Enter The Matrix Comments by Kristan Reed
Kristan really thinks that's air he's breathing
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These problems worry me ...
1.)Graphically though the game veers between the extremely impressive and the laughably bad 2.)Other areas were a cause for concern; notably the slightly eccentric camera and an absence of credible AI 3.)Enter The Matrix does offer driving and flying mission to add variety, but the on rails driving/shooting section that we saw lacked polish, with extremely low-poly cars exploding in a very bizarre and unconvincing fashion. Is this a sign of Shiny being rushed into finishing the project on schedule? Quite possibly, as stood next to, say, the James Bond driving/shooting missions in Agent Under Fire, it looks very poor indeed 4.)On the subject of AI, the game seems to have deliberately engineered a situation where you enter a room, clear it of baddies, move on, find more drones, etc, with hardly any call to utilise the rather basic stealth manoeuvres at your disposal. Even the health/focus system requires virtually no skill; with your health bar automatically rising to its maximum should you manage to avoid taking a hit for a few seconds, while your focus does the same This is one game that I will not be touching with a very large barge-pole. |
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"For those who need to know these things, the plot of Enter The Matrix isn't actually a retelling of any Matrix movie past or present, but is set immediately after one of the nine Animatrix animated shorts (entitled The Last Flight Of The Osiris, and produced by Square, fact fiends)"
That explains the re-use of some of the "Final Fantasy" Vactors then... Cheap gits! Peej |
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Oh and just in case no one's heard of the Animatrix shorts... linkage
You can download three of them, with one more to come at the start of May. The rest will be available on the Animatrix DVD out in June and Final Flight Of The Osiris is also attached to Dreamcatcher when it comes out on Friday in the cinemas. *edit* Kristan, did the Enter The Matrix game have the whole of Final Flight... included or just an excerpt?
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Sounds like a nice idea, but I'm still as sceptical as ever that this will just be a mass-market orientated movie tie-in with all the usual flaws of such games.
I'll be waiting for the EG review as well. And 6 disks (presumably ordinary CD-ROMs?) is just silly. Don't they realise that anyone with an adeqately specced-up PC to run this kind of game in the first place is going to have a DVD-ROM drive by now? |
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Have a look at this screenshot of the car in Enter the Matrix. o_O
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18/05/03 @ 03:17
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CONNECTION ESTABLISHED
SENDING... Square wheels...yum. Luckily they're perfectly round in resolutions @ 1024x768 and higher. However, though the graphics may be amazing at times they do not make up for the AI's complete lack of steering capabilities (when playing as Ghost). Apart from small glitches such as these, the game is your average 3D action game spiced with a few innovative ideas (such as all those nifty moves in HtH combat). In closing, it might not the 'One' some of you may have been waiting for but a damn good game nonetheless. Stay tuned for the Matrix MMORPG in a year or two... END TRANSMISSION CONNECTION CLOSED
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