The Matrix: Path of Neo

Is This Really the Path of Neo?

By Michael Kleine, published Nov 30, 2006
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Rating: 3.3 of 5
As far as the movie to game thing goes, you actually do get to do almost everything you see in all three movies. Everything except for the infamous freeway chase. You do get to dodge bullets on the rooftop, do the lobby scene, fight agents after they bust open a door, burley brawl, fight agent smith one on one, the famous "château" scene, the training sequence against Morpheus, and MORE! There isn't really any additional footage like there was in "Enter The Matrix" but there are some extra pre-rendered movies, no "new: live footage. Compared to "Enter The Matrix," the gameplay is slightly similar but about 16x better. The fights actually look good this time and there is very little glitching. It also uses Havok physics so you can send someone flying in the air and every body part will bend accordingly, pretty cool (especially during the burly brawl.) Everything, and I mean, everything is destructible. Even a slight roll into the wall will make it shatter. This is overdone but very cool and true to the Matrix series. The other cool thing about this is that it actually tells you "way" more about the entire Matrix series, because you end up playing the scenes you missed in the movie. When Neo closes his eyes and then gets pounded with training and says, "I know kung fu," followed by a scene of him training for hours, you get to do what he did during that training and it is pretty interesting and well thought out. Other things such as when Morpheus dives out of the bathroom wall to save you, you get to see what happens after that.

I was surprised, at first, it was very tricky. The controls take a little getting used to. (Running across a wall while shooting at an enemy in slow motion takes a combination of 4+ buttons!) The shoulder buttons are used to shoot and you have to aim first and then you can shoot. The other two are used to open doors and enter "focus" mode, also known as bullet time.

Publisher: Atari
Developer: Shiny
Genre: Action
ESRB: M (Mature)
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Credit: Gamespot

Copyright: Gamespot

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