You have to give The Wachowskis credit - the game was an ambitious project and I can't think of anything else like it in terms of movie tie-ins. It's a shame it was ruined by being rushed. Never bothered me as a kid though. I thought it was awesome.
It was too ambitious, I bought it full price and finished it BEFORE watching the movie because it was said that you would get extra pieces of the story... The result after playing the game and watching the movie? Double disappointment.
Back in the 90s, the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was a similar tie-in project, even a bit more ambitious (you had the game, the book, a comic book, an action figure line and even a soundtrack, IIRC). BTW, it would be interesting to see Gggman reviewing this game on PC. Loved it as a 12 year old.
@@williebrown2210 ...you realize that matrix awakens was just a tech demo for unreal engine 5 released 3 years ago and no one is working on a full game, right?
i would challenge friends to the melee multiplayer fights and would kick ass because i would never reveal how to counter and constantly just counter their attacks. i was a terrible friend
@@vasiljambazov Because the devs were friends with the producers at the time, so they probably bounced their ideas for **The Matrix** at them, and the devs thought it waa great so they took some of them.
Loved the Matrix and even a lot of Reloaded back in the day, and spent quite a few hours with Enter the Matrix. I think it was a weird idea to follow two new boring characters, and the action wasn't as smooth as Max Payne, but I remember enjoying most of the (non-sewer/factory) levels. The hidden 2-player fighting game was kind of fun for a small while too. It wasn't a great game, but was one of the better licensed games that I remember, they clearly were TRYING for something new and faithful to the movies, at least.
What you mean by "The hidden 2-player fighting game" are you referring multiplayer. I know that is for consoles only. If you played that for PC please let me know how to unlock it.
I remember watching a documentary or something on the whole sunglasses thing a long time ago (on TV still wow). If I recall correctly the sunglasses thing came from the prime source material "Ghost in the Shell" film where the a lot of character's were given sunglasses because it was simpler and easier to draw frame by frame instead of eyes which would require more time and effort. So its actually a production gimmick that became a "cool" aesthetic associated with the dystopian future theme that was carried over for "The Matrix" and others like "Deus Ex".
I would play through this game just to get to the vampire level. That one area was I thought where this game's fighting mechanics truly shined as they would actually survive long enough for the fights to feel fun. I wished I could have an ultra hard mode where I could just fight those guys even longer.
Amen to this. The game mechanics, at least in H2H, was actually pretty incredible, I've never found anything like it outside of an actual fighting game. I wasted so much time against the immortal enemies, because it became so intensely satisfying to gather 3-5 of them and fight forever.
I remember reading somewhere that another reason action hero's sometimes wears sunglasses is so that you don't see the Actor blink or flinch every time they shoot a prop gun. I think it was the director for the Underworld series who said it though so take that worth a grain of salt.
I used to play this a lot as a teen. I have a feeling this game isn't as good as I remember. But I loved the melee combat. The Matrix: Three Stooges. They're just wearing sunglasses.
How has no one talked about the super cool “hacking” mechanic? It was a really unique way to put cheat codes into the game. Unlocking the katana was so cool!
One thing I remember fondly about this game was the way you activated cheats. IIRC it was a full on "hacking" minigame accessed from the main menu that, while not actually particularly complicated, still felt like you were actually doing something because you were following breadcrumbs and using logic to know what commands to use next.
Well a modern game would be nice. But hopefully it would instead be based on the original subject matter. The new film was more unnecessary than reloaded and revolutions combined.
Ah, Path of Neo... The game that lets you experience alternate versions of every scene involving Neo. Looks pretty nice, decent controls, decent voice acting in places... but the fact that you cannot properly recreate the scenes from the movies and the shark jump boss fight at the end make it absolutely disappointing, in my opinion.
Aaron Morris Many of the scenes were still recreated, like the subway fight with Agent Smith and all that. Last time I played it, it was one of the most enjoyable experiences I had in a long time. The PS2 version really makes a difference.
The early 2000s were very interesting times for video games and media in general. There's no way that, in today's world, you could make a movie tie-in game that was almost necessary to understand the entirety of a film or trilogy. It's almost like the Wachowskis had this insight into the (relatively new, at least when it came to 3D graphics and "realism") medium of video games, it didn't go over particularly well, and now anyone who even thinks about tying movies and games together in this fashion is sneered at by others in the movie-making business. They've forced the medium to take a step back without even thinking of the possibilities. Now all we get are boring "movie-like" games such as God of War that just wish they could be movies.
And The Last of Us, and pretty much every Sony exclusive. They're all just movies. It's why I still play my PS2, when games were still games and they didn't try so damn hard to be realistic and serious about every single detail.
First of all we wouldn't have the games we have today without the early 00s era.. Many of those franchises are still going.. And second the only reason we don't still see these type of games is production has gotten out of hand and since it takes 4-8 years to make a AAA game there is no way you plan it along with a movie unless it's the avatar franchise.. Also licensing of music etc has become such a bitch that it's not worth it for the developers, at some point the licnence deal run out and they have to delist the game
TBH Matrix mod(s) for Max Payne were better. Nothing beats activating hour-long bullet time and cleaning garage level, that was my way to relax almost two decades ago... Still not as cluncky and buggy like Earthworm Jim 3D game.
Oh man the nostalgia, back when being cool meant what's nowadays being edgy. BTW, am I the only one who back then and even now thinks Niobe's haircut is just stupid?
what? That game was garbage trash when it came out. It was unfinished, rashed and buggy. Because unlike many, I was a gamer at that time and I remember when it released.
Agreed so much man. I hate how the word "edgy" gets thrown around these days, usually by people who know sweet fuck all about what it actually means. Before edgy, the word 'grimdark' was used in a similar fashion and that was just as annoying.
Interestingly, the kiss between Smith and Bellucci is weird because that's not Smith. She refused to do it (her loss) so they used a wax dummy as a stand in.
Shiny was in its death throes in the 2000s. Before EtM they made Messiah and Sacrifice, neither of which sold big numbers and are considered cult hits today. Several key team members like Doug TenNapel, Nick Bruty, and Bob Stevenson left Shiny to pursue new projects like Neverhood (TenNapel,) and Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Bruty & Stevenson.) Their publisher Interplay was going bankrupt and sold them to the incompetent morons at Infrogrames/Atari in 2002. At the time of the sale EtM was Shiny's only project in the pipeline as Doug Perry had instituted a 'No Sequels' policy, leading Interplay to hand MDK off to Bioware. EtM was considered Shiny's last 'hit' despite how sloppy it was while Path of Neo failed to sell (likely because people were still salty over Matrix Revolutions.) Atari sold Shiny off to Foundation 9 in 2006 and Foundation 9 immediately merged what was left of Shiny with The Collective and form Double Helix Games. Doug Perry resigned by the time of the sale, meaning anybody worth a shit from Shiny's glory days was gone.
I know I'm not alone when I say that there needs to be a new matrix game. I see it almost like a mix between Uncharted, Arkham City, and Devil May Cry with some of the mechanics from this game carried over and improved.
Especially since games are so respected as a medium nowadays that tie-ins are no longer necessary. I think Rocksteady Games had a large part to play in that with their excellent work on the Arkham games. Additionally, The Matrix property is owned by Warner Brothers, the same publishers behind the Arkham games. WB Games is a powerhouse publisher, so another Matrix game should be feasible if they find the right developers for the job.
I always felt that if they'd had 6 more months to work on the game it would have been legendary... As it is it's a neat little tie-in to go along with the movie and a few hours of awesome fun before it becomes frustrating fighting the bugs and glitches.
I ADORED and played the hell out of this game as a kid! It was buggy as hell, completely rushed and incomplete, Niobe and Ghost are boring-ass characters, but nevertheless a great tie-in! I loved both The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded (always kinda disliked The Matrix Revolutions...) and this game really felt like both of those movies, all while expanding the lore. Ghost and Trinity didn't need to be siblings and only Niobe's story is sort of canon (judging by scenes from Reloaded and her mentioning the Oracle in Revolutions), the sewers were friggin tedious, but other than that this game was alot of fun!
I remember this to be cool-looking, meaty and satisfying combat trapped in a bad game. Your review is pretty much spot-on. Also - if I remember correctly - if you set graphics to low the car wheels will be square-shaped. I dunno why, but it always cracked me up.
I'm surprised you haven't done Codename Eagle, the game that basically created battlefield. Could we see you doing a review of it sometime? It was one of my childhood favourites!
We really need a VR game for The Matrix, you play as one of the agents where you meet Morpheus in that iconic scene. Choosing the red pill teleports to that karate room where you can tackle Morpheus by learning counter-attacks, dodges and disarms. I imagine you getting freedom of how you deal with your enemy and what parts to attack.
Completely agree. Although I love the first movie I think the writing and style of some of the short movies are actually better than even The Matrix. The Second Renaissance specially is a bit ahead of its time as well, since it was bringing into mainstream some really well thought sequences regarding how and why AI could “rebel” against humanity.
OH, SHIT, GGGMAN IS BACK. I love your reviews, dude. You're the only reviewer on the internet that I trust and I know is legit with me and not trying to sound smart or sell me something. Kudos to you.
Gotta say I thought the vampire levels were so cool back then (haven't played in like at least 12 or so years?) just something about stabbing a stake into an enemy after mopping the floor with them was so satisfying. Certainly a game with its bad parts overblown, I mean I remember it being glitchy even as a youngster but so many reviewers just drag on about the ways it hasn't aged well, especially the graphics. Never understood why people say it's so ugly, jank animations aside, I mean it's from 2003 people with the PS2 in mind :P
There were games back then that looked way prettier and sharper. The game was fun back then (then again I was about 12 or 13 when this came out) but thats about it.
@@peppermillers8361 well for one, echoes is new and deserves the attention. Secondly, it goes above and beyond anything expected from the goldsrc engine and presents itself with a unique atmospheric take on the black Mesa incident all while being made by one guy.
I used to play this game on the original Xbox I really enjoyed it at the time,I used to like to trap agents in tight rooms & throw grenades into the room it would actually kill’em, I’m enjoying your content bringing back some great memories 👍
Btw, I've never seen those movie clips shown in the movie. Were they specifically made just for this game series? 'Cos those scenes look way too polished to be deleted from actual movies.
@@guidorussoheck2100 It's too late. I am going to start it tomorrow. All though from what I played it does feel stillted. Enter the Matrix does seem like more of my kind of game though.
Enter the matrix is part of the story to be hones, the film scenes exclusively for that game. The Path of neo is just the whole trilogy rushed in one game, not bad tho.
@@guidorussoheck2100 But there's this Matrix compilation that includes all the scenes from Enter the Matrix. Yeah it's easy to tell it's rushed. And some sequences are bizarre like the beginning scene in the building. Like he actually goes up the building PoN.
Late to the party: regarding the sun glasses, I remember that it was explained that during the first movie the actors were using guns that were firing blanks and that a natural human response was to blink/close the eyes at every shot of the game so they introduced the sun glasses to mask that.
I remember whenever I was a child playing this game count with ours is Gamers so addicting backgrounds little kid cuz I absolutely love the movies and this just filled my dreams
I liked the game. I just wish it hadn't been so obviously rushed to hit retail shelves like it did. It definitely could've used some more polish. Even Path of Neo was pretty janky too from what I remember.
To me this game sucks. Its ugly. Especially port for PS2. Even textures look like not finished. Best Matrix type games we have its mods Kung-Fu for Max Payne 1 and Elements of Style for Max Payne 2. Greetings for Poland. This is my first coment on your channel so... I enjoy your videos and many THX for introduce me to the Brutal Doom mods. Hyped 4 Doom Eternall as Hell!!!
One thing that I found awesome in this game was the hacking mini game. It was the best to date, because it had actual command lines in a DOS-like interface. You could even unlock cheats for the main game in that mode.
It's nice to see a balanced review of this game. A lot of people usually look at it and are like, "Durrr, dis game suxxors" without spending time with it. It's not all that good, but like it was mentioned in the video, it's not anywhere near as bad as it's usually made out to be. It was pretty impressive when it came out, too. Shame it was rushed to launch nearly simultaneously with the second film. Matrix hype at the time was real, though, probably for the worse in the case of this game, unfortunately.
Thing about this game is it still holds up incredibly well. 720p and really smooth gameplay that's still fun and animations that are exciting. I am still playing on my og Xbox and still have a blast.
I remember when I first got my PS2 back in the day, this was one of the games i was most looking forward to playing on it. I generally had a good time with it; enough to come back and replay it as the other character. I was pleasantly surprised to see they made the effort to show the same story from a different angle with occasional alternate objectives and though the characters were pretty damn bland, you did get a little affinity with both of them and their individual struggles - especially Ghost. On the whole, it definitely deserves more polish and more love for what it is. Enter The Matrix was one of the first of those that actually made the effort to tell its own story and not just regurgitate the story in the movie.
One of my biggest guilty pleasures. I feel like with proper time and budget, this could have legit been an amazing game, and one of the best movie tie-in games ever made.
I really love your channel. It's awesome seeing you review games that are so damn old. So much nostalgia! Would love to see a review of Monkey Island :)
Every time my lady and I watch Reloaded, I remind her that you're driving the car that catches Morpheus after he falls off the truck in this game. That's a movie tie-in done right!
I remember having that as a big box with three CDs. The post office mission ran okay (the child's definition of "okay", probably), but I vividly recall the car missions running at a literal frame per second and being basically impossible to go through like that.
When I was like 11/12 I used to rent this game allll the time. The Matrix was huge for kids my age, for at least a couple of years (I'm 31 now so this era really picked up steam in the early 2000s, in between the original and the 2 sequels). The whole bullet time thing and the shootout scene that takes place in the lobby with all the security was the holy grail of action parts that would affect how we played nerf gun wars or water gun fights, and changed how we swam in the pools as well, doing matrix moves underwater lol. All I know is that as a 12-13 year old this game was the closest you could get to the actual Matrix feel, and it was as close as we got to what we would imagine a great Matrix game to be with the technology of the time. We didn't really notice the finer details you notice when older with a critical eye, it was all just badass
IIRC the Gamecube version (and perhaps others) had a debug kill screen left in that you can trigger by using gameshark codes to turn all weapons into bullet hoses, the shotguns especially could instantiate enough projectiles and effects to trigger the kill screen with a developer note regarding memory management.
I loved this game. I was obsessed with the Matrix and finished it with Ghost and Niobe back to back when it first came out. It was also a few years into the almost two decade dry spell of fighting games on the PC so I really appreciated the fighting mechanics.
I remember first seeing this thing and comparing it to the anime styled Oni and even Max Payne. Sadly while I still have fond memories of those two I've all but forgotten Enter the matrix (until now).
A great review! Finally someone who's actually giving this game a fair chance. Oh, and just because someone's bound to mention it: the square tires on PC are not the game's fault. You simply forgot to go to the options and set the settings to "high".
This game was flippin' awesome. It had a kick-ass hand-to-hand combat system with awesome moves, combined with a simple yet fun gunfighting system. Overall just a really fun game. I wonder why more games did not do it like this, mixing good gunslinging action with great hand-to-hand combat. You either get one or the other, but rarely both together.
I loved this game back when I was a little 12 yr old kid. Me and my friend used to input the cheat codes on the matrix computer thing. Had a ton of fun with it overall.
No word about the hacking mini-game? Those are actually my fondest memories of EtM. But yeah, I agree that this game could have been great if only they weren't pressed to release it simultaneously with the movie.
I used to love this game and would play it for hours with cheat codes for all weapons, unlimited ammo, and unlimited focus. Such a blast! The grenade launcher was OP
You missed a great opportunity with that end blurb. "Taking the red pill isn't the worst thing you could do, but expect some side effects along the way." Great video as always though.
Good review. I love the fact that the main menu lets you hack into the matrix to place weapon drops at certain levels among other things. It's those little touches that games should have more often. Like breaking free of your chair during the menu of COD black ops 1 to go and play Zork on a nearby terminal.
You have to give The Wachowskis credit - the game was an ambitious project and I can't think of anything else like it in terms of movie tie-ins. It's a shame it was ruined by being rushed. Never bothered me as a kid though. I thought it was awesome.
It was too ambitious, I bought it full price and finished it BEFORE watching the movie because it was said that you would get extra pieces of the story...
The result after playing the game and watching the movie? Double disappointment.
It needed about another 6 months of development lol
Back in the 90s, the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was a similar tie-in project, even a bit more ambitious (you had the game, the book, a comic book, an action figure line and even a soundtrack, IIRC).
BTW, it would be interesting to see Gggman reviewing this game on PC. Loved it as a 12 year old.
Even their sex changes look rushed.
_The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay_ set out to achieve the same thing. It was actually a decent game.
This is actually a perfect game.
The glitches/bugs are just imperfections in the Matrix.
That's the best way to look at it to be honest. Makes the game more enjoyable in some ways.
Still my favorite game, I just wish that they had the time to finish it. Hopefully Matrix Awakens can be the game the developers of EtM envisioned.
@@williebrown2210 ...you realize that matrix awakens was just a tech demo for unreal engine 5 released 3 years ago and no one is working on a full game, right?
As a kid , the melee combat was amazing
It's still pretty cool.
It still is the game needs backwards compatibility
i would challenge friends to the melee multiplayer fights and would kick ass because i would never reveal how to counter and constantly just counter their attacks. i was a terrible friend
Loved doing the slo mo kick of the wall
@@quinnmarchese6313 Can you tell me how I can unlock Multiplayer on PC?
I loved this game as a kid, I finished it at least 5 times.
GGG: "What's the deal with the sunglasses!?"
"My vision is augmented"
You know the developers of Deus Ex were actually inspired by the makers of The Matrix while both the game and the movie were still in development?
Your eyes are gonna burn alright.
It's late but I couldn't resist.
My vision isn't, but I don't care.
@@Orange_Swirl how can Deus Ex developers be inspired of Matrix if both were in development? I don't get it
@@vasiljambazov Because the devs were friends with the producers at the time, so they probably bounced their ideas for **The Matrix** at them, and the devs thought it waa great so they took some of them.
they should make a modern matrix game because imagine what they could accomplish now
PlatinumGames could do a ton with the gameplay, though the story could end up goofy.
This is why im rooting for that morpheus prequel that is supposedly in the works - just think of what could become of a vg tie in!
It's called "Saints Row IV".
@@KillerZom that's completely different from what I had in mind though I meant something more like this game
Like that vin diesel car jumping game but with guns
Loved the Matrix and even a lot of Reloaded back in the day, and spent quite a few hours with Enter the Matrix. I think it was a weird idea to follow two new boring characters, and the action wasn't as smooth as Max Payne, but I remember enjoying most of the (non-sewer/factory) levels. The hidden 2-player fighting game was kind of fun for a small while too. It wasn't a great game, but was one of the better licensed games that I remember, they clearly were TRYING for something new and faithful to the movies, at least.
Path of neo is still a better game
Indigo Gaming and then Path of Neo came out and everyone forgot about this game
What you mean by "The hidden 2-player fighting game" are you referring multiplayer. I know that is for consoles only. If you played that for PC please let me know how to unlock it.
Just watched your cyberpunk video it was great. You know anything about Sophia Stewart?
This is a great channel
You'll also love NakeyJakey too then, I reckon ;)
"What's with the sunglasses?"
Their vision is augmented.
*The most red pilled game*
I think that distinction goes to moonman doom
Deus Ex.
Salokin BASED
Red Pill?
Morpheus
drinking a forty
In a death basket
I remember watching a documentary or something on the whole sunglasses thing a long time ago (on TV still wow). If I recall correctly the sunglasses thing came from the prime source material "Ghost in the Shell" film where the a lot of character's were given sunglasses because it was simpler and easier to draw frame by frame instead of eyes which would require more time and effort. So its actually a production gimmick that became a "cool" aesthetic associated with the dystopian future theme that was carried over for "The Matrix" and others like "Deus Ex".
I would play through this game just to get to the vampire level. That one area was I thought where this game's fighting mechanics truly shined as they would actually survive long enough for the fights to feel fun. I wished I could have an ultra hard mode where I could just fight those guys even longer.
I would load the game after reaching the end just to fight Vlad, Cujo and all their minions over and over again.
Amen to this. The game mechanics, at least in H2H, was actually pretty incredible, I've never found anything like it outside of an actual fighting game. I wasted so much time against the immortal enemies, because it became so intensely satisfying to gather 3-5 of them and fight forever.
tl;dr:
* WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE SUNGLASSES?!? *
one and only cool thing that remain in sequels from first movie
Pedro Vanderlei directors said that it is a metaphor for eyepatches, but we all know its either because of terminator or ghost in the shell
Why do they call them sunglasses? There is no sun in the Matrix, and they aren't glasses, they should call them moonshades.
Cause makes the look COOL?
There's no other reason
I remember reading somewhere that another reason action hero's sometimes wears sunglasses is so that you don't see the Actor blink or flinch every time they shoot a prop gun. I think it was the director for the Underworld series who said it though so take that worth a grain of salt.
I used to play this a lot as a teen. I have a feeling this game isn't as good as I remember. But I loved the melee combat.
The Matrix: Three Stooges. They're just wearing sunglasses.
its still good and well preserved. i play the multiplayer with my friends when they come home.
Do urban chaos riot response next please if possible good review btw
nanana batman URBAN CHAOS!
NICK MASON MISTER T FUCKING ZERO
Use the Stun Gun to roast enemies. Non lethal?
Not in this task force
YES, WE NEED THIS
Man that game is better than it ever had any right to be
Gman: WHATS UP WITH THE SUNGLASSES?!?
also Gman: wears sunglasses
Hey can you freedom fighters man that game was awesome.
Dude I've been asking Sonny Jim to do that game for three years now.
Hell yeah, this game needs some recognition.
It's true, the end was kinda bad if I remember correctly
valentin acosta Yeah but still it was pretty cool and some of it's features were ahead of its time.
@@thetankhunter100 Yeah, don't denying that. It was a blast to play
How has no one talked about the super cool “hacking” mechanic? It was a really unique way to put cheat codes into the game. Unlocking the katana was so cool!
One thing I remember fondly about this game was the way you activated cheats.
IIRC it was a full on "hacking" minigame accessed from the main menu that, while not actually particularly complicated, still felt like you were actually doing something because you were following breadcrumbs and using logic to know what commands to use next.
I like it when this guy say shhiitt
Eric De Chef Man Me too, sonny Jim. Shiyet! X3
biiiiiitch
SHEEEEEIT!
Imagine getting a new Matrix game of this quality connecting to the 4th movie
almost!
Well a modern game would be nice. But hopefully it would instead be based on the original subject matter. The new film was more unnecessary than reloaded and revolutions combined.
This aged well, matrix 4 was a movie nobody asked for and nobody wanted either,
isn't that Matrix Online？
Yes but preferably not connecting to the 4th movie
Path of Neo too...?
Yeah. That's what the Matrix is all about. The Path of Neo.
Hope so
PS2 version's the best though, since it's the original version that was ported to PC and Xbox. I suggest playing it on PCSX2 if you have a good PC.
Ah, Path of Neo... The game that lets you experience alternate versions of every scene involving Neo. Looks pretty nice, decent controls, decent voice acting in places... but the fact that you cannot properly recreate the scenes from the movies and the shark jump boss fight at the end make it absolutely disappointing, in my opinion.
Aaron Morris Many of the scenes were still recreated, like the subway fight with Agent Smith and all that. Last time I played it, it was one of the most enjoyable experiences I had in a long time. The PS2 version really makes a difference.
The early 2000s were very interesting times for video games and media in general. There's no way that, in today's world, you could make a movie tie-in game that was almost necessary to understand the entirety of a film or trilogy. It's almost like the Wachowskis had this insight into the (relatively new, at least when it came to 3D graphics and "realism") medium of video games, it didn't go over particularly well, and now anyone who even thinks about tying movies and games together in this fashion is sneered at by others in the movie-making business. They've forced the medium to take a step back without even thinking of the possibilities.
Now all we get are boring "movie-like" games such as God of War that just wish they could be movies.
And The Last of Us, and pretty much every Sony exclusive. They're all just movies.
It's why I still play my PS2, when games were still games and they didn't try so damn hard to be realistic and serious about every single detail.
First of all we wouldn't have the games we have today without the early 00s era.. Many of those franchises are still going.. And second the only reason we don't still see these type of games is production has gotten out of hand and since it takes 4-8 years to make a AAA game there is no way you plan it along with a movie unless it's the avatar franchise.. Also licensing of music etc has become such a bitch that it's not worth it for the developers, at some point the licnence deal run out and they have to delist the game
TBH Matrix mod(s) for Max Payne were better.
Nothing beats activating hour-long bullet time and cleaning garage level, that was my way to relax almost two decades ago...
Still not as cluncky and buggy like Earthworm Jim 3D game.
The Style mods are pretty incredible...
Oh man the nostalgia, back when being cool meant what's nowadays being edgy.
BTW, am I the only one who back then and even now thinks Niobe's haircut is just stupid?
what? That game was garbage trash when it came out. It was unfinished, rashed and buggy. Because unlike many, I was a gamer at that time and I remember when it released.
@@robosergTV youre so cool.
Agreed so much man. I hate how the word "edgy" gets thrown around these days, usually by people who know sweet fuck all about what it actually means. Before edgy, the word 'grimdark' was used in a similar fashion and that was just as annoying.
That shit was pretentious even back then and far from being cool.
RobosergTV it was one of the best games out that year. Get fucked.
Interestingly, the kiss between Smith and Bellucci is weird because that's not Smith. She refused to do it (her loss) so they used a wax dummy as a stand in.
I remember playing this game and The Matrix The Path Of the one growing up!
Such good titles
Shiny was in its death throes in the 2000s. Before EtM they made Messiah and Sacrifice, neither of which sold big numbers and are considered cult hits today. Several key team members like Doug TenNapel, Nick Bruty, and Bob Stevenson left Shiny to pursue new projects like Neverhood (TenNapel,) and Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Bruty & Stevenson.) Their publisher Interplay was going bankrupt and sold them to the incompetent morons at Infrogrames/Atari in 2002. At the time of the sale EtM was Shiny's only project in the pipeline as Doug Perry had instituted a 'No Sequels' policy, leading Interplay to hand MDK off to Bioware. EtM was considered Shiny's last 'hit' despite how sloppy it was while Path of Neo failed to sell (likely because people were still salty over Matrix Revolutions.) Atari sold Shiny off to Foundation 9 in 2006 and Foundation 9 immediately merged what was left of Shiny with The Collective and form Double Helix Games. Doug Perry resigned by the time of the sale, meaning anybody worth a shit from Shiny's glory days was gone.
I know I'm not alone when I say that there needs to be a new matrix game. I see it almost like a mix between Uncharted, Arkham City, and Devil May Cry with some of the mechanics from this game carried over and improved.
Especially since games are so respected as a medium nowadays that tie-ins are no longer necessary. I think Rocksteady Games had a large part to play in that with their excellent work on the Arkham games. Additionally, The Matrix property is owned by Warner Brothers, the same publishers behind the Arkham games. WB Games is a powerhouse publisher, so another Matrix game should be feasible if they find the right developers for the job.
I always felt that if they'd had 6 more months to work on the game it would have been legendary... As it is it's a neat little tie-in to go along with the movie and a few hours of awesome fun before it becomes frustrating fighting the bugs and glitches.
I ADORED and played the hell out of this game as a kid!
It was buggy as hell, completely rushed and incomplete, Niobe and Ghost are boring-ass characters, but nevertheless a great tie-in! I loved both The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded (always kinda disliked The Matrix Revolutions...) and this game really felt like both of those movies, all while expanding the lore.
Ghost and Trinity didn't need to be siblings and only Niobe's story is sort of canon (judging by scenes from Reloaded and her mentioning the Oracle in Revolutions), the sewers were friggin tedious, but other than that this game was alot of fun!
I remember this to be cool-looking, meaty and satisfying combat trapped in a bad game. Your review is pretty much spot-on. Also - if I remember correctly - if you set graphics to low the car wheels will be square-shaped. I dunno why, but it always cracked me up.
I'm surprised you haven't done Codename Eagle, the game that basically created battlefield. Could we see you doing a review of it sometime? It was one of my childhood favourites!
We really need a VR game for The Matrix, you play as one of the agents where you meet Morpheus in that iconic scene. Choosing the red pill teleports to that karate room where you can tackle Morpheus by learning counter-attacks, dodges and disarms. I imagine you getting freedom of how you deal with your enemy and what parts to attack.
Animatrix is superior to the sequels man. Grbage? Theyre beautiful and mindblowing.
second renaissance is why I think we should treat sentient AI like fellow humans and not tools as soon as it’s created
Completely agree. Although I love the first movie I think the writing and style of some of the short movies are actually better than even The Matrix. The Second Renaissance specially is a bit ahead of its time as well, since it was bringing into mainstream some really well thought sequences regarding how and why AI could “rebel” against humanity.
One need not feel the same pain to have empathy
What's with the sunglasses?
- a guy with an avatar using sunglasses...
What´s wrong with Animatrix´s writing? I consider it as the best picture of the matrix universe
The writing on those shorts is better than either reloaded or revolutions. Sonny Jim is smoking crack.
You're entitled to your opinion. I bought it on DVD when it first came out and thought it was rubbish.
"Beyond" and "World Record" are the only good shorts
Animatrix is my favorite!
The Renaissance part I & II was class.
I loved the crap out of this game when I was a kid. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a PTSD flashback at 6:06.
A new GGGManLives Review? Well, I did take a red pill this morning.
It can't be overstated how cool the wall kick is.
OH, SHIT, GGGMAN IS BACK.
I love your reviews, dude. You're the only reviewer on the internet that I trust and I know is legit with me and not trying to sound smart or sell me something. Kudos to you.
a gggmanlives review on my birthday? now I feel like a true sonny jim
Gotta say I thought the vampire levels were so cool back then (haven't played in like at least 12 or so years?) just something about stabbing a stake into an enemy after mopping the floor with them was so satisfying. Certainly a game with its bad parts overblown, I mean I remember it being glitchy even as a youngster but so many reviewers just drag on about the ways it hasn't aged well, especially the graphics. Never understood why people say it's so ugly, jank animations aside, I mean it's from 2003 people with the PS2 in mind :P
There were games back then that looked way prettier and sharper. The game was fun back then (then again I was about 12 or 13 when this came out) but thats about it.
This game has the most hours of my young life. Such a huge impact thanks for making this
You should do a mod review of half life echoes. Easily one of the best half life mods of all time.
I second this
There are tons of HL1 and 2 mods worth reviewing.
@@peppermillers8361 well for one, echoes is new and deserves the attention. Secondly, it goes above and beyond anything expected from the goldsrc engine and presents itself with a unique atmospheric take on the black Mesa incident all while being made by one guy.
I'm not saying it doesn't deserve attention, but from what i've seen a LOT of people gave it attention. But eh, Triple G can do a review of it.
One of the reasons i LOVE this channel is that it reviews all of my favorite 90s and naughties ;) games.
Nice game review man , definitely going to replay this game.
I used to play this game on the original Xbox I really enjoyed it at the time,I used to like to trap agents in tight rooms & throw grenades into the room it would actually kill’em, I’m enjoying your content bringing back some great memories 👍
Do a review of one of Shiny's best titles: Messiah.
I luff MDK...I listen to the soundtrack almost every day X3
Yeah MDK 1 and 2 were great....what does that have to do with Messiah?
Sh-shhh...Don't say another word.
Btw, I've never seen those movie clips shown in the movie. Were they specifically made just for this game series? 'Cos those scenes look way too polished to be deleted from actual movies.
This game actually looks kind of fun. I am planning on playing Path of Neo, eventually.
Dont waste your time with path of neo, feels outdated. Play enter the matrix instead.
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It's too late. I am going to start it tomorrow. All though from what I played it does feel stillted. Enter the Matrix does seem like more of my kind of game though.
Enter the matrix is part of the story to be hones, the film scenes exclusively for that game. The Path of neo is just the whole trilogy rushed in one game, not bad tho.
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But there's this Matrix compilation that includes all the scenes from Enter the Matrix. Yeah it's easy to tell it's rushed. And some sequences are bizarre like the beginning scene in the building. Like he actually goes up the building PoN.
whats PoN?
Late to the party: regarding the sun glasses, I remember that it was explained that during the first movie the actors were using guns that were firing blanks and that a natural human response was to blink/close the eyes at every shot of the game so they introduced the sun glasses to mask that.
Liked before I could watch :P
i remember playing this game as a kid and it was so damn fun
ive been looking for it for ages now
I remember whenever I was a child playing this game count with ours is Gamers so addicting backgrounds little kid cuz I absolutely love the movies and this just filled my dreams
I liked the game. I just wish it hadn't been so obviously rushed to hit retail shelves like it did. It definitely could've used some more polish. Even Path of Neo was pretty janky too from what I remember.
To me this game sucks. Its ugly. Especially port for PS2. Even textures look like not finished. Best Matrix type games we have its mods Kung-Fu for Max Payne 1 and Elements of Style for Max Payne 2. Greetings for Poland. This is my first coment on your channel so... I enjoy your videos and many THX for introduce me to the Brutal Doom mods. Hyped 4 Doom Eternall as Hell!!!
One word for this game: Atari
They rushed this game for cash the quick buck they could get and "Focus" the profit on Driver 3...Ohh the irony
I think F.e.a.r did a better job at been the matrix than this game did
It was something about this game during childhood that was so memorable I love the graphics setup and the mechanics so much til this day
One thing that I found awesome in this game was the hacking mini game. It was the best to date, because it had actual command lines in a DOS-like interface. You could even unlock cheats for the main game in that mode.
It's nice to see a balanced review of this game. A lot of people usually look at it and are like, "Durrr, dis game suxxors" without spending time with it. It's not all that good, but like it was mentioned in the video, it's not anywhere near as bad as it's usually made out to be. It was pretty impressive when it came out, too. Shame it was rushed to launch nearly simultaneously with the second film. Matrix hype at the time was real, though, probably for the worse in the case of this game, unfortunately.
Thing about this game is it still holds up incredibly well. 720p and really smooth gameplay that's still fun and animations that are exciting. I am still playing on my og Xbox and still have a blast.
I remember when I first got my PS2 back in the day, this was one of the games i was most looking forward to playing on it. I generally had a good time with it; enough to come back and replay it as the other character. I was pleasantly surprised to see they made the effort to show the same story from a different angle with occasional alternate objectives and though the characters were pretty damn bland, you did get a little affinity with both of them and their individual struggles - especially Ghost. On the whole, it definitely deserves more polish and more love for what it is. Enter The Matrix was one of the first of those that actually made the effort to tell its own story and not just regurgitate the story in the movie.
One of my biggest guilty pleasures. I feel like with proper time and budget, this could have legit been an amazing game, and one of the best movie tie-in games ever made.
The fight with Trinity is one of my favorite pieces of storytelling through gameplay. It was genuinely touching and really well written.
I really love your channel. It's awesome seeing you review games that are so damn old. So much nostalgia! Would love to see a review of Monkey Island :)
Every time my lady and I watch Reloaded, I remind her that you're driving the car that catches Morpheus after he falls off the truck in this game. That's a movie tie-in done right!
this whole game is considered cannon to the movies so
I remember having that as a big box with three CDs. The post office mission ran okay (the child's definition of "okay", probably), but I vividly recall the car missions running at a literal frame per second and being basically impossible to go through like that.
When I was like 11/12 I used to rent this game allll the time. The Matrix was huge for kids my age, for at least a couple of years (I'm 31 now so this era really picked up steam in the early 2000s, in between the original and the 2 sequels). The whole bullet time thing and the shootout scene that takes place in the lobby with all the security was the holy grail of action parts that would affect how we played nerf gun wars or water gun fights, and changed how we swam in the pools as well, doing matrix moves underwater lol. All I know is that as a 12-13 year old this game was the closest you could get to the actual Matrix feel, and it was as close as we got to what we would imagine a great Matrix game to be with the technology of the time. We didn't really notice the finer details you notice when older with a critical eye, it was all just badass
Just had a dream about hearing your voice, and now I'm here watching a new review of yours by sheer coincidence. Today is a good day.
IIRC the Gamecube version (and perhaps others) had a debug kill screen left in that you can trigger by using gameshark codes to turn all weapons into bullet hoses, the shotguns especially could instantiate enough projectiles and effects to trigger the kill screen with a developer note regarding memory management.
I really like this game when it was new! Great review man, thx ;)
i always enjoy ur clips
I say sonnyjim to myself whenever I see a new upload.
One of my favorite childhood games. Still love it.
I remember playing this on PS2 and as a fan of the Matrix lore I enjoyed it, glitches and all. I think this game deserves a remake tbh
I just love jumping over and over as Ghost. His jumping animation is hilarious!
I remember this game being amazing. I think I played through it 4 times while waiting for Max Payne 2 to come out.
The second renaissance should have been a theatrical movie , loved the animatrix
I loved this game. I was obsessed with the Matrix and finished it with Ghost and Niobe back to back when it first came out.
It was also a few years into the almost two decade dry spell of fighting games on the PC so I really appreciated the fighting mechanics.
Another top notch vid. Keep em comin 👍🏽
That rooftop stage tho....Still one of the most tense moments in gaming.
I remember first seeing this thing and comparing it to the anime styled Oni and even Max Payne. Sadly while I still have fond memories of those two I've all but forgotten Enter the matrix (until now).
A great review! Finally someone who's actually giving this game a fair chance. Oh, and just because someone's bound to mention it: the square tires on PC are not the game's fault. You simply forgot to go to the options and set the settings to "high".
This game was flippin' awesome. It had a kick-ass hand-to-hand combat system with awesome moves, combined with a simple yet fun gunfighting system. Overall just a really fun game. I wonder why more games did not do it like this, mixing good gunslinging action with great hand-to-hand combat. You either get one or the other, but rarely both together.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS, MR ANDERSON
I loved this game back when I was a little 12 yr old kid. Me and my friend used to input the cheat codes on the matrix computer thing. Had a ton of fun with it overall.
you are my faverouite Australian ever. god I loved this game as a kid.
No word about the hacking mini-game? Those are actually my fondest memories of EtM.
But yeah, I agree that this game could have been great if only they weren't pressed to release it simultaneously with the movie.
Here once again rewatching all your videos xD...This game is my guilty pleasure lol I love it
I used to love this game and would play it for hours with cheat codes for all weapons, unlimited ammo, and unlimited focus. Such a blast! The grenade launcher was OP
In regards to games wherein your actions happen alongside the main movies, Lord of the Rings the Third Age. Underrated RPG.
The Godfather videogame, too
I completely forgot I actually played this game. This was a nice throwback.
You missed a great opportunity with that end blurb. "Taking the red pill isn't the worst thing you could do, but expect some side effects along the way." Great video as always though.
Those driving sections look as though they were hit the hardest with the rush job!
I remember getting a glitch in the 1st car chase level where the cars would roll around hilariously.
Good review. I love the fact that the main menu lets you hack into the matrix to place weapon drops at certain levels among other things. It's those little touches that games should have more often. Like breaking free of your chair during the menu of COD black ops 1 to go and play Zork on a nearby terminal.
Sonny Jim uploaded finally.
I actually grew up with this and the path of neo games and I loved them both to death when I was still in elementary school before I got my 360