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Do not try to bend the Spoon...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was really funny... but short... There are some stages that you actually enjoy because they're pretty much the same as the movie! (I.e. Burly Brawl)
The voice acting is good, there some good combos when Neo is fighting, but the end is completely different if you want to compare it with the movie (no worries I'm not going to tell you any spoiler).
If you're a Matrix fan, don't let this red pill go away...

The game is just ok....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

At first when I started playing this game I was like, this game is awesome...But as the game progressed it became worse and worse...The movie scenes that are cut into the game are a mess...Very disorganized, sometimes not making any sense...The martial arts are the best thing about this game...You can pull off some crazy moves...Thats the best thing about this entire game...Some of the levels are just ignorant...Its almost like the Wachoski brothers didn't really care when they threw this game together...Which pisses me off because they should of made this game top notch for there fans alone..Even if they were bored with there own creation...And this new so called ending...Turned a alright game into a joke...The games worth renting and playing for the martial arts, but as for buying I don't think the replay value is that high....

good game overall

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

first of all, im not 13 just too lazy to make an account. for a while this game was really fun. the hand to hand combat is amazing, but the gun fighting was horrible. i hardly ever used guns. it got kinda weird in the part with the ants. scratch that, it was really really weird. i had my hopes up for the last level and they were violently shot down once i started playing. that studpid humongus king kong smith is annoying and that level just isnt fun. i did laugh out loud when the blue and pink wachowski bros. popped up thought. the graphics werent very good at all. they could have been much better. all i was thinking after the last level was, damn, this game had so much potnetial, but they just couldnt make it as good as it should have been.

Morpheus was wrong

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Shiny Games dropped the ball with Enter the Matrix back in 2003. They rushed their product to meet the release date of Matrix Reloaded, and the flaws were evident in a game riddled with bugs and an awful design. Somehow the game still sold millions of copies and drove Shiny to create another Matrix video game. Sadly, Matrix: Path of Neo isn't much better than Enter the Matrix. It isn't as loaded with bugs and glitches, but it's a game that could have been smoothened out with another few months of development.

In Path of Neo, you put your arms through the leather sleeves of Neo's trench coat and take on all of his abilities in the process. The story revolves around him, and throughout the game, it's your goal to learn new abilities and the ways of the Matrix while also doing missions from the movies. In between levels there are Matrix movie clips that help give the levels some sort of meaning, but the clips seem to have been randomized. Any Matrix fan will feel the urge to laugh at such out-of-place movie samples. The cut-scenes themselves are actually better, and are voiced well by sound-alikes of the movie's original cast. That's probably the only positive thing about the story, which I never cared about from the beginning.

The fighting in Path of Neo is difficult to appreciate, despite having a lot of potential. Neo has a lot of moves, and being able to use them all is exciting enough to make every enemy encounter a fresh one. The environments break apart, making some of the fights as epic as they were in the films. The slow-motion "Focus" mode that was made famous by the Matrix films is also a nice perk to the hand-to-hand combat. The only problem is that new moves are constantly being discovered, so for a long time, each battle will be fought with similar moves and combos that become quickly repetitive. The controls don't help much, as they simply dirty up the experience even more. At times, I'd hit more than one button at a time and Neo would just stand around being mauled from all sides by enemies. When the controls are functioning correctly, there is a little too much button-mashing for my taste. There is a single punch button, a grapple button, and a dodge button. I can promise you that you'll wear them out through a lot of time with Path of Neo.

Now, moving away from hand-to-hand combat and into weapon combat, any sort of excitement goes away. Fighting becomes a disgustingly choppy experience. With melee weapons like staves and swords, Neo swings his weapon as roughly as a bumpy gravel road and hitting enemies is difficult when he turns as slowly as he does. Guns themselves just aren't fun to use and feel very weak. The auto-aim system is frustrating and broken. Oftentimes after an enemy goes down, the lock-on cursor will stay on the dead body, making Neo run around staring at a corpse. Of course, while this is going on, the camera is spinning out of control and enemies are left shooting at you. The result is nothing but confusion, cheap deaths, and frustration.

The presentation of Path of Neo is a mixed bag. The graphics are really inconsistent. Sometimes the character models and environments look fantastic. The environments are destructible and the Focus effects always look like a treat. Other times, though, the textures are ugly and broken, graphics blur together, and the animation chugs behind a frame rate that is never consistent in the first place. The music is the typical Matrix fare, and the sound effects don't sound very unique or explosive. Again, the voice acting is probably the best part of the presentation. I must say that the pause screen is really cool, as it turns everything on-screen into the neon-green Matrix coding.

I think Matrix: Path of Neo wasted a lot of potential. It was cool to punch Morpheus through the walls of a dojo in Neo's training. But struggling with the awful controls and trudging through the repetitive, boring levels brings down the experience to a level low enough that I can't recommend buying the game. After every session I had with the game, I felt myself wanting to play the game less and less. I actually think Path of Neo is better than Enter the Matrix, simply because there is potential entertainment to be found here, but I'd recommend a weekend rental at most. Morpheus was wrong, because Neo's not The One.

Great Action....Terrible Everything Else.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge Matrix fan. Many people will say that the movies went downhill after the original. I think they just got better. I love everything about the Matrix story. That's what I hate about this game. It totally takes the Matrix story and hacks it up until is is barely recognizable and hardly worthy of baring the Matrix name.

The game supposedly takes the player on the journey of Neo throughout the movies. However, only about 10% of the game is actual stuff that happened in the movies. The rest is a ridiculous gaming experience that hopefully will put an end to the Matrix as we know it (something that should've been done back in 2003). The 90% of non-movie content is supposedly what Neo did while off camera. However, to believe that is completely ludicrous. In fact, some things could not have happened and others re-write what happened in the movies. The absolute worst part of the game is the ending. In Matrix Revolutions, Neo defeats Agent Smith unexpectedly to bring peace in the real world. In Path of Neo, the Wachowski brothers (or rather two pixelated versions of the Wachowski's) appear on the screen to explain that "the whole Jesus thing" is totally lame in video game world, and in the process completely killing any tensity in the game and making the final boss battle (which is too easy and entirely unnecessary) completely tedious and unwanted.

That being said, the fighting in the game is excellent, and something that should've been implemented in the previous console game, Enter the Matrix. Throughout the game you increase your fighting techniques and use them as you fight increasingly difficult enemies. This really isn't enough to save the game, however, even though the ability to see in code vision is amazing. Anyone who spends $50 on this one is going to be incredibly disappointed. I don't recommend it.

Someone screwed this up

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With this game it loads in the middle of cut scenes, the graphics are horrible and the targeting systems a lauagh. The only thing that holds this game up is the bullet doging and matrix moves.

Hahahahahahahah

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'll try to explain everything that was wrong with this game. First off, when you are watching in game cinematic's there will be horribly long and akward pauses. At first I wasn't sure if I was supposed to press a button or what, but I soon realized that it was just bad editing. Second, when you are in hand-to-hand combat(meele) mode, and want to switch to running to some door somewhere in the level, Neo will walk with his gaurd up at about half the speed. Third, I could swear that all it ever gave me was the "Y+B"...."B"..."\/ Y" Combo. Fourth, I cannot even begin to critique the camera angles in this game, geesh...
Well, I guess if you enjoy fighting giant ants with a torch and hitting the "Y" button about ten-thousand times, this is the game for you.
PS: I give the W-Brothers a big "WTF?" for that last level. Ten whole minutes of ACTION PACKED, dodge, hit.... And you can't even pick where you want to hit the Smith'o bot, it's all just one boring movie... Yawn...

Finally! The ONE we've been waiting to play!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Hey, what can i say? THIS game is much more like what the first game should've been.
This game is not linear as other reviewer(s) have suggested.
Yes, it follows a VERY familliar story-line for fans of the series. But, this program allows you to act out some of the BEST battles that NEO had to offer within the trilogy.
The way they meshed the movie bits with a new perspective was very nice. 600 DIFFERENT ATTACKS! I think that's incredible.
Some are so creative you'll find yourself attached to them more than others. But, there are so darn many you may never use all of them! New characters written in by the Wachowski's , come new environments, and the original voice actors. Better graphics than the first, better action. Easier to control characters.
The only complaint i have is that your friends AI is not all too smart. Once in a while they'll walk right in front of you while you're shooting and bite the big one. Or, stand too close when you detonate a bomb and (again) bite the big one.
Other than that, this was as great as i expected it to be.
I'm not even a die hard fan of the movie franchise.
I am, however, a fan of this game. A fun program whether you're a hardcore fan or not. But, it does help to know at least a little about the movie first.

GIVE ME A BREAK

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 19
Date: November 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

how can anyone say that this game is the game of the year??? for sure they havent play resident evil 4.
this game is very very bad, the camera is imposible the graphics could be much much better and the controls are just horrible DONT BUT THIS GAME rent it first if you want to play the game of the year buy resident evil 4.
RENT IT FIRST.

Good Game For Fans, Has A Few Flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 21
Date: November 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the game that should have been instead of Enter the Matrix. It is so much fun playing as Neo on a Matrix game. I haven't finished yet; but for what I have played, I have been almost 100% satisfied with the game but like all games, this has a few flaws.

One of the good parts about the game is that the controls are excellent. Neo pulls off some awesomely fantastic moves. The graphics are points are great, but at other points not so great. I agree that they could have been better. The fun factor is great, it is fun. The game is long, I've been playing for a few hours and I'm still on the first movie. The game also follows the movie almost exactly; some parts can be changed if you choose to do things different that what was seen on the movie.

There are some down sides to this game. The camera angles sometimes moves to places where you can't see some of the things that are going on screen. When you die or skip the story, some of the noise is occasionally lost during some battles. The only other big problem I have seen with the game is what Jeffrey S. Stanley "Viper_29 said that when the guns are used and I lock on to opponents, when they die the lock automatically aims at the floor instead of the next bad guy and it can be at times frustrating.

Overall great game, fans of the Matrix will love it, but it does have flaws. I do recommend this game

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