50 bucks.

PROS:
Engaging, fun, cool looking combat.
Sweet weapons
Cutscenes with the actuall actors

CONS:
No real substance
Lags at times on PC, and even on the consoles.
FAR too short.
way to linear, no real environments.

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