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Evil Avatar
07-12-2005, 08:07 AM
EuroGamer has posted an interview (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=60024) with Shiny's Dave Perry, talking about the upcoming Matrix title, The Path of Neo, which will include a new ending to The Matrix Trilogy of movies.
Eurogamer: What will the Wachowski brothers input be in The Path Of Neo? Is it more than the usual 'endorsed by' stuff we've seen?
Dave Perry: They're going to do a directors' cut of all three movies into The Path Of Neo. They never do any editing of their movie footage, so they've given it to us so it's going into the game. It's really quite exciting for us. For Matrix fans it's cool to see it; they do interesting cuts. For example, you'll see the spoon boy, and then he'll say 'It's not the spoon that bends, it's you yourself,' and then you see a cut of him bending over backwards, and they've done a really interesting edit of the whole thing. I thought that was great, but then they said: 'you know what; we're going to change the ending of the trilogy'. So we have a new ending, and this new ending is really dramatic and will make a great videogame ending instead of a movie ending.In the interview they mention that gamers wanted to "play Neo". I never wanted to "play Neo", I wanted to "play a game whose controls didn't suck ass."
Vandenh
07-12-2005, 08:12 AM
"I wanted to "play a game whose controls didn't suck ass."
ROFL...
Maybe it is just a politically correct way of saying that reviews were bad. From now on when a game XXX sucks we will say "I only wanted to play neo in game XXX!"
darkwarrior
07-12-2005, 08:36 AM
No, I wanted to play Neo.
I didn't give a damn about Niobe or Ghost. Who thehell were they?
I wanted to be Morpheus or Neo or even Trinity, people who actually had something to do with the film.
Klade
07-12-2005, 08:38 AM
The game was awful, bad controls, and very bad porting that in no way took advantage of the power a PC has made it a bad buy. The most annoying thing of all though is that the game did amazingly well, sold like 12 million copies across all the various platforms if I remember correctly.
mkelehan
07-12-2005, 08:43 AM
In the interview they mention that gamers wanted to "play Neo". I never wanted to "play Neo", I wanted to "play a game whose controls didn't suck ass."
*raises glass*
crackeriah
07-12-2005, 08:48 AM
While I agree that "Enter the Matrix" was a pretty bad game, I actually thought the control was pretty good. I enjoyed their take on bullet-time, and the control was sufficiently good for me to feel like a badass when I caught a guard's kick and slammed him into a wall.
Evil Avatar
07-12-2005, 09:12 AM
No, I wanted to play Neo.
I didn't give a damn about Niobe or Ghost. Who thehell were they?
I wanted to be Morpheus or Neo or even Trinity, people who actually had something to do with the film.
I liked the alternative characters since they went to the trouble to use real actors from the films and film new sequences with those characters.
I just couldn't get past the poor controls. I played it for about 20 minutes on my Cube and then just gave up.
Kefkataran
07-12-2005, 09:18 AM
I heard they change the ending from the film series. I'm somewhat interested in seeing that, but it's prolly just a gimmick to get people to play. It probably isn't changed much.
Heretic Machine
07-12-2005, 09:49 AM
I wanted to, "Destroy everything that had to do with the Matrix from the moment I saw the first movie."
I personally thought that the wachowski brothers were major contributors to Enter the Matrix sucking. I felt like Shiny was forced to wrap the gameplay around their inane story and that's why you ended up with levels that were 3 minutes long with one enemy in them. Also this may have been the reason Shiny was forced to include the terrible car and spaceship chase levels instead of just working harder on the main on-foot game.
I could be wrong but then the brothers were given "director" status on the games and these do seem like decisions a director would make.
Excellent. Another game that tries to do a new ending on something that already has an ending. I loved the trilogy, but it looks like the brothers might now be trying to appease those that didn't by tacking on some additional ending. Unless it goes hand-in-hand with everything that wrapped at the end of Revolutions, I ain't interested.
Liquidize105
07-12-2005, 12:58 PM
Change the ending? Change the 2 sequels damnit!
Change the ending? Change the 2 sequels damnit!
No, because they were the best part of the series. Ahem.
Kefkataran
07-12-2005, 01:19 PM
No, because they were the best part of the series. Ahem.
Blue and I vs. The world.
Except I gave up on arguing whatever merits I thought the Matrix trilogy had a long time ago. People get too upset about it for a bunch of movies. Like I've always said, anti-fanboys are just as bad as fanboys most of the time.
Blue and I vs. The world.
Except I gave up on arguing whatever merits I thought the Matrix trilogy had a long time ago. People get too upset about it for a bunch of movies. Like I've always said, anti-fanboys are just as bad as fanboys most of the time.
True and true.
Grimgrock
07-13-2005, 11:28 AM
While I thought some of the fight sequences went on longer than they should have, I thought the sequels were very impressive.
As for the Enter the Matrix game, I had to cheat code my way through that one as some sequences were too dang hard for me on the computer. I guess on the Xbox it might have been better.
I'm looking forward to this new game but I don't need a new ending to the movies. The ending they created, if you understood it, was enough for me.
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