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Summary: Almost made me hate "The Matrix" as a whole
Review: I am sorry. There are certian things you require for when you get PC game. Install options, Install options, Install options. This game, however, gave me none. It takes up absolutley way too much room on my computer. I am assuming much of this is on Cinematics because the quality of the actual game is not superb. There are gimicks all throughout the game that are supposed to make it great and interesting. They failed. The controls are not the best out there. I have a good computer but I couldn't get this game to stop lagging.
After the incredibly long install time the first time I try to load the game. It errors out. Forcing me to uninstall it and try again. Finally after doing that I get it to play. I was thinking to myself "Is this all?" I was thinking this game was going to be incredible since so much emphasis was put on it being directly in tune with the movies. They should really watch out about doing that. This almost made me hate the entire Matrix phenomenon. Maybe I am the only one that has all of these problems but I think this game is money well wasted.
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Summary: this game has problems!
Review: this game had so many problems for windows version.the first problem was belive it or not i had instalation problems it always had erroes and would close down during installastion.so i decided well i will try again and returned the copy of the game for a new one.well lets just say i tryed instalation again on 4 differnent computersd and always errors they all met system requirments my dads was brand new.finally my friend got it on his coputer and then i played it and of course more problems it kept crashing so finally i gave up on matrix PC version.so i played it on PS2 and it was great with better controls.So dont by this game for PC i recomend PS2 version.
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Summary: ...
Review: C'mon!! it's 2003!!! cars in this game have square wheels! this game has 2001 graphics and game play is horrible! The idea for this game is phenomenal, but execution is big ZERO. Save your money.
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Summary: Save your money!
Review: Don't be fooled. While The Matrix Reloaded might've been a GREAT movie, this game just doesn't cut it. The idea of the game is great, thus, giving this game great potential, but the developers simply didn't use all the potential it had. This game lacked in every aspect, the only thing that might've been good was the gameplay. The controls are espiecially difficult to master. I can't imagine what they were thinking, and why they didn't use different setups. The graphics are horrible as well, and the sound isn't original. The only thing that appealed to me (the only original idea of the game), is that you can hack into computers, where you'd be given a real DOS prompt, and you have to hack yourself in (without any command lists). But if you arn't a computer genius, that part will be hard as well, and you'll be forced to use guides. This game isn' worth the money at all, BELIEVE ME ON THIS!
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Summary: Not bad, not good.
Review: Enter the Matrix is not a bad game really, it can be really fun, but it's poorly made and few really memorable parts.
To start with the PC version is not really made for the PC. Off the shelf it's a raw console port. This results in some good to mediocre graphics, crippled controls, and various bugs. Options to configure the game for the PC are basic and absent are anything to enable better mouse support. All of this tells of a game with good intent, but not nearly enough development time to make it shine on the PC. For what it's worth it's still playable on the PC, but that alone isn't saying much. What really makes or breaks any game is the gameplay. At least EtM gives some great gaming moments that are all too few and far between. A neat example was watching Ghost finish a furious battle of hand to hand combat with a SWAT commando with a roundhouse kick that sent the trooper crashing in to the opposite wall, all in glorious dramatic bullet-time. There is a lot of fighting, but after the awe of bullet time wares off it gets repetitive. It would be one thing if the combat had any strategy or special moves, but it all boils down to button mashing. Keep hitting attack until they don't get up is all there is to it. Sure you can do it in slow motion, but it still amounts to button mashing. And don't expect any amazing AI or distinct weapons to use. Both are just fodder for bullet time. Although there are some great moments if you can pull off some great moves in bullet time. Such as doing cartwheels around enemies in slow motion while firing away. Or a jump kick that knocks an opponent off a sharp ledge. Meeting and beating some of the movie characters was cool too. The big selling point is how much the game is made with the real film actors and locations. And there are those, but not to any great extent. The game's two main characters combined have a paragraph worth of lines in the film. And most of the other characters you find amounted to little more than supporting roles. Don't expect much time with any of the stars like Neo or Morpheus. Although the game has a number of scenes using live actors, they are again supporting characters, minors roles and of no real importance. Still it's a treat to see scenes that seem cut right out of the movie, and some are. If you are a fan of the films this game was made for you, however it's a far cry from Game of the Year worthy material.
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Summary: Enter the Matrix (PC) Review
Review: After playing through Enter the Matrix you wonder if the last fifteen or twenty hours or so you spent playing it was really worth seeing a few extra scenes hacked (literally) out of the Matrix Reloaded movie or enduring the tedious driving/flying chase scenes, thinking all the while how this could have been a much better game. It's possible I'm being a bit too harsh. Then again, Infogrames - scratch that, make it the renamed company Atari - spent reportedly (according to BusinessWeek) around $80 million US (including the purchase of Shiny Entertainment, the developers) to create this cross-platform extravaganza of mediocrity. 4 CDs and 3 gigabytes of installation love later, it's high time to finally play this highly anticipated game. In essence, Enter the Matrix is the Matrix Reloaded Sideshow, unraveling bits and pieces of the movie's plot that got no or very little celluloid time. I won't reveal any of it here except the game starts out with an attempt to retrieve the drop-box package left in the Matrix by the crew of the Osiris, the ship featured in the anime DVD tie-in, the Animatrix. The package, later revealed as a video message, contains intelligence information that the machines are boring their way to Zion, the rebel stronghold in the "real world." This information is then revealed in the movie. The interweaving of the plots between the movie, the game, and in a few parts the tie-in anime DVD, is really one of the bright spots here. The plot of the game unfolds in conjunction with the movie, though really not much of the real plot of the movie is really revealed, which can be disconcerting, seeing that the game is said (I never timed it) to contain about 70 minutes of footage shot during filming of the movie. When you finish a level or get past something important, you'll see more of the footage - or footage of an in-game cut scene, which can be really annoying. Players can pick and choose which character they want to play, Niobe or Ghost, and the game is somewhat different, depending on the character. For instance, in the driving scenes, Niobe drives while Ghost shoots. At another, Ghost acts to distract enemy snipers while Niobe navigates around them to get inside a power plant complex. Much of the game therefore consists of a behind-the-back third-person action game that really resembles Max Payne. The 3d environments are, like the rest of the game, a mixture of good things and bad things - most of the environments seem empty and very nondescript, while others (typically smaller environments) are well-crafted and detailed, featuring polished marble floors and the like. A few feature destructible objects and structures, though they seem to have no real purpose except to make players say "wow that's cool." Gameplay is very combat oriented; you'll frequently encounter a host of human civilians, guards, police and military types, as well as the occasional agents and other rogue programs. Enter the Matrix offers a variety of weapons to use, as well as a fair number of hand-to-hand combat moves. For instance, you have your standard hand or kick-type attacks and combos, as well as disarming attacks, behind-the-back attacks, and so forth. On top of all that, there is the slow-motion "bullet-time" Focus mode you can enter, which allows your character to do more fantastic or hard-hitting moves, aim better, run on walls, and other nigh-impossible things. You only have limited focus points that regenerate slowly after time (health is the same way incidentally), so use it wisely. The use of weapons can be a bit of a problem - in default third-person mode aim is very much accomplished by an internal auto-targeting mechanism, so you don't really get to aim but aim generally, your character takes care of the rest. Since enemies go behind cover frequently, a number of shots will typically go astray. This means going to first-person mode, though it hardly feels interactive at all - there's no recoil, just a stream of boring bullets; remember Duck Hunter? You can't move forward or backward in first-person mode either. Since combat is important, the interface should be equally up to the task, but it isn't. In fact it feels clunky at times, and the third-person camera switches to inconceivable action-camera-style views and other angles at the worst moments, sometimes even blocking your view. It sure helps that the enemy won't try to attack you while doing these super-cool moves. All of this would sound cool generally, but there is a lot of things that really drag this game down. The driving sequences, on a whole, really [stink]. It's hard to conceive of a worse gameplay mode Shiny could have put into this game. The use of Focus mode suddenly makes everything very choppy, while it should be smooth and even - like Max Payne. Some levels feature unlimited hordes of people to fight; others have the typical console-game boss creature. There is only level-based saving, no in-game saves. Some of the stupid plot points of the Matrix Reloaded make their way into the game, more than once. It's very, very easy to waste ammunition, and you'll also spend a bit of time running away from something. Finally, there's even an homage to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Okay, the tip system is very handy (though it gets in the way at times) and there is an entire Hacking mode which is devious and harkens back to old DOS days, letting you unlock things in the game before you get to them, if you're good enough). After tallying off some good and bad points, you can see where this is a pretty cool game, though it's got so many negatives against it that it's very hard to recommend. If you're a Matrix fan, sure, why not, but maybe this is better served as a bargain bin game. Still... 80 million, for this?
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Summary: Mediocre, frustrating
Review: I might otherwise have given this game two stars, but to see it's average rating up above that is a travesty. The gameplay is spaztic, the slow-motion doesn't nearly do the movie effects justice, the automatic camera movement is *horrid, horrid, horrid*, the controls are herky-jerky at best and what is up with strafe *only* movement in first person mode?? No forward/backward unless in third person! We've been using forward/backward in first person for, oh, more than a decade? The aiming controls, don't get me started! Have we jumped so far back that we have to resort to auto-aim? I am convenced anyone who gives this game more than three stars hasn't played it at all or at most for more than an hour. The problems are just too many to overlook. No multiplayer, it was yanked probably because, like everything else about this game, it was rushed out the door. Some of the console versions, which they obviously worked on before the PC port, can have multiplayer enabled, but not the PC. Maybe some day in the future it will be enabled in a patch. The graphics are *nothing* to write home about, *especially* when compared to some of the excellent incarnations of the Unreal and Q3 games out there. Return to Castle Wolfenstein had much, much, much better character detail and movement, for example. You hear about how much money they threw at this game, I think that was mostly because they needed to just to get the game out the door in time and not because it includes anything remotely new or interesting. Everything done in this game has been done better in other games. 1-2 stars rating--*especially* at [the price]...
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Summary: No No No
Review: Don't do it. Don't waste your money on this dog. I could not believe how terrible the graphics looked and how terribly the game controls were. I would not care if they somehow managed to put the whole Matrix reloaded movie into the game, still doesn't make up for the fact that you buy a game to play it, not watch it. Oh, and by the way, the movie was pretty silly also.
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Summary: over priced for a ho-hum game
Review: I personally liked Matrix Reloaded, but not as much as the first movie. But this game is quite dull. I have not finished it yet, but have not been that compelled to even play it for more than the couple of hours I have put in so far. There are only 2 characters and 3 difficulty levels so replay value is minimal. The controls are awkward, the graphics lackluster, and the game plot is boring. The focus/bullet time gimmick is not that great and certainly cannot salvage this game. Save your money-there are much better games out there.
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Summary: Very ordinary
Review: There's nothing special about this game. It's cool to go into focus mode and dodge bullets, but the game itself isn't that great. I've heard great things about the console versions, and I believe them, I just think that the PC version was a rush job shipped out the door in a hurry. The camera angles just plain suck when you are in hand to hand combat, and it's hard to aim at enemies when kung fu-ing them with your fists. My kung fu battles were reduced to going into focus mode and charging my enemies, then wall-run kicking them, or kick them with a flying kick. That, or whip out your horribly inaccurate pistols and attemp to plug them full of lead. I have to admit, some of the massive fights are cool, but would be so much cooler if you could do more moves and combos. Speaking of combos, the manual says that there will be many, and that they will be easy to figure out, and it even give some examples. But they're extrodinarily hard to pull off, and even when you do, they don't pack the punch you'd expect. This game is also not very system-friendly, so unless you have a darn powerful rig, play it in safe mode. It's really too bad, because from the early screenshots, this game looked to be simply fantastic. However, now that I lay my hands on it, it's a rushed out the door mess. Too bad.
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