Very, very hard game to write a first play for.
The quality in this game is so all over the place I've never seen anything like it before - One minute it's good, really filmic and stuff, the next it's a piggin' mess.
Starts by just chucking you into what appears to be a never ending fight in the foyer area from the first film - This determines the difficulty for the rest of the game based on how long you can last (it chucks harder enemy types at you till you can't take it no more.)
After this it's onto a **** bit where you run about the office with Morpheus talking to you via the phone - this bit is very weak & almost ruined the game for me.
From there it's on to some training missions - Firstly stealth takedowns which are very boring then it gets going with some hand to hand combat followed by some great swordplay stuff followed by some atrocious gunfight training.
That lot will take at least an hour or so.
Herein lies the problem - When this game clicks and is running nice it is brilliant fun - the fights are very kinetic & cinematic at times, there's loads of stuff to kick people into & break, the combo system (what I've unlocked so far) is very nice
BUT
It can all fall down and shatter so easily - The framerate can swing wildly from acceptable to appalling (good example being a point where you are in the sewers with Trinity and another 2 AI buddies - when it gets hectic it dies on it's arse)
Also, one minute you can be admiring the motion capture of the characters, the next you're wondering why NEO looks transparent but you can't see anything behind him or why you can see his hair behind grass but no other part of him - It is very, very, very inconsistent.
BUT - I've had a lot of fun with it so far - the branching combo fight system is cool as, it has nice THX 5.1 surround sound, the graphics are "OK" and you can tell Shiny really love the Matrix universe - Some really, really cool moments which I won't spoil and the way that they've spliced the 3 movies together (at first it seems to be playing random clips) really starts to make sense after a while.
So, I was really getting stuck in then last night I got to a bit (Train To Balboa Station) which annoyed me so much I turned it off.
I'll be going back tonight but I reckon the veering in quality could ruin it before I get to the end.
Do I recommend it ? Hard to say - Like I said it's been mainly fun up till now, when it works it's really great but when it falls down it's really bad.
I really hope they spend 6 months now getting a spot on Xbox360 version together and iron out all the bugs/creases in the game as it stands - that could be an exceptional game if they did so.
Much better than Enter The Matrix then but not a must buy although if you're a big fan of the trilogy/original film then you should probably consider it.
I expect scathing reviews. Most contradicting game I ever played.
The quality in this game is so all over the place I've never seen anything like it before - One minute it's good, really filmic and stuff, the next it's a piggin' mess.
Starts by just chucking you into what appears to be a never ending fight in the foyer area from the first film - This determines the difficulty for the rest of the game based on how long you can last (it chucks harder enemy types at you till you can't take it no more.)
After this it's onto a **** bit where you run about the office with Morpheus talking to you via the phone - this bit is very weak & almost ruined the game for me.
From there it's on to some training missions - Firstly stealth takedowns which are very boring then it gets going with some hand to hand combat followed by some great swordplay stuff followed by some atrocious gunfight training.
That lot will take at least an hour or so.
Herein lies the problem - When this game clicks and is running nice it is brilliant fun - the fights are very kinetic & cinematic at times, there's loads of stuff to kick people into & break, the combo system (what I've unlocked so far) is very nice
BUT
It can all fall down and shatter so easily - The framerate can swing wildly from acceptable to appalling (good example being a point where you are in the sewers with Trinity and another 2 AI buddies - when it gets hectic it dies on it's arse)
Also, one minute you can be admiring the motion capture of the characters, the next you're wondering why NEO looks transparent but you can't see anything behind him or why you can see his hair behind grass but no other part of him - It is very, very, very inconsistent.
BUT - I've had a lot of fun with it so far - the branching combo fight system is cool as, it has nice THX 5.1 surround sound, the graphics are "OK" and you can tell Shiny really love the Matrix universe - Some really, really cool moments which I won't spoil and the way that they've spliced the 3 movies together (at first it seems to be playing random clips) really starts to make sense after a while.
So, I was really getting stuck in then last night I got to a bit (Train To Balboa Station) which annoyed me so much I turned it off.
I'll be going back tonight but I reckon the veering in quality could ruin it before I get to the end.
Do I recommend it ? Hard to say - Like I said it's been mainly fun up till now, when it works it's really great but when it falls down it's really bad.
I really hope they spend 6 months now getting a spot on Xbox360 version together and iron out all the bugs/creases in the game as it stands - that could be an exceptional game if they did so.
Much better than Enter The Matrix then but not a must buy although if you're a big fan of the trilogy/original film then you should probably consider it.
I expect scathing reviews. Most contradicting game I ever played.
The combat and controls were so shoddy it was painful to play. I won't be touching this one again, even with gloves on!
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