From: Atari Average Rating: Binding: CD-ROM ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD-ROM Label: Atari Model: 26498 Platform: Windows XP Release Date: November 08, 2005
Features:
Experience true in-game Matrix physics.
A full orchestral score playing in surround sound, developed to follow the action of the game.
Enhanced Bullet Time special effects from the films and allow gamers to dodge bullets, jump off walls and defy gravity and logic to recreate its most memorable scenes.
Product Description: The Matrix: Path Of Neo continues the story of The Matrix. You become Neo and try to follow the path of The One - your choices will decide the fate of humanity. They may win where Neo failed or find another way to solve the problem - the path is now theirs to follow.
Amazon.com Product Description:
The Matrix: Path of Neo will follow the story of the blockbuster motion picture trilogy The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and for the first time allow gamers to play as Neo and become "the One."
From the moment the game begins, how the situations play out, how they handle them, how they deal with the events, where they go, how people react to them -- it's all up to the gamer. They may win where Neo failed or find another way to solve the problem -- the path is now theirs to follow.
As Neo, the choices the player makes to resolve each scenario and the resulting consequences may have a different result than the original films. Alternative scenarios filled with new characters, content and storylines have all been written and planned by the Wachowski Brothers to expand the Matrix universe and overall gaming experience.
Once again blurring the lines between Hollywood and interactive entertainment, The Matrix: Path of Neo features the likenesses of all of the films' key actors -- including Keanu Reeves (Neo), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Carrie-Ann Moss (Trinity), Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith) and Jada Pinkett-Smith (Niobe).
WHAT A SHAME!!! This game will crash and ruin your computer no matter how many phony "updates" the morons at Atari put on their website! This game ran well for 8 minutes and that's it! It looked like a great game but my computer has more value than taking a risk and ruining my computer trying to get it working. BEWARE, back up your computer like I did before installing this game.
Graphics are not the best but gameplay is very good So the graphics are not great but, who said that is all in a game? I find this game pretty fun to play. Hand to hand combat is very fun as you can make many combo moves that looks just as cool as in the movies. Sound is good too. The reason this game takes so many space of hard drive must be because it has many edited cuts from the 3 movies of the matrix.
My only complain about this game are the controls, because the keyboard is needed to make many moves what is a little hard to manage.
I paid 20.00 for this game and i don't regret it. So, if you want to be the ONE, or at least feel like him, get this game.
Buggy-Buggy, Crash-Crash, Your PC go BOOM! Its always a bad sign to buy a game, take it home and find a card inside the package directing you a website containing two big patches for the game. Path of Neo is a cool concept that got the rush-rush-rush treatment in my opinion.
After applying the patches, the game got a little further along before it crashed and burned, taking my PC with it. Cool, the game comes with its own version of Agent Smith! The game would also freeze if I changed controller options, oh DEAR!!
This is a trend in PC gaming - releasing games that are not ready for prime time then patching up the code later. Unfortunately, the patches for Path of Neo don't seem to work. Oops.
The upside is that I did not pay full price for The Buggy Path of Neo, but paying anything for a broken game is too much. Buy it at your own risk..
If I were a person... that payed full price for a game I would have purchased this the day it came out, but with two young children at home I don't have alot of extra room in the budget for games. Luckily I found it a Target on clearance for $8, and I'm glad that I purchased it.
Could the game have been better? Yes. ANY game could be better. I think the problem most people had with this game is the HIGH and somewhat unrealistic expectations Matrix fans have for anything associated with the franchise. I personaly have enjoyed every moment I have spent playing this game. The game does start a little slow, but I think it is necessary to set up the story. Neo didn't start off with his "superpowers" right away in the movies, and the game is based on his story within the Matrix. The melee combat is just tremendous. Every move Neo used in the movies can be reproduced in the game. The sword fighting is impressive due to the moves that can be accomplished, and the sounds the swords make. They sound just like the scenes from Reloaded where Neo is fighting the Merovingian's "henchmen". The gunfighting can be frustrating, but like I alluded to earlier, no game is perfect. The game is difficult in spots, but that is part of what I want in a game.
If you are a fan the Matrix movies, and if you can see this game for what it IS not for what you WANT it to be this can be one of the best games you play this year. If you are not a fan of the movies, but you are looking for a great PC fighting game please consider this game.
My ratings-
Gameplay 5 Fun 5 Sound 5 Graphics 4 Difficulty 5
Please tweak this engine! This matrix gaming franchise could truly be the pinnacle of action gaming entertainment if it would get itself in gear and fine tune all of those nasty issues that mire the great gameplay. Fans will be delighted to see many restorations from important scenes, plus new scenarios not from the movies, but the game's abrubt jump to the finale from the middle of revolutions was a cruel blow!
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