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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice idea, but........., 28 May 2003
Enter the Matrix was meant to take movie tie-ins to a new level. The story runs parallel to that of the awesome film The Matrix Reloaded and it does fill in a few gaps where some may be baffled. You play the part of either Niobe or Ghost, and the game varies ever so slightly depending upon which one you choose. This raises my first complaint. The obvious main character would have been Neo. True, he has godlike status now, but who would really have passed up the opportunity to fly, fight 100 Agent Smiths at once and mix in heavy melee weaponry with a bit of Tae Kwon Do? There's no justice - you se it in the movie, but you can't do it in the game!I must confess, though, that initially the feeling is good. The first time you run up a wall using 'focus' and somersault off while firing an MP5 is greatly satisfying. After the 100th time however.....The hacking aspect is a welcome addition, allowing for the unlocking of cheats, FMVs and even a slightly mediocre multiplayer. The driving sections are a little disappointing it must be said except for the first few times one pilots the Logos. This may sound slightly unfair, but when one considers how long we had to wait for a Matrix game it seems frustrating that Shiny wheeled out a game with below par visuals and AI. The objective driven nature is slightly uninspiring, almost without urgency. If, however, one can forget about visuals, and excuse the AI, then the game can be a fairly enjoyable slice of escapism. The movies rewarded at the end are worth viewing, but i would advise a cheat book handy if you get bored of the repitition. a good game to sample therefore, but perhaps not the best one to buy.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
I would do 3 1/2 stars..., 1 Jun 2003
By A Customer
Enter the Matrix is a good game, but the graphics are very repetetive, you can tell it was rushed because of needing to be released with the film. The characters-especially Niobe look great, there is alot of detail on them and good animations (you get a good chance to see this with the slow motion thing). It can be quite glitchy sometimes, but has great fighting system. There are loads of moves and attacks to be done, and this almost makes you forget the repetetiveness of the game. It does have some things to try to stop this- the driving sections are quite good, but it doesn't handle very well, and it also has a hacking thing you can do, which I haven't tried much yet, but it can be used to find cheats etc. this should provide more lifespan though. If you're a big fan of the film, then this is a good addition (especially as you can see more story), but as far as games go, its nothing special. It's not bad, but average with some nice features.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I know kung fu?, 22 May 2003
Enter the Matrix is a very polished game throughout, which was always to be expected given the involvement of the notoriously detail-conscious Wachowski Brothers. This wasn't just going to be yet another awful game-of-the-movie, this was going to be a PART of the movies.
In fact, having seen Reloaded, Niobe and Ghost have very little screen time in the film itself, but you can pick out the moments when they wandered of to do some of the levels in the game. The cut scenes in the game (although i do wonder if they were just deleted scenes from the film itself) help to fill in Niobe's motives during the movie, which aren't really that well explained.
As for the gameplay, it is at times astonishing, and at other times frustrating. I can easily divide the two categories:Astonishing:
Shooting guns and kickin' ass! The kung fu animations and the way all the various flips and kicks and punches blend smoothly into one another took my breath away. They must have spent months on the motion capture, which I believe was choreographed by the kung fu master who worked on the films. It's so good that sometimes I was loathe to even think about using any guns, which only really come into their own when you hold down the Focus button and unleash your inner bullet time. You'll believe a man can fly ... backwards, while firing an M-16 with pinpoint accuracy! It's the Focus (bullet time) that makes the game what it is, and while using it you can do all the tricks you've seen in the films (running up walls, cartwheel jumps while strafing a room with bullets, that sort of thing). Frustrating:
Anything that involves driving, or flying the hovercraft. Dull as dishwater, and with the hovercraft in particular, just plain dodgy. These modes seemed tacked on, as if the developers needed an excuse to put in some clips of the mind-blowing car chase from the film. Playing as Niobe lets you drive, dodging past slow moving cars and through spaces that you could easily pilot a taxiing 747. Being chased by Agents? I wouldn’t worry about it; because they’re not likely actually hit you with any of their bullets. As Ghost you hang out of the window and shoot at the Agents, or shoot at the Twins, or shoot at policemen, or shoot at traffic, or shoot yourself if you can’t take the monotony anymore.
The hovercraft chases let’s the whole game down. It’s the very last thing, and although it necessary to lead the characters to the game’s great final cut scene, it’s just not exciting at all. Being chased by a swarm of sentinels should be exciting, shouldn’t it? Not this time. Piloting the hovercraft as Niobe has you steering through dull, grey tunnels, mostly crashing into the walls because the thing handles like a pig. As Ghost you’re on the rear guns, firing away at the various sentinels that approach. What I found interesting was how I could be shooting toward the top left of the screen and have sentinels on the bottom right exploding. Hmm. Thankfully though, these driving sections only make up about 20% of the game, so I’ll take off 20% of the stars, and give it a four. Don’t be put of by the bad things – every game has them – and instead focus on the fact that the rest of the time you’ll be diving around levels in slow motion firing off twin handguns at anything that looks at you funny, or running up walls to get a better angle for roundhouse kicking someone in the head. You can’t beat that for entertainment.
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