Enter the Matrix

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Summary: price
Review: you price is too much you chould put the price like10.00 or 16.00so people can buy and have fun and it will work.

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Summary: A must have for all matrix enthusiasts
Review: i must say i was a little doubtful after hearing all the praise this game got from the second disk of the Matrix Reloaded DVD, but after i jacked in and fought an enemy hand to hand for the first time, i was definately hooked. The moves are amazing, with very little practice i was throwing enemies, choking them from behind, and doing sweet kicks with Ghost. I thought this was the best game ever, and then i shot someone in bullet time, the game just got that much better! Other users will have you believe that this game is dificult to run or lags on very good graphics cards but i'm sorry to say its not the game's fault my friends, its yours. You may have a top-of-the-line video card but your pc must be lacking. My graphics are amazing and all i'm running is a 64mb GeForce 2. And they say the environments are blah, well shouldnt a sewer be boring?

I must say I was the most disappointed with the driving part of the game but it is a very small part of the game so i'll let it slide. The hacking option is very exciting, dont let that trace program get ya!! Sparing with Trinity was a lotta fun, too. Overall, all you matrix fans must play this game, or you'll miss out. Good game.

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Summary: Two Words: Simply Incredible!!!
Review: I cannot believe how many people say this is a bad game! This game rocks!!! The graphics exceed, or are at least up to par with, all other third and first person shooters out there. The fight moves one can do in the Focus Mode are simply amazing. Yes, the storylines may seem linear, but the game was written with a close-ended script, as in it was meant to fit in with the Matrix movies. If the storylines were open-ended, then each player of the game would get a different story, which would defeat a part of the game's purpose. Which was to expand the overall Matrix story, and add another dimension to the Matrix experience. If you are having trouble with the game looking good, get a new graphics card. In this area is one of my only two complaints. There is, or there was at the time of release, only a very limited number of graphics cards that Enter the Marix would run on. I had to upgrade my graphics card, at $90.00, in order to play this game. But it was well worth it, for now I can play many games I couldn't before, and all the games I already owned now look a whole lot better. My only other comaplaint is the enourmous complexity, and overall how hard, the hacking portion of the game is (in the hacking portion of the game, you attempt to hack into the Matrix itself). I am going to have to download a guide from online in order to access all the little 'secrets' available through the hacking portion of the game. But other than these two things, this game is incredible. With the drop in price from its original $49.99 opening price to its current, much lower, price, if you have the right graphics card, or don't mind spending a little moo-lah ($) on an updrade, BUY THIS GAME. You won't regret it.

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Summary: "Unfortunately, no one can be told how bad this game is"
Review: You can play as either Niobe (Morpheus' former lover) or the Kirkegaard-quoting Ghost (her gunner aboard the Logos, who (in one of the game's only humorous moments, identifies onanism as his personal philosophy). While the two characters' storylines intersect, there are segments in which each character has different tasks to do. Unfortunately, this isn't consistent; there are large segments in which you have to perform the same tasks, even though it breaks continuity from the other character's storyline (for example, when playing as Ghost, you have to rescue Niobe from the Merovinginan; when playing as Niobe, you have to rescue Ghost). As storylines go, they're both disappointingly short. Whereas it usually takes me about a week or two to finish first-person games with storylines (Deus Ex, Medal of Honor), I got both storylines done in about a day.

The gameplay is frustratingly linear. I guess I was spoiled by Deus Ex, in which you frequently have multiple avenues by which to achieve a goal, and actions taken (or not taken) have consequences later in the game. With Enter the Matrix, you have to follow a set path (doors often stay locked until you've accomplished certain tasks, and nearly every door locks behind you, forcing you to go only in the direction the game designers intended).

Aiming - especially with sniper weapons - is another problem area. With non-sniper weapons, the game aims for you, at what it thinks you should be shooting at. Certain objects are highly explosive; it makes sense to take out several enemies by shooting these objects. Unfortunately, if there's an enemy near the object, the gun will shoot at the enemy even if you're aimed directly at the explosive object. When you use a sniper scope, aiming is erratic; the crosshairs frequently overshoot the mouse movements.

"Focus mode", the game's odd choice of terminology for what's called "bullet time" by the movie effects people, was practically unusable on my machine. Every time I entered it, my screen would alternately flash between the game and a pixelated version of my computer desktop. Since my desktop is much brighter than the game (which is horribly dark), it had the effect of obscuring the action completely. (The fix, which I discovered only after I had solved the game, is to download and install a patch from the Atari Web site, open the configuration file with a text editor, and change a setting to enable the "alternate focus" mode.)

Speaking of video, the configuration options are horribly designed. If you wish to alter brightness, contrast or gamma, you have to do so before the game begins. If you're in the middle of the game and want to change these settings, you have to exit the game completely and re-start it. Since the game only saves when you've reached particular objectives (there's no quick-save, and it doesn't offer the option to save when you exit the game), this means you have to wait until you reach a spawn point to quit, otherwise you lose some of your progress. Also, these changes frequently don't get saved to the configuration file, requiring one to either edit the configuration file by hand, or change the settings every time one runs the game. Other options can be changed within the game, but still require you to quit gameplay and return to the main menu (again, losing anything you've done since the last spawn point).

I do like the fact that health eventually regenerates, once you've gone for a specific amount of time without taking further damage. However, this is also inconsistent; in certain levels, you have a character (or, in one case, a helicopter) which you must defeat in order to progress, and your health doesn't regenerate until you've done so. Since ammunition is extremely limited, and Focus power runs out very quickly, it's almost impossible to win some of these confrontations (especially the helicopter) without enabling one or more of the cheats.

And then there are the driving segments. Control is nearly impossible; as with sniper weapons, the cars (and the Logos) respond poorly to the mouse and keyboard, apparently responding to speed of mouse movement (or duration of keypress) logarithmically. You'd think that perhaps Niobe, the best pilot in the fleet, wouldn't have so much trouble piloting a car, let alone her own ship, but for some reason they decided to make all the vehicles respond to a mere approximation of what the player asks them to do.

With the exception of the Merovingian's mansion, in which you're fighting vampires (and what might be werewolves who are also killed by wooden stakes through the heart), your opponents are limited to security guards, policemen and SWAT teams (with one or two unkillable agents thrown in just in case you get tired of killing cops). When you perform certain lengthy moves (such as choking an opponent from behind), all your other opponents stop shooting at you until the move is done. The opponents' intelligence is shockingly limited as well; if you duck behind a wall, they'll rarely come after you, preferring instead to vibrate in place until you present yourself as a target again.

And finally, the game is rife with bugs. Often, these present themselves in the cutscenes, which may play without sound or with the video going several times normal speed while the audio remains normal (or, in one particular case, without sound and in fast-forward mode). Occasionally, objects required for the completion of a level can't be picked up, and in one particularly annoying level in which you have to pilot the Logos through tight tunnels, I found myself frequently stuck (requiring a restart of the level) or somehow outside the map and unable to get back inside it (also requiring a restart). There are frequent visual errors as well. And this is with the patch applied!

So, on a scale of one to ten, I give this game a blue pill.

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Summary: This game should have never seen the light of day.
Review: This is one of THE worst games ever. The graphics are terrible, the controls are worse, audio can't be any more pathetic. I bought this the day it came out. It was THE biggest waste of 50 bucks ever! Many of the levels are poorly designed, and the proctection missions become impossible at times. The animation is terrible. The FMV's couldn't get any worse. Do not buy this game.

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Summary: For the story
Review: First of all I am not saying that you shouldn't buy this but if you do not like the way it looks don't buy it. It looks really good from what they Say, and the story is good. But the Graphics stink, and the car chasing scene and fighting effects aren't that good. But if you want to hear the story you have to buy it. So I would not recommend that you buy this game unless you really want to hear the story. But thats not all the camera views are not that good either and the characters are really jerky. The AI is not that good either. But it does have some good things also. The sound is good, the music is good, some fights are good, the controls are ok and the movies are good. I hope this review has been helpful.

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Summary: Is it just my mouse?
Review: While it does contain some interesting story elements, and tie-ins to both the movie series, and the Animatrix, this is one game that could use some major improvements.

The game LOOKS good. It really does. It calls up the bullet tracking, the agents' impresive dodging, and (abandoned?) general eye candy factors of the original movie, which is a plus. Things still have a new, and not quite so 'played out' feel to them.

The view, camera action, and controls, however, are horrible. If this game had the viewing, controls, and overall engine technology used in the game "Splinter Cell" it would most likely be a 5 star game. (SC took a few sessions to get used to, but is solid, playable, and very replayable.)

The characters, even when standing still, twitch and spasm like a couple of crack fiends. The camera seems to find other things to be more interested in, especially when in crucial moments when precision tactics must be employed, yet are impossible due to the awful 'auto camera'.

The control overall is jerky, and either under or over-reponsive, no matter how you change the settings, and using the viewfinder for sniping is even worse.

The game, again, looks rather good. It's got a lot of potential, and good content. It's great to watch, listen to, and have a few unarmed combat battles in. It just isn't fun to play overall.

'Hacking'
A built in mini-game / cheat system.
If the game was controllable, this would be a nice add-on for AFTER you complete the game the first time.
(It IS a nice feature, and interesting to delve into. I still think the 'cheat' command shouldn't even be available until the game is completed. That's just sad, and does reflect the average gamer nowadays... 'WH3r3 R T3H CHEETZ?!'. Ugh.

Overall, the game looks nice, has good story backup, and is a solid addendum to the story. Unforunately the playability suffers, badly, and ends up being a filler for the story and a few really cool battles here and there.

DJB

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Summary: Bad, but not as bad as some people say
Review: Enter the Matrix had alot of potential to bethe next big action game. It had a Max Payne (which is a much better game) type Bullet Time thing, called Focus, and had scenes written by the Wachoski Bros. But many flaws make it a bad game
Pros
Scenes written by the Wachowskis
Focus is kind of cool, for a little bit
The Chateu level is pretty fun
Some nice graphics
2 full games
Lots of moves
Good voice acting
Cons
Poor level design, especialy the Power Plant and Sewer levels
Glitchy, glitchy graphics
Driving levels suck
Bad sound
Horible shooting controls
Badly placed camera

Overall
A game with alot of hype doesn't live up to it

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Summary: The storyline is great
Review: It has several valuable high qualities but also a few low points as you will find if you play it , but The storyline is great. and the movie is incomplete if you dont play Enter the Matrix

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Summary: Horrible, horrible experience
Review: I love the movies, and the Reloaded movie has a review of this game. In the review they tell you there is an extra hour of video you can get no other way. So, even though I do not like this type of game I bought it anyway. I hoped I could make my way though the game well enough to get to the video. I could not. I made my way through a bunch of lame action and then got trapped on a plane with an agent. But it didn't start there. The install process was horrible as well. The installer for the game popped up with error after error. I'm very upset by all this. If they want to put out video that can be seen only through a game like this there needs to be a 'I hate games like this, just play the video for me' option.