The interweaving plot linking with that of the films will inject it with a level of immersion and significance rarely seen in a videogame, while the gameplay is set to offer more diversity than ten of its competitors.
Not so, says Dave, who explains that Shiny's ground-breaking cross-platform engine was designed from the ground up to use every machine to its full potential.
Every minute spent making the game causes the results to appear on all four platforms. No matter what platform you're using, the game engine is squeezing every last bit of performance out of the hardware. The versions will all feel the same when you play, but there will be graphical differences due to the different types of hardware you're using. The only major control change is by using a mouse on the PC.
I just wish all consoles had a mouse controller, too. For a while, our conversation meanders around an already touched-on subject -the plot - while the room grows darker and rain assaults the windowpanes like giant strands of wire.
As if sensing that the setting somewhat mirrors a scene from the film, Dave pulls out the most apt quote of the evening. No one can be told what Enter The Matrix is I smile knowingly. Zion is under a great threat, and everyone -Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, Niobe and Ghost - must all race against time to save Zion and ultimately mankind itself. There's some info for all you film lovers then, but shockingly, Enter The Matrix will not allow you to play the role of any character from The Matrix.
Yep, you read right. You can't be Neo. Or Morpheus. Or Trinity. But surely, if it's is to capture the true spirit of the films, Enter The Matrix must allow you to be the heroes already immortalised in our minds? Playing a new character with no background or history other than that explored within the game will surely come as a gargantuan disappointment to fans the world over.
Dave disagrees. And not without good reason. All the major characters from the first film are present in the game, but you'll play as either Niobe or Ghost, two new characters who appear in The Matrix Reloaded.
Niobe is a hard-as-nails asskicker or bottom-kicker as you would call it in Blighty. Clearly Dave has spent little time in the UK of late. She's the best driver in the game. Ghost is the weapons guru - think of him as a Zen-Buddhist-Apache-Assassin. Who will very soon be as beloved by us as any from the original film?
I stand corrected. As time pushes on and the rain subsides to a redundant dribble, I usher Dave down the road of narrative presentation. Cut-scenes and plot details can be a fickle friend to action games, often turning the emphasis away from the conflict to the point of boredom. It's a relief to see that Dave holds many of the same plot-based ideals as I do. I don't mind being interrupted by cut-scenes if it's cool and interesting stuff I'm about to see. I thought some of the Metal Gear Solid 2 cut-scenes were mind-numbingly boring to watch; they droned on and on.
The problem it suffered from was that some of them were cool, some were even important, and far, far, far too many were complete ass, err, I mean bottom'. Stop that. With Enter the Matrix, there is an hour of original motion picture footage shot just for the game, using the real actors, the real sets and directed by the Wachowskis themselves. If you are a Matrix fan, you just can't miss it. Utterly and totally. The Wachowskis have broken dramatically with the tradition of filmmakers - not only by working closely with the developers to ensure the game meets the same superb quality of the films, but by actually making the game an essential complement to those films.
The one hour of FMV footage will be worth the entrance fee alone. As the conversation rolls to a halt with the customary exchange of pleasantries, Dave Perry can surely not miss the excitement on my face, betrayed by an idiotic smile usually reserved exclusively for the mentally unsound.
He's shown me that there is another world out there, one of adventure, intrigue, subterfuge and danger, one waiting to be discovered come May 15, which will take me - and you - away from our daily grind, fading our predictable and stagnant existence to a shadowy memory, till it disappears and becomes little more than a dream.
No Matrix game would be complete without the recreation of the superb fight scenes of the film. Of course, this complex system, where you can bend the rules' is no easy feat to implement into a game. But when you have Master Yuen Wo Ping the martial arts legend behind the film's gravity defying choreography working with you, then you're certainly in with a bloody good chance of pulling it off. However, no information has been forthcoming from Shiny regarding the use of Bullet Time' slo-mo effects in the game, although I suspect that comments about bending the rules' could be a veiled way of talking about the subject.
Just like the film, we wanted the player to be able to run up a wall, nail two guys with a flying kick, somersault across the floor and pick up a pistol in the same motion, shoot two more guys, then judo throw another guy over the edge of rooftop. And we've got all of that in the game and more than 3, other moves, enthuses Dave.
Max Payne, eat you heart out. I was going to make a joke here about prancing, somersaulting pansies, but decided against it as Master Yuen might get wind of it and kill me with his thumb. So probably best I just let this one go, eh?
One of the most interesting and unique aspects of Enter The Matrix is set to be its hacking options. In typically post-modern form, the game will try to convince you that you're not playing a game at all, but actually sitting at your computer, hacking into the Matrix to uncover its secrets. Well maybe Dave can make more sense of it for you.
Hacking is like a game-within-a-game, where you can hack into your character and the game console. As it emulates you sitting at a computer, that section feels somewhat like a text adventure from the good old gaming days. Subscribe to our FREE newsletter. Free and instant download. I have never understood why this game has been given such a bad reputation.
Enter the Matrix is a spin off from the hugely popular Matrix series starring Ghost and Niobe. This is the first point of contention for many as Ghost especially was little more than a cameo role in the films and if you want to have some highly philisophical and impactful plot to go alongside the events of the movies you are going to be sorely disappointed.
The game plays as a hybrid third person shooter and brawler. Whilst you can shoot your enemies, going into focus or bulletime mode and charging them with your fists raised is often a fairly sound tactic. The melee system is by far the most fun part of the game, nothing particularly complex but very satisfying in an almost Arkham Asylum style way. Extended sections of shooting are broken up with a session or tow as either the gunner or pilot of a car or a hovership respectively depending on whether you chose to be Ghost the gunner or Niobe the pilot.
These are generally The car controls very badly and the turret sections are either insultingly easy or insane depending on how the ai feels today. One feature that is very nice is the agents. You meet agents at points during the plot and whilst you can stand and fight they are immortal to the likes of you. I would have prefered if they killed you faster but they still add an air of authenticity to the experience that is appreciated. In fact in general this is a well presented game with live action cutscenes from the actors who played Niobe and Ghosst in the films and a fairly good looking aesthetic.
I can't stop ignoring the problems forever though, my rose tinted glasses are really starting to crack. The gun play is lousy, feeling weak and useless, level design is often poor and confusing without clear objectives, there is an escort mission where you cant help the escort in any way so it is pot luck as to whether he survives, generally the game feels unbalanced and quite buggy, flipping off and over invisible objects, wall running when not intended, endless forward dives that seem to float for minutes, lack of much challenge in the main game Personally I love Enter the Matrix for the dumb easy action game it is and, who knows, maybe you can look past some of its rather major issues and see the game I fell in love with.
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