Not sure if anyone cares anymore but, Another Matrix Game!!

[THEHOOLIGANJEDI]

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The Matix:Path of Neo.

[Elheru Aran]

So they're adding a bunch of extraneous crap, a few bits where Neo can wank out with a samurai sword, and shit?

And did anybody notice that bit where Neo's in the lobby... and there's a *row* of soliders right behind him... doing precisely fuck all?

Color me unimpressed.

Now, an Equilibrium game, done right... *that* would rock...

[THEHOOLIGANJEDI]

That's the spirit!! I was half expecting some negative comments.

Personally I am indifferent but curious. I thought ETM was a decent game. Haven't played Matrix:Online. (I'm Cheap)

I'm curious at best.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Now, an Equilibrium game, done right... *that* would rock...

They aleady have that. It's called Max Payne: Kung Fu Mod.

[Elheru Aran]

Now, an Equilibrium game, done right... *that* would rock...

They aleady have that. It's called Max Payne: Kung Fu Mod.

Not talkin' mods, brotha... I want a true honest-to-goodness game, where you, teh Badass Cleric (TM) may wreak havock upon the Sense Offenders and Rebels, through diligent use of the almighty Gun-Kata... Several play options-- be Preston and re-enact the story, with the choice of whether to eradicate the rebels or take up their cause, or be a generic Cleric, train and progress through the ranks, and in order to win, you have to execute Preston in one-on-one fighting... or something

What can I say, Matrix pretty much sucked and that more or less ruined the franchise for me. Never played 'Enter the Matrix', but I've pretty much uniformly heard it sucked.

To be sure, a FPS based upon the movies *could* be good. As long as they cut out the bullshit philosophy, boring monologues, and keep the extraneous side quests to a minimum as well as the bullet-time, it might work... but this doesn't look like it'll turn out that way. I'm almost regretful...

[SPOOFE]

and there's a *row* of soliders right behind him... doing precisely fuck all?

Yeah, still images DO tend to be rather devoid of action. Who'da thunk it?

[Drooling Iguana]

Not talkin' mods, brotha... I want a true honest-to-goodness game, where you, teh Badass Cleric (TM) may wreak havock upon the Sense Offenders and Rebels, through diligent use of the almighty Gun-Kata... Several play options-- be Preston and re-enact the story, with the choice of whether to eradicate the rebels or take up their cause, or be a generic Cleric, train and progress through the ranks, and in order to win, you have to execute Preston in one-on-one fighting... or something :P

What can I say, Matrix pretty much sucked and that more or less ruined the franchise for me. Never played 'Enter the Matrix', but I've pretty much uniformly heard it sucked.

To be sure, a FPS based upon the movies *could* be good. As long as they cut out the bullshit philosophy, boring monologues, and keep the extraneous side quests to a minimum as well as the bullet-time, it might work... but this doesn't look like it'll turn out that way. I'm almost regretful...

I've been thinking about how an Equilibrium video game would work for a while. What I came up with was a third-person action game set a few years after the events of the movie. The Resistance was able to make some significant strides after Father was "killed" and the Prozium factories destroyed, but the Tetragrammaton hasn't completely fallen, and there are those working to rebuild it. You play the role of one of the few remaining Clerics, and begin the game trying to re-take some ground from the Sense-Offenders, but are soon given the choice of joining the Resistance or remaining a Grammaton Cleric. The Cleric path would end with a boss-battle against Preston. I'm not sure who would be the end boss in the Resistance path.

The game's hook would be its "emotion system." Basically you'd have what looks like a polygraph display in the corner of the screen that indicates your current emotional state, which will be affected by normal in-game events as well as certain plot points. Basically, the more emotional you get, the less effective your Gun-Katas become. If you're at a low emotional level, the game will practically play itself, with you only having to worry about getting your character to the right general area and the game taking care of the more precise positioning and aiming that will let you clear a room of heavily armed enemies without getting hit yourself. At higher emotional states you'll have to do more work yourself and at the highest states you won't be able to hit the broad side of a barn and will be soaking up bullets like a sponge.

There will be two methods of controlling your emotional state. One is by injecting yourself with Prozium, which has become quite difficult to come by after the destruction of the factories (limited Prozium production has been restored by the time the game takes place, but not nearly enough to cover demand. Yergin, it seems, was a bit overly-optimistic in his ideas of human nature.) The other is to try to control your emotions yourself, accomplished in-game via moving the right controller stick in certain patterns, which will be difficult to impossible to perform when in combat, but relatively easy to do otherwise. However, if you deliberately move the stick in the opposite directions to what the game indicates, your emotional state increases until you hit a critical point and "flatline", the way Preston did at the end of the movie, which grants you a few seconds of zero-emotion and maximum gun-kata effectiveness.

Of course, the fact that the movie was seen by a grand total of about half a dozen people doesn't bode well for its chances of being converted to a video game.

[Temjin]

I'll probably be buying it. I enjoyed Enter the Matrix, and if PoN plays anything like it, I'll probably enjoy it too.

Of course, I am a Matrix fan. (Please don't kill me...)

[Molyneux]

I'll probably be buying it. I enjoyed Enter the Matrix, and if PoN plays anything like it, I'll probably enjoy it too.

Of course, I am a Matrix fan. (Please don't kill me...)

First movie = good, except for that stupid-ass "Duracell" bullshit.
Animatrix = VERY good, except for "Matriculated". I especially liked the 'glitch' episode, with the cat.
Second movie = Not as good as the first...the combat was better, but the rest of the movie suffered. Still worth watching now and then.

Third movie = blows. Starts out good, then goes complete and utter train-wreck.

S'how I see it...if the Wachowskis decided to remake the Matrix trilogies and fix the stuff they fucked up the first time, I'd be very, very happy.

[Eleas]

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The Matix:Path of Neo.

The graphics remind me of Enter the Matrix -- the poses seem lifeless and undynamic, and neither the character models nor the textures are very impressive to me.

And while I liked the idea of an Equilibrium game, I wasn't really impressed with the notion of having to do the old "waggle stick" routine. That's the kind of "action" I typically associate with games like Hugo or the latest Leisure Suit Larry. It's all too repetitive.

[Nephtys]

S'how I see it...if the Wachowskis decided to remake the Matrix trilogies and fix the stuff they fucked up the first time, I'd be very, very happy.

...you mean, totally film two new movies?

[Elheru Aran]

and there's a *row* of soliders right behind him... doing precisely fuck all?

Yeah, still images DO tend to be rather devoid of action. Who'da thunk it?

It's not a still; Neo is definitely moving, IIRC.

[Molyneux]

S'how I see it...if the Wachowskis decided to remake the Matrix trilogies and fix the stuff they fucked up the first time, I'd be very, very happy.

...you mean, totally film two new movies?

Yes.

Hell, they should refilm the scene in the first one and get rid of the dumb-assed "Duracell" argument completely, too.

[Acidburns]

Isn't there an equilibrium mod for Max Payne? I think I remeber seeing it in PC Gamer. You would automatically shoot a second target at once in front iirc. You could activate several different moves to shoot enemies left+right, front + back, 360 etc.

[weemadando]

GAH! Don't mention it...

The gun-kata system was used in the MI: New Dawn mod. And it was SHIT. Just play Kung-Fu mod 3.0. Or, The Hitman mod, which had IIRC Kung-Fu 2 in it and a bunch of other fun stuff, like posing...