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Enter the Matrix

Enter the Matrix

List Price: $19.99
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Enter The Matrix PC-CD
Review: The game is fun and the graphic's are good the sound is the best thing about this game, I have never played a game with better sound effects and the music is good too. I only needed one patch for the game, it was for the HD sound engin, it worked well after.The levels are cool, but the driving levels suck, no replay vaule for them. The cheats are cool. The game was only $2o when I bought it it is worth that at least. The Fighting moves are cool.the extra flim footage is ok nothing you could not enjoy the matrix with out.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Great potential, but poorly implemented.
Review: Ouch. Though I'm sure a lot of development went into this game, dissapointment doesn't adequately describe end result. First, the controls are awkward. While fighting hand to hand, there aren't any real moves that the user can decide to use. All moves happen by themselves and appear to follow variables determined by character position. Bottom line -- it plays itself. If you just punch and kick really fast, you can beat any enemy without knowing what you're doing, and the move may last longer than five seconds, creating a clumsy delay. The weapons are similarly poorly implemented. Auto-aim cannot be disabled, unlike most other similar games. Firing in the general direction of an enemy may instantly kill it with no challenge at all, or the bullets may veer off wildly, accomplishing nothing. Any idiot could aim better than the lousy auto-aim. The bullet-time is okay at best, as most moves are difficult to initiate, and are rarely useful in tough situations. To see a truly good example of bullet-time, play Max Payne -- a user-made Kung Fu modification plays better than the Matrix's combat implementation. Finally, the game is SHORT. Really short -- as in, "That's IT?!!" The last level is so incredibly impossible and unamusing that it's just not worth completing. Better luck next time, Shiny Entertainment.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Button-Mashing Slugfest Action!
Review: "Enter the Matrix" is a really fun game. Given the much greater depth the two "Matrix" movies have over the game, however, that means that Enter the Matrix has disappointed a lot of people.

I'm not one of them.

I really love playing this game, but you should probably know a few things about it before you go reaching for the Shopping Cart button:

1)Make sure your system can run it. I don't meet *all* the requirements (the hard-drive speed thing is a little ridiculous to ask of a user), but I come close enough to play the game at full detail and resolution with no crashes. I also don't have a DirectX-9-support-in-the-firmware video card, but having DirectX 9 installed was enough. Make sure your machine can handle the processor requirements, RAM, and video, and you should do just fine. If you *don't* meet those requirements, it probably won't install.

2)Defrag before you install, and patch before you play. Like most games today, this one was rushed out to shelves to time with the movie's release. You'll want to download and apply the latest fix before you try to run it. And installing on a clean unfragmented drive makes a BIG difference.

3)Have fun. I mean it. Don't go wondering if you're going to wrack your brain with puzzles or come up with a clever way to beat the level. The bad guys are pretty much the same, getting the cool-looking kung-fu moves to work exactly the way you want them to every time is difficult, and the way you play is pretty linear, despite the fact that events happen differently if you play Niobe or Ghost. There are some levels where you have to either drive (Niobe) or shoot from a car (Ghost), but the driving interface is not that great. Even so, doing these levels can be fun so long as you remember that you're playing a console game ported to the PC.

I'm not trying to sound cynical: as movie tie-in games go, this is one of the best. It drops you some neat little clues about The Animatrix, and the cinematic scenes dovetail nicely with part of The Matrix Reloaded. The gameplay is fun on a level of Street Fighter and Grand Theft Auto - it just doesn't give you the strategic control of Splinter Cell or the multiple solutions of Deus Ex. If you're a fan of First-Person Shooters (FPS), fighter-style games, and/or The Matrix movies, this should provide you with some enjoyable hours of fun while you wait for the next movie to come out.

Details:
This game was played at 1600X1200X32 on a Dell Inspiron 8100, 2.2GHz Pentium IV w/400MHz FSB, 1GB RAM, 32MB GeForce440 MX video card, running Windows XP Pro SP 1, DirectX 9, and no sound card (software emulated). The hard drive is only 5400 RPM.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Cool stunts
Review: If you have the graphic card to support this game...it's worth playing! Using the "matrix focus" to kick sweep an opponent, jump great distances, or to run on walls was just too fun! I didn't care for the female kissing female cut scene....seeing Will Smith's wife kissing the french lady from BraveHeart was vomiting and senseless. I thought the game could have been longer, so maybe there will be an extension/add-on version soon.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst Game Ever
Review: A huge production budget couldn't save this abomination. For one thing, the game feels cheap and there are very very few variations in gameplay. for all it's vaunted separate campaign paths, it's still linear and moreover... BORING.

Get Deus Ex or Max Payne.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Great if it would ever install
Review: I have tried to install this game several times. The first time it errored out after asking for the 2nd disk, it immediately said that it needed the first disk again. After inserting the first disk it just errored out. On the 4th try, after several reboots, it got 90% through, then had the same error after asking for the play disk. Upon cancelling the installation, it mocks you more by leaving an unclosable error of no disk. If you want this get XBOX or PS2 version, PC version is better as coaster set!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: STINKS WORSE THAN AN ELEPHANTS TOILET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: THE GRAPICS LOOK LIKE A PICURE SHOW ON MY TOP OF THE LINE COMPUTER. THE GAME WAS NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIE AND THE CONTROLS WHERE IMPOSSABLE.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It makes you feel like you're in the movie
Review: I was skeptical when I picked this game up, because I had heard mixed reviews. However, after I started playing it I found I couldn't stop til I had finished it. It plays out like a movie, and includes some intense action levels that make you feel the panic of the movie's characters. Much better than I thought.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the greatest games ever.
Review: This game is amazing, the plotline is done so perfectly its like watching a movie, and the games action is better than anything ele ever plaed! Plus the codes for multi player mode ar egreat too play with freinds@!

an acceivement!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: You got to try hard to find a game worse than this...
Review: Remember all the hype surrounding this game before its release? Remember some fans of the Matrix and video games said that "it will change the gaming forever!!!" And what do we have here...? A piece of junk that is hardly a good game, not to mention breaking any ground.

First, the graphics. Everything is greeny, which is good because that's the way it is in the movie, but the blurry texture and low-poly enviroment, come on! This game would be very impressive in 1997, but not now.

Then the gameplay is extremely linear and offers 0 replay value. Linear is fine, since it could offer some excitement, but wrong again! The gameplay is very, very repetitive, and the combos are very very limited. No matter which character you choose to be, it doesn't make too much difference. The enviroment are boring and plain with no interaction whatsoever.

And the character animation is probably the most stupid of all games. Ghost and Niobe wave their limbs over the top of their head while running, and the speed is unfomfortably faster than Quake 3's deathmatch. The pistols spit out some bullet shells that's even thicker than the gun barrels, like they are sausages flying out of your guns whenever you fire some shots. The bullet time is done much better in Max Payne, and Max Payne offers much better graphics. And remember, Max Payne came long before this game.

And the sniper part of the game is just stupid... when do you ever "snipe" in the Matrix? You might, but that's not fun at all.

The story is just as bad, and really makes no difference to the story you have known from the movies. Unlike some fanboys on-line said, you are not Neo in this game.

I found this game as bad as it could get. But if you're looking fo some mindless beat'em up fun, or you're a Matrix fanboy, or collecting Matrix merchandise, or you want one because your friends around you have no decent taste on games and all bought one already and you don't want to fall behind the train of "mass-marketing", this game is for you.


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