Enter the Matrix
Tags: good versus evil, psychedelic, alternate reality, neo noir, violence

Plot synopsis:
The story begins with Niobe, captain of the Logos, and Ghost, her first mate, retrieving a package left in the Matrix by the crew of the recently destroyed rebel ship Osiris. After being pursued by Agents, Ghost and Niobe escape from the Matrix with the package, which turns out to be a message to the human city Zion, warning them that the machines are approaching with an army of Sentinels. Niobe and Ghost are tasked with calling the rest of the ships back to Zion to coordinate a defense.
With this in mind, the captains of the various ships hold a meeting in the Matrix to decide on how best to defend themselves. During the meeting, Agents attack the building they are in, although Niobe and Ghost are able to help their allies escape. They then encounter the Keymaker, a program capable of accessing any area in the Matrix, who leads them to safety through a door he created. The Keymaker gives the two a key that they are supposed to give to Neo. However, the key is stolen by henchmen of the Merovingian, a program created during the early days of the Matrix who now operates an illegal smuggling ring within the program. Ultimately, the Merovingian destroys the key, but Niobe and Ghost are able to escape, when the Keymaker realizes that it is too early for the key to be given to Neo.
Niobe later volunteers to go find the Nebuchadnezzar, the ship captained by Morpheus, upon which Neo serves, and the only ship yet to return to Zion. Upon finding the ship and its crew, and helping them escape from the Matrix, Niobe and Ghost agree to help in Neo's mission against the machines, agreeing to destroy a power plant. After this mission is completed, the Oracle, a program that often gives the humans advice, requests that the player character come and speak to her. After their conversation, the player is confronted by Agent Smith, a rogue Agent that seeks to destroy both the human and machine worlds. The player character barely escapes from the hundreds of Smith copies and the Matrix. Once out, the Logos is attacked by the machines. They defeat the machines by setting off an EMP, which disables their own ship in the process. The game ends with Niobe and Ghost waiting in the Logos, hoping that they will be rescued. The two wonder what's coming but believe that it will be "a hell of a ride."
=== Characters ===
Aside from Ghost and Niobe, there are numerous secondary characters in Enter The Matrix.
Sparks — the operator on the Logos; he gives players tips and information throughout the game.
Smith — a program that can absorb human bodies and humanoid programs to make copies of himself; he chases the player through an abandoned skyscraper, and later, Chinatown.
Agent Johnson — an agent who appears frequently during the game; Niobe defeats him by kicking him off a cargo plane, while Ghost defeats him by knocking him into a short-circuited computer server.
Agent Jackson — another agent with frequent appearances in the game; Ghost defeats him by blowing up his helicopter. Jackson also tries to kill Niobe and Ghost after the crew of the Caduceus is saved, but the two were unexpectedly saved by the Keymaker.
Agent Thompson — the least-featured Agent in the game, who only appears in cinematics; the only opportunity to fight him occurs at the end of Niobe's missions at the power plant.
The Oracle — a program within the Matrix who often helps the humans.
Seraph — a martial arts master who protects the Oracle; he fights Niobe or Ghost once during the events of the game.
Morpheus — a member of the rebels, Niobe's ex-boyfriend, and captain of the Nebuchadnezzar.
Trinity — another rebel, a good friend of Ghost, to whom she refers as "dear brother"; first mate on the Nebuchadnezzar.
Neo — the most important rebel; Morpheus believes he is "The One".
Cmdr. Locke — leader of the Zion defence forces; Niobe's current boyfriend.
Axel, Soren, Ballard, Bane, Vector, Binary, Ice, Corrupt and Malachi — rebels encountered during the game.
The Keymaker — an old program who guides players through certain portions of the game.
The Trainman — carries multiple wristwatches on his arms; he controls the link between the Matrix and the machine city, and works for the Merovingian.
The Merovingian — an old program that has gone rogue in the Matrix; he has a chateau in the mountains wherein he has the Keymaker imprisoned; his henchmen are from early Matrix programs, and are rumored to be "vampires" and "werewolves".
Persephone — wife of the Merovingian; often betrays him out of spite.
Cain and Abel — two henchmen of the Merovingian.
Vlad — the black-clad, pale-skinned leader of the Merovingian's vampires; he is killed by Niobe, who stabs him through the heart with a wooden stake.
Cujo — the leader of the Merovingian's werewolves; he is killed by being impaled on a wooden stake in the dungeons of the chateau.
The Twins — employees of the Merovingian, they are encountered as the player leaves the chateau; they chase the players down a long tunnel, before they are finally evaded.
Sewing Woman — a character featured in the multiplayer mode of the game.

Review: When the Wachowski's shot footage for the video game as they were shooting The Matrix Reloaded and Do you have to play the video game in order to see the movies.
No, just like The Animatrix, you don't have to have played the game in order to enjoy the movie.
Cinematics - through the use of DVD quality video, you see the story unfold with all the main characters from the Matrix Trilogy.
No matter how powerful your computer is, the game play is going to bog down to a crawl whenever there are a lot of enemies on the screen.
I don't know that a video game is the best medium for telling a story, but I have to give the Wachowski brothers credit for the attempt.
Not just a little at a time, but in 20 seconds you can go from 2% to 100% if you simply stand still (and no one is shooting at you).Other than the 1 hour of DVD quality video (have I said that enough yet?), the only saving grace is the audio in the game.
It's weird when the sound effects are the most notable aspects of a game, but they are that good.The music is also excellent.
If you're a die-hard Matrix fan, then I'd recommend buying the game if you can find it on sale.
Even if you're not a die-hard fan, the story arcs are good and worth slugging through the game to watch them..
After seeing the movie, i started playing the game.
It has clips of the movie.....which are very cool.Also I think the graphics of this game look perfect.
If you have 20$ or whatever you have in your wallet.........BUY THIS GAME RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!Its really worth to buy you know.It has every thing you want.Its real cool.
'Deleted scenes' from The Matrix Reloaded compiled into a video game..
It is sort of a "Fill In" for many scenes in Matrix Reloaded, or Ghost's or Niaobi's perspective of things.One can play as Ghost or Niaobi and the game starts with us stealing a tape from a post office.
Another good factor is the sound, which is top notch and the music.Direction/Animation: Good.Story/Screenplay: Good.Acting: Average.Music: Awesome.A game for movie fans but not gamers..
One of the all time best Movie-based games ever made.
Seriously, if your a fan of the matrix and you love movie based games done well, then this is the game for you.
I am a movie fan more, and I did really enjoy the matrix movies, so being able to do bullet time in slow mo, dressed in some slick duds with sunglasses and visiting matrix 1 environments, evading agent smith clones, all the while watching a story made exclusively for the game that ties into the movie, its just a great experience and a fun one.
I thought the graphics were exceptional and well done, even though other reviewers say it looks "rushed", think about it, the game had to tie into the release of the movie and if it at times looks like that, which is rare, it still doesn't look "bad".
This game is basically a background story for "the Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions" and allows you to play as Niobe and Ghost ( voiced and played in the cinematics by Jada Pinkett Smith and Anthony Wong).
Oh well, play it anyway if you love the "Matrix" trilogy or Action/Adventure/SciFI/Thriller games!.
All in all, it's a good game and if you like the Matrix, get it..
When I first heard about this game and how it tied in with the Matrix movies I was very interested.
Enter the Matrix is, hands down, the worst video game I have ever played: controls are terrible, graphics are crap, game play is frustrating.
And it was nifty seeing the Trainman reappear in the movie.In the end, I'd recommend this game to any, at least slightly serious Matrix fan.
The cut scenes read like the deleted scenes from the film, but without any of the connecting scenes from the movie or exposition explaining what's going on, the game has no coherent story or thru-line.The game play was decent, but the graphics are far behind other games for GameCube, Playstation, or X-Box. The motion capture often left the animated cut scenes feeling stiff.
The game is pretty good, but could have had some things improved if they had put the time into it.
Granted, auto-aiming is pretty bad if you are not using focus, but hey, that's one of the points of the game--focus makes everything better.
You can do stuff like sideways no-handed cartwheels, diving toward or away from guys while shooting, jumping farther, running up/along walls, and doing better fighting moves.Negatives: *Bad AI.
In fact, as a game in its own right, its hard to actually say whats good about it (The hacking is a nice, innovative feature and the focus bar makes for some nice touches, but that really is all thats worth noting).
Because while it is a shockingly average game, it is perhaps the best use of a movie liscence you will ever see.
You get to play as a charecter in the Matrix, in a well recreated, if a tad bland looking and badly modelled, world.So summed up - average game, excellent liscense.
It is a nice game to play, the fighting is the best but the graphics are not a surprising thing to see.
But you can drive Niobe´s car in that avenue that appears in the movie when morpheus is on the Truck fighting with an agent.The good thing in this game are the voices of the real actors from Matrix and sound of the weapons, and of course the fighting.Bad thing: As i sad auto aim is terrible and the design of the weapons are crappy.Of course the game will have a sequel, let´s pray that the next one is bettr than this.
'Enter The Matrix' is a very good game, in fact it is one the better action games that have ever come out.
Featuring a great story with very fun hand-to hand combat and a nice variety of game-play, 'Enter The Matrix' will take you further down the rabbit hole.
I never got past "control tower 2" with ghost because it would crash every time it went to play the cutscene.The hacking was kind of fun.
Enter the Matrix is not a bad game...but certain things keep it from being great.
I have the GC version of this and for those who have not played it yet: picture Max Payne with hand to hand fighting, and driving levels and you have ETM.I liked the game despite how short it was...and not to mention how easy it was also.
Fans of the series will want to check this out...but if you hated games like Max Payne and Dead 2 Rights...you'll hate this game too.Enter The Matrix Final GradeB-.
Then again, compared to the voice acting in games like Silent Hill 2 (a game which I loved), it's a massive improvement.I am going to finish this game but primarily because I am a massive Matrix fan - I want to see the extra movie footage.
THE GAME tells you where to safe, so you might be playing parts of the game very often...The story, ah, it´s okay, but the levels are more or less the same, it get´s boring very soon.The only good thing about the game is the kung fu part.
Very nice, lot´s of fun, but that doesen´t help after all.This is one hell of a frustrating game, and i really don´t know why i should waste my time with it.Matrix license?
This is NOT in any way a good game, an average at best!
If you have played ONE good game in your life, then by the second level you will see and know that this game was not ready to be sold in stores?
Can't really compere it whit the X-box but it's probebly kinda like the GC ver.It's a dam shame that companies can abuse great movie licenses like this, but that just goes to show that most people don't care about how good a game is, they just buy the license and are then blinded by it..
I recommend this to a Matrix fan or someone who like beating up cops, and doing wicked moves.
The 3 comes from an interesting first few missions, and you are able to play until the end just for the really cool matrix trailer.
In Enter the matrix you could either play as ghost or niobe.
I would recommend you to play as ghost because ghost does a lot more than niobe such as shooting cars in your way in a 3D graphic car chases.
Ok to the game the story lets you understand the movie better such as seeing what happend before everything happended in reloaded.
When they do connect, your body goes right through their character models).SOUND: Pretty decent, but I don't know why people are missing the fact that the music skips at given points (the PS2 version, anyway).
Gunshots sound realistic, too, such as the handguns, which actually sound like the blazing gunfire coming from the guns in the films.GAMEPLAY: Play through the first 20 minutes of the game and you'll automatically be in awe.
The events in the game actually take place after the "Final Flight of the Osiris" mini-movie, and 3 days before the events in Reloaded.
Sure, the game lets you do bullet time, but even that gets boring after a while.
A mediocre action game that is a must have for every die-hard "Matrix" fan.
"Enter the Matrix" is an interesting exercise, it's the latest attempt to merge video games and movies closer together by linking them to one story.
This title takes place between the CGI animated short "Final Flight of the Osiris" and "The Matrix Reloaded".It's basically a back story for the two minor characters who are featured in "Reloaded" played by Jada Pinkett Smith and Anthony Wong.
You also have the ability to "focus" and manipulate the Matrix like Neo, Trinity and Morpheus do in the films.The levels are mindless entertainment, they do not require much from the player other than to press a few buttons to fight and move.
I did like the element of "hacking" into the Matrix, which is based on the old DOS system.With this, you can unlock a number of features, cheats and mini-games.
Maybe juggling the production of the movies, comic books, video game and animated shorts were just too much to tell one huge story with.
Now, there is a feature called Focus in this(using it is how you shoot straight), and holding down the button that starts it lets you break the rules, do things you can't in real life(slow down time, wall-run, dodge, etc.), and that is one of the areas where this gets fun.
I'm a huge matrix fan and I found it very innovative to tie in the game with the movie.
What I mean by that is that when I want to look back at the matrix saga it will be very limiting because chances are that most of the systems that we play this game on today will not be commonly used in the ten or twenty years.
Enter the matrix is one of the best games ever!
I think some of the levels are a bit too hard but most are really good and this game is up in the hall of fame, with games like Grand theft auto 4.9.5/10.
Lets get one thing straight, this is by far the worst excuse for a game I have played for a long time.
Obviously a lot of thought has gone into the story, and the cut scenes are fantastic, but actually playing through the game is painful.
Very obviously rushed to get it out in time for the film.But whilst the game itself is as poor as newborn tramp, the package itself is actually rather good.
You get to play in 'THE MATRIX' and fight like NEO.
You get to play with Niobe or Ghost who feature less in Matrix Reloaded movie.This Game is as good as the film.
I mean, I have played a lot of video games, but I think that this could be the best one ever.
Other than that, this is the best video game I have ever played.
I've played Enter the Matrix for the Playstation 2 and i think that the game is absolute class, the graphics, the action that's in the game and the movie is just cool, i think it's an amazing game and i really would give the game and outstanding 10/10.
AS far as movie connected games goes this is as good as it gets.
I think that the fight and other coerography is very good, but the graphics and the gameplay (Max Payne was a lot better) is too average.
The music is very good: it makes a real Matrix feeling for this game.
This game maybe worthwhile to anyone that likes The Matrix, if you want my opinion this would make a better movie than The Matrix Reloaded.
Enter the Matrix was the most expensive game made.It was 20 million dollars for its production.But the money made an amazing game, with marvelous graphics, great sounds(of the actors of the movies) and a great difficulty level, making a high fun factor.
The game is great, with only a problem: the hacker mode is ridiculous.The Best: Amazing graphics and soundsThe Worst: the terrible hacking modeLinking: Final Flight of the Osiris to Reloaded.
Occasionally your character will perform a complex fighting move where they grapple with an enemy and knock them out except they don't pull off the first move correctly, i.e. getting a hold of the enemy, and they will perform the entire sequence of fight moves against thin air.The first problem is understandable considering that MOST video games don't have accurate physics engines.
Occasionally your character will perform a complex fighting move where they grapple with an enemy and knock them out except they don't pull off the first move correctly, i.e. getting a hold of the enemy, and they will perform the entire sequence of fight moves against thin air.The first problem is understandable considering that MOST video games don't have accurate physics engines.
Unlike most movie tie-in games this actually compliments the films rather than trying to imitate it or be a condensed version.2.
Unlike most movie tie-in games this actually compliments the films rather than trying to imitate it or be a condensed version.2.
The use of focus power, or bullet time as it is also known, makes for some very impressive hand to hand and gun fighting.
The use of focus power, or bullet time as it is also known, makes for some very impressive hand to hand and gun fighting.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Matrix concept (if you don't know any thing about the films then why the heck are you reading about the game?) I will give you a prime example of bullet time so that you can understand the magnitude of being able to control this power.Five minutes into the first Matrix film we see a woman dressed a black, leather biker's outfit with her hands on her head about to be cuffed from behind by a cop, there are three other's who all have guns trained on her as he approaches.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Matrix concept (if you don't know any thing about the films then why the heck are you reading about the game?) I will give you a prime example of bullet time so that you can understand the magnitude of being able to control this power.Five minutes into the first Matrix film we see a woman dressed a black, leather biker's outfit with her hands on her head about to be cuffed from behind by a cop, there are three other's who all have guns trained on her as he approaches.
This is what bullet time is about.The game itself is sufficiently entertaining that if every thing about the matrix were stripped away from it and it were simply an action/adventure/fighting game with no connections to any other product it would still be a decent enough game to stand on it's own.
This is what bullet time is about.The game itself is sufficiently entertaining that if every thing about the matrix were stripped away from it and it were simply an action/adventure/fighting game with no connections to any other product it would still be a decent enough game to stand on it's own.
The thing that makes this a good game is that it (like The Animatrix) is more like a compendium to the matrix than an entity unto it self.All in all I would give this game a.
The thing that makes this a good game is that it (like The Animatrix) is more like a compendium to the matrix than an entity unto it self.All in all I would give this game a.
I recommend to watch the movie and play the game.
It's one heck of a story.Game: When we look at graphics it looks good and the sound is OK.
If you are a hardcore gamer: play this game if you like good story or if you are a total fan of the Matrix trilogy..
Similarly, the controls were so simplistic I could hardly do anything I wanted to with my character.Both these problems stem from the fact that Enter The Matrix was rushed to the PC format with virtually no consideration for the new platform - I have well over 50 buttons on my keyboard, and can only do about 3 things in the game.
It feels rushed, poorly executed and is, frankly, an insult to Matrix fans.This is one game to avoid like the plague.
Go play Max Payne instead to see how Bulle Time games SHOULD be done.