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It's a rental

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pros:
- Bullet time.
- Music gets you in the rhythm of the game.
- Blowing up cars in the car chase sequence is a fun distraction.

Cons:
- Repetitive.
- Cannot strafe! How do you dodge bullets in bullet time if you can't strafe?!
- Graphics on XBOX is very poor- looks like they took the lowest common denominator of graphics and just cloned it for each platform rather than chosen higher resolution textures or applied antialiasing.
- Bullet time effect does not show up in cut scenes.
- Camera gets in the way of the fight scenes.

Recommend playing Bloodrayne instead and enable bullet time all the time. You get much more satisfaction of seeing bad guys getting diced up into tiny little bits in slow motion.

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Good companion to the movie

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off let me say that the game control is a bit hard to learn at first but once you get used to it, it's not half bad. The story line matches perfectly with "Reloaded". It's almost like watching the movie from a different angle. With good plot points and all the orginal actors in the game, I recommend it.

Next to Halo, Enter the Matrix ranks in the top for the Box

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

[...] I was amazed by the graphics and gameplay. [...] Yeah, the controls are a little odd, you would think that the fire button would be the R trigger, X button, or A button instead of the Balck Button. But after a day of getting used to it you'll have a photographic memory of the controls. [...] The focus really helps you out. Focus makes you jump farther, hit harder, and break the laws of gravity. The only con about the game is that its only for one player. But there is a code for multiplayer fighting. It's like a mortal combat-like fighting. One-on-one. But you cant use focus. Overall this game is worth the price eventhough [$$$]. If you beat it on Easy. try normal, or if your crazy try hard. ( If your wondering about the Agents in the movie, their in the game. Agent Smith and the Agents from the first Matrix. The only way you can kill the Agents is by the grenades(2-4) or the gas grenade launcher(1 round) or the explosive grenade launcher(2-3.) [...]

Quite disapointed after all the fuzz

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Definitly should have waited a while before jumping from the excellent SplinterCell to this medium grade plain action game.
From smooth controls and tactics to basic running around punching and kicking.

Yes you guested it, I'm very disapointed. Ok, I must admit, I did not spend a lot of time getting used to the controls, but geez what's up with this shooting using the little black button!?!? Whatever the control mode, none of them are near standard or obvious. Don't we all hate that?

Graphics are very basic in the sense that obviously no one lives in that "world"... very unrealistic, plain and effort less. Forget the details, there are none!

Oh, did I mention you have to choose between looking around or moving. you can't do both at the same time!!! Don't even dream of turning your head :(

Anyway, I'll play a little more, give it an other hour or two to see if I can handle it.

Definitly NOT a "must have"...

A Very Fun Matrix Experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game because it adds a whole new element to the movie. For example, the first part of the game has Niobe/Ghost going into the post office to pick up a package that the Osiris dropped, which contains the news that there is a sentinel army heading for Zion. Its great to pick up the package and feeling like you are actually in the movie, making a difference. The rest of the game follows the movie, but shows you much more than the movie could.

You can do just about every single move from both movies. You can do cartwheels while shooting. You can jump off walls and kick guys in the head. You can steal a cop's shotgun and shoot him with it. You can run on walls and do backflips off them. You can jump from building to building while running from agents. There are tons of moves and sometimes you'll watch and say, "wow that looked awesome."

The Hacking part of the game is impressive but complicated. You can unlock a 2 player mode with it. The graphics and the controls are not Halo worthy, but then what is? I would suggest switching to Controller setting B for the Xbox version- the right trigger as Fire makes much more sense to me. Also, getting a Controller S makes a huge difference in gameplay.

Rent don't buy.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has many failings. The graphics, even in the xbox version, are supremely sub-par. The game is marred with bland textures and crappy collision detection. The driving missions are atrocious. And the levels are often poorly designed. However, it is a great companion to the movie. The exclusive footage and the pure joy of slow-mo arse-whooping makes it worth the play through. I reccomend the rent because it took me a day to finish the game. The controls, as others have pointed out, are a bit unintuitive and very obviously created around the s-controller (which I don't use). The only reason I am able to give this game 3 stars instead of 2 or 1 is the tie-in to Reloaded. Having the game directed by the Wachowski's and the exclusive footage you get by playing through makes it worth the rent.

Interesting but doesn't push the envelope

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Actually, I tried to cancel getting the game once I saw the bloat that the Brothers W coughed up in Matrix Reloaded (see my 2 star review of their empty FX flic - not a candle to the original), however, it had shipped so I decided to accept it and see it there was indeed redemption in this world.

First, the control interface is TERRIBLE. Whoever the game programmers were that came up with this interface should be put up against the wall and forced to learn how to design a real control interface set. Buttons (as mentioned in other reviews) frequently have reverse meanings from several other games. The trigger button is not in fact one of the triggers - come on people, what were you thinking on that one??? In addition, on a V1 XBOX control pad it is almost impossible to aim with any precision - the LF joystick is just toooooo sensitive in the default setting.

All that takes a lot of fun out of things.

On the plus side, at least there is some story line that is not bad for a video game (actually better constructed than Matrix Reloaded's and without the ADD inducing repetition in the movie). "Focus" (aka "bullet time") is wonderfully done. The addition of a "hacker" interface is a cool feature and in keeping with the genre of the movie.

However, with those exceptions, I'd be hard put to say this breaks any new ground as a game. In addition, the images/frames are all film noir "dark" - actually, sometimes over dark to the point where it is often difficult to see anything accurately. Maybe that's the directorial input?

"Halo" this is not!

Good first try for the Bros. W though. Doesn't quite redeem their reputations (in my mind) as filmmakers - perhaps the third film will and hopefully there'll be a new game. If they are looking for suggestions: MAKE THIS AN XBOX LIVE GAME PLEASE!

Then we can really follow the rabbit into the matrix...

Sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazingly fun game.I was blown away by the fights and I had a great time doing the missions.This game is also koo because of the fact that it coincides with the Matrix.If you are a big fan of the movie and don't already have this game,get it!

Dodge this.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Now this game is based on the 2nd matrix. I haven't yet seen the movie to understand the concept. But I have seen the 1st one. That was too cool for 1999,anywaysthe game is an awsome display of martial arts,the shooting is ok,but its the kung-fu that makes it a joy to play. The levels are easy,recover this, kill that,dodge this,run from that. The characters are pretty cool,my freind thinks Niobe is hot, I told him its video game. But thats not true ,well it is a video game but its not real. I like using the invisible cheat[I like to cheat alot] because they can't see you and their helpless! Anyways, buy the game,keep it real, and read my other xbox reviews.

A definite for any Matrix fan, but it lacks something

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Enter the Matrix video game, although under some categories does not compare to its other bullet-time predecessors (bullet-time is the act of slowing the speed of the gameplay to allow for a true Matrix-esque experience) but is still a fine addition to any gamer's collection. If you are a strong, true fan of the Matrix trilogy that would understand the relevence of this game to the series, then it is without question a must-buy. First off, this game has easily the best bullet-time (or "Focus") of any video game on the market to date. The player can at any time slow the speed of the gameplay, allowing for special moves to be performed such as the act of running along the walls, dodging bullets, performing barrel-rolls, etc. The player can pretty much act out any fancy move that they saw performed in one of the movies, from punches and kicks to shooting-dives and midair kicks. Still, with all of these abilities fulfilled, the game lacks a certain flare to it to give it that true Matrix feel.

To let out a few of the bad points, the interiors of the game are a bit too simplistic for my tastes; everything you could see on the screen is very square and unimaginitive besides the characters, and although there is an extent of interactivity with the environments, it could have been pushed to a much better level. It has sparkling marble lobbies and office complexes, but what it needs to give it that big city, gritty feel are some torn up environments in desperate need of repair, like those seen in Max Payne. The buildings are solid and well designed; but the question is, does that truly add on to what the Matrix is? Though I do talk down the indoor environments, I was one to find the outdoor on-foot areas quite appealing; (in one level, you are running away from an endless swarm of Smiths in Tokyo; it is very well rendered with stylish fog and a lovely eye for detail) other than that, there is nothing to be impressed by as far as the interiors go.

A very, very disappointing part of the game is all of the driving levels. Though they give you plenty of freedom to roam as you please, would you really want to drive around in a city with Midnight Club 1 - quality rendering, absurd physics, ridiculous A.I. and a pathetic draw distance? It's these levels that cause me to shake my head at the developers. The camera is completely locked on to the vehicle (assuming you play as Niobe; if you play as Ghost, you're in the gunner's seat with an annoyingly random aimer that makes things extremely difficult to shoot) making it feel so very thrown together and adding no life to the cityscape, there are NO civilians, other cars won't even so as stop for you and the police can be dealed with effortlessly, even on the hardest difficulty. The developers most definately could have pushed themselves further as far as the driving levels go.

The music, although stylish and suiting for the atmosphere, could have been selected much better, and gets extremely loopy at times. They should have just stuck with techno tracks for this one, and not enough of the classic Matrix orchestra is used (it's pretty much the same track clipped apart to sound a little different.)

I know what one would think after reading this review; "Why would I want the game?!" Simple; the bullet-time is absolutely incredible and the overall fighting physics are some of the best I have ever seen. The story is well written (which is what one would expect from the Wachowski brothers) and ties along with Final Flight of the Osiris and Matrix Reloaded perfectly, and I guarantee you will have a blast with this one.

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