Enter the Matrix is a 2003
action-adventure video game developed
by Shiny Entertainment and published by
Infogrames under the Atari brand name.
It was the first game based on The Matrix film series. Its story
is concurrent with that of the film
The Matrix Reloaded and features over
an hour of original footage, written
and directed by the Wachowskis and
starring the cast of the films, produced for the game.
Released in May 2003, the same month
as The Matrix Reloaded, Enter the Matrix was
simultaneously produced with The
Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. While it received mixed
reviews from critics, the game sold
5 million copies as of May 2004.
Enter the Matrix gives players control of two of the supporting
characters from Reloaded and Revolutions,
Ghost (Anthony Wong) and Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith),
members of the same group of rebels as Morpheus, Trinity, and
Neo, the protagonists of the series. Niobe is the
Captain of the Logos, the fastest
ship in the rebel fleet. Ghost is the ship's first mate, weapons
guru, and a deep-thinking, philosophical assassin. The game takes
place at roughly the same time as the events in Reloaded.
Players play as either Niobe or Ghost, each of whom have slight
variations during their story. Most levels involve controlling
players in a
third-person perspective, using guns
and fighting skills to defeat opponents and complete level
objectives. At any time, players can activate
bullet time (called
"Focus" in the game) which slows down
time, giving players the ability to perform actions such as
shooting in midair and dodging bullets.
Some levels involve one-on-one martial arts fighting against
single opponents. In levels involving vehicles, such as driving a
car or piloting the Logos, the style of game play depends on the
selected player, commonly with Niobe
maneuvering the vehicles to avoid obstacles, whilst Ghost takes
control of a gun to fight off incoming enemies. A hacking system
allows players to enter codes, which can unlock special skills,
weapons and secrets, such as a 2-player versus mode.
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The Matrix : Path Of Neo (2005)
Review
6.5/10 By IGN
Description
The Matrix: Path of Neo is a 2005
action-adventure video game developed
by
Shiny Entertainment and published by Atari.
The game was written and co-directed by the
Wachowskis, who wrote and directed
the first three The Matrix films and the 2003 video game Enter the
Matrix, also developed by Shiny Entertainment. Players control the
character Neo, participating in
scenes from the films. The game received mixed reviews from critics.
The Matrix: Path of Neo allows the player to participate in many of
the major action scenes in the films.
Most of these sequences, picked by the movie directors themselves,
are taken from the first film in the series.
At the start of the game, the player is hacker
Thomas Anderson, and does not possess
any of the powers that the character will later discover as Neo. He
has to find his way through by
stealth and basic brawl. As the game
continues, players learn new skills and techniques, equipping Neo
for the final showdown with Agent Smith. These
additional skills may be
level and in the main game. Many of
these skills are used by Neo in the trilogy, including the
bullet dodge, bullet stop, and flight.
A number of weapons are available in the game, consisting of both
melee weapons (including various
types of swords, staves, and escrimas) and
firearms (assault rifle, sub-machine
gun, pistol etc.).
The game also allows the player to meet many of the characters in
the films, including
Trinity, Morpheus and the Merovingian, among others.
The game uses
film excerpts as cut scenes
throughout the game at certain milestones. This footage includes
clips from the
original The Matrix theatrical films,
and from other sources, including the short film series,
The Animatrix and Enter the Matrix.
The PC & Xbox versions also lack certain visual effects compared to
the PS2 version such as the image warping.
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The Matrix Awakens (2021)
Description
The Matrix Awakens is a 2021
open-world video game and technology demonstration
developed by Epic Games using
Unreal Engine 5 in partnership with
Warner Bros. Pictures, The Coalition, Wētā FX, Evil Eye Pictures,
SideFX, and others for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S,
serving as a marketing tie-in for the 2021 film The Matrix
Resurrections.
Released during the 2021 Game Awards on
December 9, 2021, it features Trinity
(Carrie-Anne Moss) and Neo (Keanu Reeves), along with
photorealistic 3D-scanned models of
both Moss and Reeves from the present time, portrayed by themselves,
in cinematic and QTE shooter scenes where the player can take
control of IO, a character which Epic introduced with
Unreal's MetaHuman creator tool.
While the
demo did not get a PC release, Epic
released the city environment in the demo as a
sample project titled "City Sample"
in their Unreal Engine 5 workshop. This was immediately used by fans
to generate a Windows executable package in which the city can be
navigated. It offered the ability to control several parameters of
the game engine. The game also features
NPCs with AI that will generate
conversations when players use the audio. The assets were also
reused later in several fan-made demos featuring characters such as
Spider-Man and Batman.
