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Re-enter The Matrix with Path of Neo News
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Tom Bramwell
No one can be told that Shiny's working on another Matrix game; you knew that already. However, Atari has finally given the persistent rumour of another Matrix title substance by announcing that The Matrix: Path of Neo for PS2, Xbox and PC will be released in Q4 2005.
And interestingly, despite all-those-involved's previous assertions that Neo was "too powerful" to be a player-character (hence Enter The Matrix's bit-parts, and the "no fly" rule in The Matrix Online), that's all this one does. You play as Neo and relive the best bits of the trilogy.
As with 2003's style-over-substance title Enter The Matrix, Path of Neo is being developed by Shiny Entertainment with collaboration from trilogy producer Joel Silver and, critically, the elusive Wachowski brothers. The path the player takes in resolving each situation will be scripted and directed by the brothers, with all the actors and actresses' likenesses intact, and we'll also see footage from all three films and The Animatrix woven into the storytelling side of the game.
Sort of a Lord of the Rings: The Third Age for The Matrix, then, which needn't be a bad thing. Having been given one of the most destructive and adrenaline-fuelled central protagonists in cinema history to play with though (a character so fundamentally cool, lest we forget, that his appeal even overcome the use of Keanu Reeves), we only hope Shiny learns from past errors and does Path of Neo justice.
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Tiger_Walts
14/02/05 @ 15:21
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"There is no spoon."
"There is, right here." "That's a spatula!" "No, it's a spoon, we just didn't use enough polygons to make it curved..." |
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MEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!! You're a sheep? ;) I honestly didn't mind Enter the Matrix for a bit of fighting, although it did wear thin rather quickly. Definitely never got around to playing as both characters. And yes, this game holds no interest what-so-ever. Ah well. Max |
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Master Cheif
14/02/05 @ 15:31
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"So you'll die in the end, right? "
YEP........................... unless they change the endling ;) |
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Royal Fool
14/02/05 @ 15:35
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"They guys over at Shiny must be well pissed off to have been working on this for so long only to have the last two films meet with a massive wall of 'meh'."
You mean that they were proud of their sub-standard movie tie-in game with the immense production budget and outrageous hype? They don't really have anyone to blame, except themselves. Well, and Atari for forcing the game out too soon in that condition. And Interplay. |
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Singularity
14/02/05 @ 15:38
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/tries to hide interest
/fails I'll put my hand up and say that I liked films two and three and even quite enjoyed Enter the Matrix, so I'm looking forward to this. |
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deathgibbon
14/02/05 @ 15:38
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It could be good. No, really. ETM was half-way decent and had a good combat system. This time you're playing as Neo, so the combat will be better and more exciting.
The last 2 movies were crap and this is a bit late, non? |
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Thamuhacha
14/02/05 @ 15:39
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>This would be pretty hard to mess up, but they would have to find a way to make it possible for Neo to die. The bullet doging could be superbly implemented into the gameplay. So I say, Shiny, make a beautifal game and superb us all, and this will easily be one of the top-selling games of all time!
That's a wind up right Paolo?
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Great. We already know the scenarios. We already know the ending. We already know how the fights are *meant* to look in all their glory, and yet we'll be hamstrung by a limited reportois of moves.
Isn't a better way "reliving" these situations a case of "re-watching the movies"? Am I rite? Oh wait... the movies were not all they were cracked up to be. What a dilemma! Given that the original was forced out of the door, and that there is no critical time frame for this, I'm willing to believe that Shiney can get it right this time (I seriously hope they do). I *can* believe, but I *expect* to be underwhelmed. Please prove me wrong, because I don't have any problems with good games being made. |
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magicpocket
14/02/05 @ 15:49
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ROYAL FOOL wrote: They don't really have anyone to blame, except themselves. Well, and Atari for forcing the game out too soon in that condition. And Interplay.
Err, wasn't it Warner's fault? The game had to ship when the film shipped. As far as i'm aware it was Shiny's first PS2/XB/GC game so they didn't have any experience on those platforms - whereas i'm sure they would have gotten more time if it didn't have to tie in with the film
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markypants
14/02/05 @ 17:07
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I have faith that they will finally get right what they set out to do with the first one. I didn't 'hate' this game as much as I was supposed to. But. It had a lot to do with my obsession with the movies.
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Royal Fool
14/02/05 @ 18:32
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Warner Bros, not Universal. And I don't give a damn about them wanting it out for the movies' releases, it's still something that Atari could have negotiated on. Surely they must have known how crap the game was when it was decided to have it released and could have delayed it? No, instead they cashed in on the movie craze and released a unpolished and buggy game.
Yes, it was Shiny's first attempt at the current consoles plus PC, which should be even more reason to have the game delayed until it has been sufficiently fixed. Or just cut the GC/Xbox releases immediately and have it go only for PS2 and PC. All in all, Atari were stupid and screwed up but were saved by the uninformed masses that bought the game and made it such a hit. |
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The Bodybuilder
14/02/05 @ 19:52
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" the elusive Wachowski brothers"
Erm, you mean the watchowski brother and "sister", considering one of them is now a "woman". |
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GitSomE UK
14/02/05 @ 20:39
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Snnoooozzzze... stirs, farts zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
So late, so meh and just so what?! |
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The Bodybuilder
15/02/05 @ 16:29
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"Eh? SERIOUSLY?! Whoa..."
I thought everyone knew? Considering it was in newspapers and internet sites? He did it about 3-4 months ago and is probably still recovering from his "snipping". |
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A case for me of, "Enter the Meh-trix".
The Matrix, the original, was cool. But it's gone a bit pear-shaped from there. Please prove me wrong Shiny... I'm begging for you to make this a great game... edit: BTW, I believe the technical reference I've heard is, "The Watchowski Twins"... but they're not even twins, are they? so how the **** do they work this one out?
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My main problem with the movie sequels is that they didn't plan for them beforehand. The first movie had an ENDING. It should've ended right there - Neo became all-powerful, the Matrix was beaten. In the second and third ones, he's still all-powerful, and this makes the battles less interesting, because you know there's no way he can lose. It's no fun to watch completely invincible people fight.
And there was too much philosophising, as if the philosophy was what people liked the most about the first movie. It felt like a videogame with boring cutscenes. |
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Madder Max
21/02/05 @ 15:37
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"Well, for one thing, the Matrix IS philosophy" LOL!
Yeah.....The MacDonalds Cod philosophy!! |
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Granted, the universe was left unexplored in the first movie. We never saw Zion, for one thing. But Neo's story was finished. In the first film, before he became the One, he was a vunerable human being. A human being with potential, yes, but still very vunerable. I reckon it would have been better if he didn't become so powerful. I could've then seen the sequel as the next stage on his path to being the One. The way it was, the fight scenes just became pointless, like they were just fillers between Neo's talks with the Oracle or the Colonel guy. Or they could've done a sequel that explored another side of the conflict, like some of the Animatrix shorts did.
I'm not against having philosophy in films, if that's what they're about. If I'm going to see an kungfu action movie like the first Matrix, having the cool premise to think over is welcome, as long as it doesn't get too bogged down in details. It COMPLEMENTED the first film, in a good way. The sequels allowed the philosophy to dig its claws into the plot to the point where it slowed the whole movie down. |
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