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Matrix Path of Neo

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This is the game that should have been instead of Enter the Matrix. It is so much fun playing as Neo on a Matrix game. I haven't finished yet; but for what I have played, I have been almost 100% satisfied with the game but like all games, this has a few flaws.

One of the good parts about the game is that the controls are excellent. Neo pulls off some awesomely fantastic moves. The graphics are points are great, but at other points not so great. I agree that they could have been better. The fun factor is great, it is fun. The game is long, I've been playing for a few hours and I'm still on the first movie. The game also follows the movie almost exactly; some parts can be changed if you choose to do things different that what was seen on the movie.

There are some down sides to this game. The camera angles sometimes moves to places where you can't see some of the things that are going on screen. When you die or skip the story, some of the noise is occasionally lost during some battles. The only other big problem I have seen with the game is what Jeffrey S. Stanley "Viper_29 said that when the guns are used and I lock on to opponents, when they die the lock automatically aims at the floor instead of the next bad guy and it can be at times frustrating.

Overall great game, fans of the Matrix will love it, but it does have flaws. I do recommend this game

This is the game "Enter the Matrix" had wet dreams about. Fluid control, a deceptively deep combat system, and more jaw dropping fight scenes than you can shake a 9mm at. The gun combat could be a little more finely tuned, but it works. Though who would want to use a gun when you can run across a wall, jump off and spear someone to the floor, pick them up by their legs, swing them around in circles, and launch them at a group of their homies? Because you can do that.

Hey, what can i say? THIS game is much more like what the first game should've been.
This game is not linear as other reviewer(s) have suggested.
Yes, it follows a VERY familliar story-line for fans of the series. But, this program allows you to act out some of the BEST battles that NEO had to offer within the trilogy.
The way they meshed the movie bits with a new perspective was very nice. 600 DIFFERENT ATTACKS! I think that's incredible.
Some are so creative you'll find yourself attached to them more than others. But, there are so darn many you may never use all of them! New characters written in by the Wachowski's , come new environments, and the original voice actors. Better graphics than the first, better action. Easier to control characters.
The only complaint i have is that your friends AI is not all too smart. Once in a while they'll walk right in front of you while you're shooting and bite the big one. Or, stand too close when you detonate a bomb and (again) bite the big one.
Other than that, this was as great as i expected it to be.
I'm not even a die hard fan of the movie franchise.
I am, however, a fan of this game. A fun program whether you're a hardcore fan or not. But, it does help to know at least a little about the movie first.

First off, the only problem I have with this seller is that they never mentioned
that it was NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE, but beyond that, everything was satisfactory on
the seller's part.

I played this game years back, and I ordered it after watching the trilogy recently.
I opened the game and put it in my 360 only to find that the game is NOT BACKWARDS
COMPATIBLE!!!

Nobody had made comments on the product concerning this issue. I would have never thought
about this previous to having this specific problem. I am horribly disappointed and now I
have a fun game that I will not be able to play at all :(

Okay, I have seen quite a few reviews on this game and people either love it or hate it. There is no middle ground. I have to say that while I haven't finished the game, I can report on what I have seen so far.

In regards to the graphics, I think this game pulls it off fairly well. I haven't noticed much of any lagging in the frame rate department. Yes, the graphics could have been better, but as they are I have no significant complaints. They are better than Enter the Matrix (ETM). They are definitely of a newer generation quality on the Xbox. While the graphics of the characters look good, there is a lot of background that also factors in. When you fight someone and knock them into a wall or other structure, that structure will break and reflect the hit.

The fighting system is fairly good. They have made it fairly simple and I never considered it a button mashing style. You basically have a few buttons that you use in addition to using the left joystick. You will accumulate moves as you progress through the game and also increase your "focus" which allows you to do all the famous moves from the Matrix universe such as dodging bullets and such. The training missions were a little long but they do help you to get a grip on the combat system. I have had several moments where I fought multiple opponents and had two attack me at once. I was able to grab them both as they swung at me and grabbed one hand and then the hand of the other and was able to defeat them while holding them together at the same time. It was one of the coolest moves I have ever seen in a game and it was silky smooth while it happened. You can move the camera angle during the fights and when you perform a special move the time will slow down and you can swing the camera to view it at any angle. Nice touch.

The shooting portion of the game is the one letdown here. You have to click the right joystick to draw the weapons and then you have to use the right joystick to switch from target to target by moving it left or right. The bad thing here is that you will continue to shoot a person even after they are dead. This makes you waste too much ammo. I had to switch back and forth from having my weapons drawn to switch to another target. Another annoying thing was that the camera lock would lock in a position even after the body of the person was gone. Again I had to click the right joystick and reclick it again to move on. The jump moves are nice when you engage the focus and you can pick people off from in the air.

There was a new ending rewritten for this game that is different from the movie. I haven't seen it yet but if I had I wouldn't post it to spoil it for any others playing the game. All in all it is a entertaining game that is worlds better than ETM. One thing when I popped it in the Xbox last night while playing it I definitely wanted to pop in my Matrix DVD to watch it again. This is definitely a renter for everyone. If you are a Matrix fan, you will most likely enjoy this game quite a bit. I could see a bit of influence from the Mortal Kombat games in the training sequence. When you play it you will probably see it as well. My local EB was able to hold a copy for me but they completely sold out of all the copies they had. They told me they were following the sales performance of this game but they suspected that it would be a sleeper hit. If sales of ETM are any signal, then this game will probably sell well into the millions. Give it a try. Chances are you will enjoy it enough to say "that wasn't a bad game at all". Enjoy.

I'm a huge fan of the Matrix Trilogy. I've watched all 3 movies several times because they're so incredible and revolutionary, and I was ecstatic when I heard that video games about it were going to be released. Having heard from reviews that this game was much better than "Enter The Matrix," I played this first before trying that game, and my final conclusion is that they're both better than each other in different aspects. In terms of hand-to-hand combat and environmental physics, Path of Neo comes out on top. However, with the gunplay and production value, it loses out to its older cousin and casts a pervasive dark cloud over your overall experience.

In Path of Neo, you get to play as Neo (The One), and pull off all sorts of gravity-defying, brutal moves that Ghost and Niobe only dreamed about. The combat system here is definitly above Enter the Matrix. There's a system similar to a Role-Playing Game where you earn points at the end of levels that you can use to buy more powerful moves. And you're able to potentially pull off around 600 manuevers based on how many opponents are around you and your position, so the fighting never gets old one bit. I'm talking about really long, extended combos that can demolish even the strongest agents you come across. Focus mode provides for even cooler moves, like running up and across walls, jumping extremely high, using enemies' weapons and guns against them, and being able to dodge and freeze bullets. Coupled with a recharchable heath system that refills if you don't take any damage, and you feel like the ultimate martial arts machine capable of brutally maiming anyone who stands in your way.

And let's not forgot the killer physics, brought to you by the "Havok Physics Engine." Enemies fly and tumble through the air with flips and cartwheels after they die. Almost every inch of the environment can be destroyed, making for a real treat when you throw someone through a broken wall or shoot a gas tank in a tiny room. The helicopter mini-game really shows off the true power of the physics and destructibility, as you send enemies flying like ragdolls when you shoot them, destroy windows with wonderful explosions of glass, and cause entire floors of buildings to crumble apart. The destruction you can cause in this game is uncomparable to most other titles out there.

However, this game definitly falls below "Enter the Matrix" in other key areas. The first is the gunplay. The mechanics for this are built around an auto-aim that can become really uncooperative at times. At times, the auto-aim stays focused on an enemy even after he's dead and won't let you switch to another one. The only solution is to put your weapon away, then take it back out again. This is really frustrating when you have a whole boatload of enemies firing at you all at once. Also, sometimes you can't target an environmental explosive to take out a group of enemies even when you think you should. You have to just shoot them all personally, which could result in losing a great deal of health. With "Enter the Matrix," you had a free-look system where you could aim anywhere you wanted. You also could perform a focus dive where time slowed down and you could easily shoot down a dozen enemies before hitting the floor. It makes you wonder why the developers couldn't have just stuck with that system rather than changing it to an unreliable auto-aiming system. That would've made the gunplay a whole lot more enjoyable and you'd want to use it as much as possible.

The second issue is the production quality of the whole game, specifically the framerate, which has a major effect on gameplay. Path of Neo seriously has one of the worst framerates I've ever experienced. For most of the time you're playing, it chugs at a very slow speed like the game is having a really bad seizure. This makes some of the really big fights clumsy and awkward, as you often can't tell what's happening amid the massive numbers of enemies and the jerky slowdown. The other production issues don't necessarily affect the gameplay so much as to blatantly emphasize the unpolished and primitive feel the game has. The in-game cutscenes look, to put it blatantly, really terrible. Characters look mutated and deformed, the graphics mix into each other like a messy bowl of soup, the spastic slowdown is present here as well, and there's a ton of really obvious pop-in of additional graphical details and objects as the camera zooms progressively closer to certain areas. On top of that, the sound effects in the game are sometimes cut out by weird glitches; this mainly happens when you choose to skip over a cutscene and not let it play all the way through, but there's sporadic instances where it happens during actual normal gameplay. Behind all these very bad aspects, however, are some tiny good ones. From the default in-game perspective, the graphics actually look decent, and some levels are really atmospheric and beautiful. The best graphical moments in the game are when you're just running through the levels, not fighting anyone, just taking in the scenery around you, and the framerate is not having a massive bout of epilepsy. These moments make you see the potential that this game could've had production-wise.

Overall, Path of Neo is better than Enter The Matrix in hand-to-hand combat and environmental physics, but definitly not in the shooting mechanics and overall production quality. I really think the developers should've kept Enter the Matrix's shooting mechanics and made the game a seventh-gen launch title. The more advanced hardware could've made the graphics look even more amazing, eliminated the extremely jerky framerate, fixed the sound glitches, and possibly help the game sell even more than Enter the Matrix. Oh well. If you have both games, you can enjoy them both for the specific areas that they excel in and have a well-rounded Matrix experience.

i couldn't believe the low price i was able to purchase this game on amazon vs your local brick and mortar stores. i only wish this game was available on ps3 or a sequel be made...

Finally, you get to play as Neo, the One.

Story: you play as Neo throughout the Matrix Trilogy films. Cut scenes in the game are from the actual movies, including the short film series, Animatrix. If you have seen the movies, you know the story. You start being Thomas Anderson while still plugged into the matrix. You try and escape from the agents but you have no powers yet. You proceed through the movies, escaping the matrix, training, fighting agents, fighting Merovingian's thugs, and eventually the show down with Agent Smith, though it does go down different from the movie. Before the scene, the Wachowski brothers explain the reason behind the altered ending from the movie.

Gameplay: This is an action game, third person shooter/beat 'em up. You play through various scenes from the movies (escaping your office, fighting in the construct, fighting agent Smith in the school yard, fighting the Merovingian, and taking on agent Smith in the finale, etc) as well as many new scenes that are only mentioned in the trilogy film (extended escape scenes from the office and the building you were trapped in, tons of fighting areas during your training in the construct, helping the ship's captains get back to their ships after the secret meeting, extended puzzle levels while fighting the Merovingian, red-pill missions where Neo retrieves other "potentials", extra scene of taking on mega Smith in the finale, etc). You have powers similar to Neo in the movies, such as the bullet dodge, bullet stop, slow-down, and flight, among others. You use melee weapons such as swords and firearms such as assault rifle, pistol, machine gun, etc. You interact with several characters from the game like Trinity, Morpheus, Merovingian, Key Maker, etc. The levels are both fun and challenging. You learn new skills throughout the game that help you advance and eventually end up taking on Agent Smith.

Conclusion: the controls are excellent. The graphics are good Xbox quality. The Xbox version received a better rating than both the PC and PS2 versions. The story won't make sense to anyone that hasn't seen the films so I would only recommend this to fans of the Trilogy film. Even though you play a lot of extra scenes that weren't in the movies, it is still a blast to play and there are still a lot of levels that are in the movies. All the levels are fun and challenging and the boss fight in the end is both funny (Mega Smith throwing agent Smiths at you) and challenging. Worth picking up because it is probably the last game to the films, though I hope I am wrong and they bring this to the next gen consoles.

Bought this for my boyfriend for Christmas (he still has the original xBox) and he loved it! Although the case was a little (more like a lot) beat up, the disk was in perfect codnition.

this game was very good but it was very strange if you didn't watch te movie it will be very strange and it is also very hard.