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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

Whoa...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the game "Enter the Matrix" had wet dreams about. Fluid control, a deceptively deep combat system, and more jaw dropping fight scenes than you can shake a 9mm at. The gun combat could be a little more finely tuned, but it works. Though who would want to use a gun when you can run across a wall, jump off and spear someone to the floor, pick them up by their legs, swing them around in circles, and launch them at a group of their homies? Because you can do that.

Better than Enter The Matrix

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I have seen quite a few reviews on this game and people either love it or hate it. There is no middle ground. I have to say that while I haven't finished the game, I can report on what I have seen so far.

In regards to the graphics, I think this game pulls it off fairly well. I haven't noticed much of any lagging in the frame rate department. Yes, the graphics could have been better, but as they are I have no significant complaints. They are better than Enter the Matrix (ETM). They are definitely of a newer generation quality on the Xbox. While the graphics of the characters look good, there is a lot of background that also factors in. When you fight someone and knock them into a wall or other structure, that structure will break and reflect the hit.

The fighting system is fairly good. They have made it fairly simple and I never considered it a button mashing style. You basically have a few buttons that you use in addition to using the left joystick. You will accumulate moves as you progress through the game and also increase your "focus" which allows you to do all the famous moves from the Matrix universe such as dodging bullets and such. The training missions were a little long but they do help you to get a grip on the combat system. I have had several moments where I fought multiple opponents and had two attack me at once. I was able to grab them both as they swung at me and grabbed one hand and then the hand of the other and was able to defeat them while holding them together at the same time. It was one of the coolest moves I have ever seen in a game and it was silky smooth while it happened. You can move the camera angle during the fights and when you perform a special move the time will slow down and you can swing the camera to view it at any angle. Nice touch.

The shooting portion of the game is the one letdown here. You have to click the right joystick to draw the weapons and then you have to use the right joystick to switch from target to target by moving it left or right. The bad thing here is that you will continue to shoot a person even after they are dead. This makes you waste too much ammo. I had to switch back and forth from having my weapons drawn to switch to another target. Another annoying thing was that the camera lock would lock in a position even after the body of the person was gone. Again I had to click the right joystick and reclick it again to move on. The jump moves are nice when you engage the focus and you can pick people off from in the air.

There was a new ending rewritten for this game that is different from the movie. I haven't seen it yet but if I had I wouldn't post it to spoil it for any others playing the game. All in all it is a entertaining game that is worlds better than ETM. One thing when I popped it in the Xbox last night while playing it I definitely wanted to pop in my Matrix DVD to watch it again. This is definitely a renter for everyone. If you are a Matrix fan, you will most likely enjoy this game quite a bit. I could see a bit of influence from the Mortal Kombat games in the training sequence. When you play it you will probably see it as well. My local EB was able to hold a copy for me but they completely sold out of all the copies they had. They told me they were following the sales performance of this game but they suspected that it would be a sleeper hit. If sales of ETM are any signal, then this game will probably sell well into the millions. Give it a try. Chances are you will enjoy it enough to say "that wasn't a bad game at all". Enjoy.

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.

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.

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.

Matrix: Path of Meh

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: November 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game wants to combine three really fun gaming aspects: the gun play of Max Payne (great game), the kung fu of Ninja Gaiden (another great game), and the bullet time of Max Payne and Enter the Matrix. It has all three elements, and does them all poorly.

First, the combat is sloppy. Button mashing is the name of the game and only seldomly are you rewarded for actually playing the game well. The gun battles are among the most frustrating experiences I've ever had playing a game. A horrible targeting system matched with more sloppy controls makes trying to shoot anyone intentionally a joke. Last, bullet time is given in such small doses, you can't get a hold on how to use it judiciously.

On top of all the sloppy controls and poor gameplay, the graphics look like a bad PS2 game. This is the Xbox, folks. Games should look better than this.

I really wanted to enjoy this game. I love Max Payne, Ninja Gaiden, and the Matrix universe, but this is yet another failed attempt by Shiny to let us have a good time in the Matrix. Maybe next time...

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: November 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Matrix: Path of Neo recieved 5 stars because it is the best game out this year (so far anyway) and a must have for any Matrix fan. Gameplay is awesome
BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!!!

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...

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.

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