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Dead. Boring.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game has good possibilities, but it is ruined by the lack of people on the two servers this game has. Everytime I logged in, all I saw was little to no one on. If people had been on, they were away from keyboard status or link dead. The actual system of the game is kinda cool, how you create your character, by selecting the powers and path you want to follow, but after the first few steps, it becomes confusing and you dont know where to go.... Pass on this one. If it becomes free, then pick it up.

The matrix has you .... and your credit card

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun, entertaining, and... customizable as heck. You can basically make your character look however on this green earth you want them to look. If you want a leather wearing cowboy by all means make one. Not to mention you get to enjoy the hyper jumping from the movie and other fun abilities. You can use bullet time on missions which makes for a good time. The game does however get boring after a few months even though it did have its own underground radio station for a while which addes to the fun of raves and what not.

The Matrix Online

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played in the Matrix online public Beta when it was first in the release stages. I really liked the game and how it was set up. I still enjoy playing the game, it definatly takes work to level. I would recommend this game to anyone who followed the Matrix Trilogy.

Still here and always getting better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: September 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Some of the unique basics:

You can change your load at anytime (all you need is a hardline/phonebooth found throughout the Megacity). From kung Fu to Network Hacker to Rifle Expert to Utility Coder to Master Knive Thrower and more. You can be it all, just not all at once. Your memory is limited and the art of creating a good loadout is one of the deeper parts of the game.

You can change your stats at anytime (you have to do a mission to get another stat hack object). So even if you think you screwed up putting points into the wrong attribute, you can always fix, modify, tweak and otherwise forever pursue the perfect stat build.

Interlock is the most awesome combat system for emmulating the Wire Fu combat of the movies. It's simply riveting and hasn't lost it's shine yet.

My rating:

I give it a 5 stars for fun because I love it and still have fun jacking in after 18 months.... I give it 4 stars overall because it's still buggy, buggier than it should be, but still four stars because it is so less buggy than when WB first shoved it out the door to release in early 2005.

This game has progressed emensely since launch and through the transition to SOE. New content is being added regularly and bugs continue to be addressed at a steady pace (though much work to do still).

The early days of server crashing mammoth events are pretty much gone which is good and bad. The awesome spectacles are missed but many who likewise complained about the massive lag and inevitable server crashes as well as the long periods of stagnant time between storyline events have much less to complain about these days. Storyline events with main characters (played by the devs) are smaller and far more frequent with several to many occuring each week. Critical missions are spread out instead of all being released at once. The storyline presence is stronger and more visible in this format with events and critical missions working off each other.

The major combat revision (CR2) has greatly improved the combat system while keeping the awesome hand to hand graphics that so effectively captures the feel of the Matrix movies' combat style.

For the diehard Matrix fan this is an awesome game. The environment is spectactularly rich and requires competant hardware to make it shine. There is so much to explore and it's always surprising to me that the peeps who complain about nothing to do have explored so little. If you want to grind to the top level for PvP, it's a grind for sure. No matter what it's a grind. But the story and environment are so rich that forums and player based internet resources are a huge part of this game.

This game requires a good player. One who will figure out how things work and use it to their advantage. The stats, abilities and combat system are rather complex and require much study to be succesful. Players who are curious, figure things out and explore end up being more experienced, skilled and overall have a better understanding of how to be successful against the challenges of the game. There are many experienced players who are helpful both ingame and on the forums and are a big part of what makes the community great.

The game has three servers. One hostile and two non-hostile. If you like PvP the hostile server won't disappoint you. Once you reach level 16 (50 is max) you are hostile and anyone any level of an opposing organization (there are three orgs: Zion, Machine and Merovingian) can attack you any time, anywhere (except for a few circumstances like when you are in your loading area).

Eminently soloable yet it pays to be with a good faction when it comes to keeping up with the storyline and live events. The community is one of the best amongst all MMORPG's and is a huge reason this game has survived long enough to see the fruits of some very dedicated developers'labor.

Combat interaction is the best there is. Martial Arts Wire Fu and Guns make for awesome duels and PvP requires good teamwork and complimentary builds for good success.

The ingame radio feature is still one of the coolest things amongst MMO's. Ingame players DJ MxO dedicated broadcasts which enhance the community environment and provide a great resource for information during live events.

If you like exploring and being challenged as a soloer. If you like combat either PvE or PvP. If you like a hard sci fi edge instead of fantasy immersion. If you like the Matrix story. If you like a great community. If you like awesome graphics.

If all that, then this game is for you so what are you waiting for!

If you buy this game, I urge you to get acquainted with The Matrix Online forums, seek out a good faction and check out some websites like mxoarchive.net and mxoresource.com.

Discovering as much as you can about the storyline and the environment will enrich your involvement in the conitinuing story of The Matrix.

Not worth the 20$ I paid for it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having played many other MMO's over the years, I finally found a copy of the Matrix Online at a store recently, and decided to give it a whirl. I am a fan of the Matrix movies, and of the Animatrix, as well as a big fan of the Cyberpunk genera in general. In theory the Matrix Online should have been a great product, as it has so many elements to draw from to make a good game.

However I quickly found myself to be very dissatisfied with my purchase. The introduction to the game was very well done, in which you learned how to control your character and interact with the environment. However the tutorial did not adequately explain how to utilize the UI properly.

Once I actually entered into the world, there was no clear goal, path or set of activities to begin to start getting "into" the game. Travel to the various points was akwardly done, and travel times between even nearby locations is way too high. The UI interface is difficult at best to deal with, and there is no real obviously visible indication when another character tries to communicate with you (tells/whispers/etc.).

All in all I do not rate this game very highly, and would not recommend it to anyone.

Matrix Unbalanced

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The setup of this game is promising: as a "redpill" newly awakened in the world that comes to The Matrix after the third movie, you are presented with a great deal of possibility. Options for character creation are varied enough that you seldom run across look-alikes, and the scenario that starts your trip into the game plays out just like the movies, complete with short "virtual training" sequences.

Unfortunately, from there the game begins to slide. A badly-released buggy game by Monolith and Sega, Warner Brothers quickly dumped the title and handed it to Sony Online (EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies). Patches are still a regular affair and seldom fix bugs. The transition ate my advance payment to WB for months of service (Sony says, "it should be there" but nonetheless would not let me continue playing until I'd provided them my credit card information, and simply began billing me at once). The patches often reset my firewall rules because they recompile the launcher.

Perhaps the largest problem is that the game is badly balanced: leveling up is best done taking "missions", most of which blur together after the first hour or two. You quickly stop reading the dialogue in your rush to get it over with. Missions are heavily stacked against you: unless you get someone higher-level to do all the work while you sit in the lobby, you will die. And take a skill penalty when you are revived. And take an XP penalty when you complete the mission. If you take too long, the mission times out. If the mission is buggy, you'll get most of the way through it before you have to abort. Even worse, at a certain path in the game, your character only gets missions in dangerous parts of town, where just getting from point A to point B is a lethal exercise.

This forces you to band together with other players, which can be the best and worst of gameplay. The saving grace to this game is that there are a lot of good people out there who will help you, bring you along, and give you the tools to get there. Even so, one of the biggest balance elements that needs to be addressed is that when you mission with higher-level characters, the mission scales to the highest level. In other words, you can't be a sidekick to the one person at the top and help them a la City of Heroes: chances are you won't get a single shot in, you just die. And the highest member then does all the work while waiting for you to make your way back to the building to rejoin the team.

It's not all negative, though, or I wouldn't be as generous with my rating. The textures and sounds in the game are really well done, the look is gorgeous, and the random "events" that take place are often interesting, and go on for a few days or a week. The music is a rework of the original movie score, with occasional hip flourishes of techno or heavy-guitar runs. The game has a high price of admission, but at least it pays off: 256MB of videocard and 2GB of RAM will actually improve the quality of the game. And because the world is partially instanced on your machine, lag can sometimes have a way of working itself out. Just the same, beware of those system requirements: I had a machine that met the minimum, but after one patch, the game booted me and refused to continue, saying my hardware was "unsupported".

With some some adjustment to lower the difficulty for the first 25 levels or so, Sony could have itself a decent MMORPG. It's also the only game I've played where style and fashion hold an important role--oddly enough, both male and female players place an emphasis on how you look and what you've got on. Sony, give us your kid gloves a bit longer through the journey, and this'll be a good game.

Meh...very simple game other games are better..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Meh. Thats what I thought of this game after playing it for about a week.

If you like in-depth mmorpgs, lots of crafting/tradeskills and things of that nature, this game isn't for you. Basically its a LOT like City of Heroes. You fight, and fight and fight and fight...and thats about it. Oh wait, you also can participate in critical missions sponsored by the server when you get to a high level, but you'll be doing nothing but street fighting and missions like you do in city of heroes.

The combat system is good, not AWESOME, but cool. I prefer wow's combat system with hotkeys for your spells/abilities, but whatever. This is a different combat system and much cooler than the old pick a spell and watch it happen style that EQ and a lot of others have. Basically its a super-advanced version of rock/paper/scissors, but not as dull as rock paper scissors :).

The absolute best thing about this game is the fighting animations. They simply rock. When you get off a martial arts special move and smack the mob around like a rag doll, you get all giddy inside :). Unfortunately, thats all you do in this game - fight.

The lag...oh god. Other than the mind-numbingly boring kill the same guys over and over, you'll pick an ability to use, wait like 5 minutes mashing the key while your character does nothing, and then when the lag bomb goes away, you're dead. I mean this happens in just about every online game at one point or another (even world of warcraft), but not as often as this game does. I have a pretty high-end machine and cable internet and it still lags.

Personally, I would not suggest this for anyone. There are MUCH better games out there. I just feel bad for die-hard fans of the matrix that went out and got this and realized they wasted their money.

If you want a really good online game, I suggest World of Warcraft. I wrote a pretty decent review about it. Another really fun yet simple one (if all you want to do is fight and play every once in a while) - is City of Heroes. I mean City of Heroes is a lot like this game, just fighting and fighting, but I keep finding myself going back for the cool super powers over and over :) I played FFXI too long, and it just took too long to get stuff done - so I don't suggest getting that.

Bottom-line, don't get this game, there are so many other good games out there and this one just doesn't cut the mustard. Main reason being the lag and the bugs, second reason being the mind-numbingly boring system of kill, get xp, kill again, repeat till max level.

If you're a Matrix fan, this might be for you. Otherwise....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: July 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're a fan of the Matrix, you'll appreciate that this game is about as close as we can come to bringing the movie to life. Hundreds or thousands of people, all connected to the same virtual environment - in essence, "jacked in" to the Matrix.

Without going into enormous detail, let me just say that the world of the Matrix is huge and there are many, many different things to do and explore. The system of movement and (especially) combat is difficult at first, but after a period of adjustment, it becomes very easy to operate.

The best part is that you can participate in the continuation of the Matrix story. If you didn't find enough resolution at the end of the third movie, this is your chance to find out what happens next.

Now for the bad news. The MegaCity in the Matrix is rampant with street gangs. At first, ALL of them are tougher than you. This tends to restrict the areas you have access to. As you progress in the game, you earn experience points which will eventually raise your character to a higher level (you start at level 1 and max out at level 50). The higher your level, the tougher your character. This isn't really the bad news.

The bad news is the incredible amount of time it takes to raise your levels. They go quickly at first, but soon it takes several hours of committed gameplay to raise yourself even one level. That in itself wouldn't be such a problem, but you can't really participate in the major live events unless you attain a very high level.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

The game will be a rewarding experience to fans of the Matrix who won't mind the level of commitment required to progress in the game.

Those who don't care about the story of the Matrix are likely to become frustrated early on.

However, if you're curious about the game, it's only $30 and that comes with a free month of gameplay. A month is plenty of time to find out whether or not you're willing to pay $15 per month to continue.

Be ready to cancel your subscription

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 22 / 27
Date: May 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At $29.99 the game is a good deal for a couple weeks of fun. In a top-of-the-line computer, the Matrix really does comes to life. You need lot of cars on the street (they actually obey traffic lights), people walking around oblivious to the illusion around them. A martial art fighting is nicely choreographed and very believable. The production value of Matrix Online has got to be one of the highest in gaming history.

The game is all dressed up but has nowhere to go, unfortunately. All the wonderful shops, restuarants, and clubs are just there without a purpose. You can't do anything in them other than to sit. The designers had failed miserably in making use of the environment and storyline. Missions, beyond the initial few, are boring and purposeless. The gameplay starts to sag as you level up, because of game imbalance--combat becomes you overpowering the enemy or he overpowering you. And the constant running from point A to point B feels more like a chore when the surrounding environment no longer impresses you.

The Matrix Online is also very buggy. It has actually become buggier three months since launch. The last "live event" was nothing but trouble. The game was unstable. The servers were unstable. Missions were bugged. As though to crown it all, the cut scene depicting the death of Morpheus suffered from major clipping bugs.

If you a big Matrix fan then you're enjoy this game despite its flaw--for a short while anyway. Just don't expect to be playing long term. After the first month you will likely want to cancel.

Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 45
Date: May 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Watch out. I bought this at (...), and when I attempted to install it, it proclaimed in a somewhat demeaning fashion, "WRONG DISK INSERTED." Bullsh*t, I said, it was disk 2. I called the Customer Service place and asked to speak to the highest ranking guy there. He said, "Oh. Ummm... yeah. We've heard of this happening. That's a defective disk. You should return it." I do so, and get another defective one. I call again. "Hmm. The store probably got a bad lot of them. You can send it to *whatever address it was* and they should fix it." Well, It's now been a month or two with no response let alone a replacement. I double-checked that I DID send it to the right address, and I did. Just be careful when you buy this. And if you're thinking of being an employee at SEGA/Monolith or whoever, be sure youre an ***hole, and that you dont mind sending ou screwed up CDs knowingly, then laughing at the poor SOB who wasted 50 dollars... I feel sad now...

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