Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2522 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2005-11-11
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Set in the Matrix film universe, The Matrix: Path of Neo will enable players to actually play as Neo, the central character, and relive his most important and memorable scenarios from the complete film trilogy.. Throughout the game the path the player takes to resolve each scenario and the resulting consequences will be scripted and directed by the Wachowski Brothers.

The Matrix: Path of Neo will incorporate footage from all three feature films, as well as The Animatrix. The game includes several sequences of film-quality live-action, full-motion footage (FMV), as well as Hollywood-quality effect sequences. Throughout the game players will use martial arts, medieval weapons and guns (lots of guns) to take on a variety of enemies, such as heavily armed Agents of the Matrix, including Agent Smith and Exiles in the employ of the Merovingian.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
If you're a massive fan of the Matrix, or you enjoyed the first Matrix game then dont bother reading the rest of this review, this game is for you so buy it!! For those who need convincing:

This game is a vast improvement on the first. There is much more variety in te fighting techniques and abilities which stops it from becoming repetative. Incorporating these moves in with melee weapons *think chateux scene from the second film and you'll get what i mean ;-)* and guns and the fight scenes can be spectacular. As you go through the game you learn new moves including killing moves which are the ultimate moves. Basically anything that you can do in the film you can do in the game.

The game follows the films well with some slight discrepancies which we shall leave up to poetic license!

Now the drawbacks, as mentioned is other reviews the graphics are a bit lame. I understand they probably did this to make sure all of the game ran really smoothly so that all the really cool fight scenes didnt lag but still coulda been a bit more depth. The range of guns is also limited, i know the main focus of the game is on hand to hand combat but basically you've got 2 types of pistol, mp5k, m4, shotgun, double barrelled shot gun, grenade launcher and then a couple of throwable items - so what's that, 7 guns? Not very many in my opinion!! Obviously all can be held in pairs and neo can do some cool running up wall double jumps, cap a couple of swat guys, throw his weapons away jump a third guy steal his gun and shoot him in the back of the head throw the corpse into a group of swat guys and then do a 360 degree clear out of guys around him... but a few more guns would be nice!

The ending is amusing at best after the fight with agent smith, and a brief message from the creators of the game *highly amusing by the way!!* a rather "hollywood" ending is tacked on which is a bit naff.

Finally it wont take you long to complete. Especially on easy mode the game is extremely easy and once you complete it on easy you get cheats to make the other difficulty levels easier. Dont get me wrong there is still lots to keep you occupied its not like you'll have ocmpleted it in a day or anything but maybe after a week of solid play you will have.

Summing up! - Brilliant game suitable for anyone and everyone, lots of fun to play and the drawbacks are only a little downer on this overall wicked game.

Well Worth the money! excellent Graphics!
After purchasing the game, and buying a new pc! i was very much looking forward to playing Matrix. I wasn't dissapointed at all, the graphics are sublime, and the gameplay is soo easy to use, ignore ppl who say this game isnt for the pc, i think its easy on the pc. ok ok it is abit of button bashing, but hey! it looks good, and feels like your part of the film!, The cut scenes are a nice touch on playing the game.

Overall its a fun game for any Matrix fan, even if your not this is a action-packed game.

Only problem is it only took my around 3 days to complete. But i was hooked on it! soo.... i cant complain.

Hope you buy the game, make sure you have a decent enough pc to play it with.

ENJOY!

What a Payne!!!
This could have been so good...

After playing and thouroughly enjoying the "first-person perspective" Max Payne and Max Payne 2, both of which had "bullet-time" game-play action off to a tee, I think it only fair to expect any "new" games based on the Matrix films to improve on what has gone before in these and other earlier Matrix games,(though in truth, the Max Payne games were acually based on a graphic demo, which was loosely based on the Lobby scene).

Sadly, thanks in part to the awkward "hit every button in a frantic manner and see what happens" kind of game control, plus poor camera angles which swing wildly into awkward directions at the wrong moment, this game is a very poor offering by comparison. Take away the cut-scene video out-takes from the film and you are left with a rather simplistic "third person perspective" beat-em-up, similar to Mortal Combat. Where this really falls down though is with the repetition. Whereas in the Max Payne games, the game-play is centred around ingenious puzzle-solving, necessitating detailed exploration of a beautifully detailed and graphically realised virtual environment, as well as some blistering battles using a whole variety of weapons, in this game the game-play, though similar in some respects, seems to involve an awful lot of dieing and going right back to the start of the level again and again and again. And again, and again................. DOH!!!!!!!!!
I HATE stuff like this. Why do game developers do it? Why do they think people devote huge, entire websites to cheats and hack files to get round these unbelievably irritating pieces of game-code? Will they never learn???

I didn't even complete level one before frustration and, quite frankly, boredom, set in and I quit the game, never to return. Considering what a huge fan of the film I am, this is massive dissapointment.

If you can handle mindless repetition being the major part of your gaming experience, then this game may be of interest to you. Otherwise, avoid it!!!

By the way, the two stars I've awarded here are for the film cut-scenes!!!