Enter The Matrix - Part 1
0Retro gaming and nostalgia are often a joy, especially when you're able to recapture the way you felt about a game, movie or book from your youth. The problem is that it goes both ways, and those fond memories are quickly disintegrated. Sadly, such is the case with Enter The Matrix. The game takes place between the average Matrix Reloaded and utterly terrible Matrix Revolutions - and occasionally splices into the plot as you play as Niobe and Ghost from the ship The Lobos. The game boasted an hour of new (badly acted) footage and claimed to put you, the player, into the Matrix - with the infamous freeway scene making an appearance, as well as frantic escape scenes from agents.
The game pre-dates twin stick camera control as a quality of life addition to more recent games, something that you can't really be mad at, and you play with a centred camera like Max Payne. The combat is fun enough, both hand to hand and gunfire bouts. You get to control bullet time and strategically pick your moments to run from cover into the thick of it to take on enemies. The sound design is excellent, really capturing the movie's slow down and dampness when you enter focus mode to flip, dive and launch into the action.
Sadly, this is about as much praise I can offer. The jankiness outweighs fluidity, the driving and flight missions are frustratingly bad, and levels are barren and boring or too dark to play. The game is full of textureless open areas with nothing going on in them. The whole game feels like it is unfinished and was rushed for realease between the two sequels. Perhaps most frustrating is that the same 50 seconds of score will often play through a certain level to the point of annoyance - and after playing through in 2024, you are reminded that the reason that you enjoyed the game so much was that it was fuelled by the hype over a third movie that you were yet to be disappointed by. I loved it at the time, but It's dull, beige - and what's the point when you could just play Max Payne or Total Overdose?
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