Neo-Matrix game named, detailed

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Atari today made an official announcement on the next installment of games based on the Matrix franchise. Dubbed The Matrix: Path of Neo, the game is set in the universe of The Matrix trilogy. Path of Neo will jack into PCs, PlayStation 2s, and Xboxes this coming holiday season. The title is being developed by Shiny Entertainment, the studio behind 2003's Enter the Matrix.

While the existence of an upcoming Matrix title has been known for a while, the name and details of the project were revealed only today. In The Matrix: Path of Neo, gamers will play as Neo, the sci-fi savior set to free humans from their prisons of virtual reality as created by an invading alien species. The game will feature gameplay based on scenes from The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Animatrix collection of anime shorts.

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News source: GameSpot

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The Wachowski brothers, creators of the Matrix films, will be heavily involved in the game. According to Atari, "The path the player takes to resolve each scenario and the resulting consequences will be scripted and directed by the Wachowski Brothers." The game will also feature the likenesses of the actors portrayed in the films--Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, and Laurence Fishburne and more will be included--as well as footage from all four films of the franchise.

The game is being developed even though its predecessor was little more than a virus in critic's lists. Released in 2003, Enter the Matrix received mediocre reviews. Despite the critical drubbing, it has sold nearly six million units worldwide, and featured an original plotline which took place alongside the events of Reloaded.

While The Matrix: Path of Neo won't be released for around nine months, Matrix-mad gamers will be able to jack into the favorite artificial reality much sooner. The Matrix Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game being published by Sega and Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, hits PCs March 22.

(1 reply) #1 warning1 on 14 Feb 2005 - 22:15

To sum it up in a word ...crap.

#1.1 shao on 15 Feb 2005 - 11:18

to sum you up in a word ...idiot.

this game != EtM, or Matrix Sequels, More importantly, it's not even released yet.

#2 empty on 14 Feb 2005 - 22:33

DAMN. i wish they made more matrix games, nothing helps me remember how **** the last two films were better than continually producing equally crappy games.

(1 reply) #3 Liquid on 14 Feb 2005 - 22:47

They just keep on milking the dry cash cow

#3.1 forster on 15 Feb 2005 - 14:09

Pretty much dead on what I was thinking.

(1 reply) #4 versiondub on 14 Feb 2005 - 23:12

"footage from all four films of the franchise. " ???

#4.1 MiloX on 14 Feb 2005 - 23:29

The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Animatrix

#5 supersaiyanjericho on 14 Feb 2005 - 23:51

hey Enter The Matrix was awesome. hopefully it's going to be something like that.

(4 replies) #6 Andos on 15 Feb 2005 - 00:31

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from their prisons of virtual reality as created by an invading alien species.

wtf??? The humans made the machines. There are no aliens

#6.1 nihilistphx™ on 15 Feb 2005 - 01:02

that is definately not a good sign

#6.2 panacea on 15 Feb 2005 - 03:34

Wow, so it was aliens all along????

After watching Reloaded I lost interest in matrix series. and judging by this games and reviews rightfully so.

#6.3 Hekx on 15 Feb 2005 - 10:32

That line threw me out too.

Aliens!?

Hopefully that is just another term to describe MACHINES.
Or else this game is going to rip a greater whole in the series known as "The Matrix"...

#6.4 shao on 15 Feb 2005 - 11:07

there's nothing like making your own mind up

#7 kevcart3 on 15 Feb 2005 - 03:11

It's one thing to make a game about a movie, but another thing to completely run it into the ground.

(3 replies) #8 WitCh-Fire on 15 Feb 2005 - 07:48

Wtf

There are no "Invading Alien Species", its Machines created by man.

#8.1 shao on 15 Feb 2005 - 11:19

http://www.answers.com/alien&r=67

alien doesn't have to mean little green men in flying saucers

#8.2 weenur on 15 Feb 2005 - 18:55

"alien species" - means a species not native to Earth.

#8.3 shihchiun on 16 Feb 2005 - 00:41

I didn't know computers came from outer space...

(1 reply) #9 shao on 15 Feb 2005 - 11:13

i think some people are forgetting this is by shiny, who have very rarely made dudds, the extremely rushed (and therefore pap EtM being the only one inface). unlike most people here, i'm more than willing to see what this game has to offer, with 2+ extra years to work on a matrix franchise after EtM it has the chance to be a good game. And lets face it, although alot of people failed to understand, or even want to understand the underlying plot of the matrix sequels, you can't deny that the martial arts + bullet time + gun play make a great combination that still hasn't truely been exploited fully in a game.... at least not until f.e.a.r. comes out. ;-)

#9.1 toadeater on 15 Feb 2005 - 20:01

Do you realize that WB owns both the Matrix franchise and Monolith, and that Monolith is making the Matrix Online and F.E.A.R.? F.E.A.R. looks ok, but this Matrix stuff... well, no comment.

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-matrix-online/538261p1.html?fromint=1

#10 Mx² on 15 Feb 2005 - 13:15

Doubt this will be much good.

#11 Hekx on 15 Feb 2005 - 14:23

I guess they are going after the audience of TMO users who will get ticked off with not being "Neo".

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