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[Kintaro]

I simply cannot WAIT for Leguna's Final Judgement on this game. Especially after he hyped it up huge after E3 (was E3 right?).

Ohhhh maaaaan. :lol

 

[Mr Mike]

Don't they have the rights to the DBZ games though? I'm sure those probably sell pretty well.

True. They sell really well in some Euro territories too thanks to Cartoon Network.

 

[Snaku]

I hope Atari goes under soon, I really do. After this whole Atari-brand-fetishism, the Enter The Matrix and Driv3r magazine score debacles, and then picking up the Franco-fetishistic Fahrenheit (Hello! Vivendi dropped it because it was shit and origiunally commissioned by another Frenchman. DUH.). Now this car crash. FUCK OFF Atari. Fuck off and die.

Yeah, seriously. They went on for a year about how this game would be polished, with smooth gameplay and no bugs. Turns out it's Enter the Matrix 2. Awesome.

Fuck off Atari, or should I say...*pulls off mask*...INFOGRAMES!?!

"ZOINKS!"

 

[demi]

BTW folks, a free tag to the first person who encodes a video of the

Spoiler

final fight and Zionites singing Queen

, because:

1 - I want to see it
2 - I'll be damned if these guys get any of my $$ even as a rental

GO GO GO GO GO

I'll do it.

 

[Borys]

Guys don't forget that Perry wants consoles to be upgradeable just like PCs.

PGR4 or MGS5 not at 60 fps? Buy more VRAM for your console!

:lol

Pure lunacy!

 

[JackFrost2012]

if this ending is true then a movie of it will be the best thing in the history of the medium

 

[Mike Works]

the PC port was handled by one guy?? hahaha, is there any room left in the desert, ET?

 

[Docpan]

Made a new thread. didn't see the sticky. God help me, I wish I did this morning.

Got a chance to pick up a copy of Path of Neo today. PC version.

Though, in all honesty, with all the blurring, lo-res textures, glitches, absolute lack of shadowing/lighting/physics/smooth animation, I swear, this should be renamed "Enter the matrix 2: You still can't fucking leave"

This has got to be one of the worst looking and (so far) playing releases I've subjected myself to yet this year. As mentioned before, almost no lighting model to speak of, so it is quite often that we see characters literally floating on the screen. secondly, the amount of glitches in this game rivals the original ETM, much to my continued disbelief. Poly glitches, objects vanishing from the environment entirely, the specular shading intermittently vanishing from Neo's and Agent Smith's faces intermittently during dialogue. The this is the best Shiny can do WITHOUT the pressure of a movie release and ridiculously high expectations!? Dave, WHAT THE FUCK? By the second or third stage (a training level gone haywire, where the dojo you find yourself in is succumbing -- I kid you not -- to program errors and glitches in the system--the game actually CRASHED. it took me a second to realize the fatal error onscreen wasn't some dubiously clever part of the game. This buggy piece of shit managed to crash for REAL during a scripted 'crash' sequence!) The game is plagued by the GTA III "lets smear vaseline on the lens and blur the shit out of everything like you're playing on a crappy LCD monitor with a 40ms response time" motion blur that you can't fucking turn off. . .

I think the worst part is I actually had hope for this game. problem is all the cool looking 'scripted' combat moves in all the trailer amount to clicking away on the mouse inneffectually like a caffienated monkey playing diablo 2. This is the first game in a long time I ended up returning to Gamestop on the same day it was purchased. It's like the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me into buying another Shiny Matrix game, Take my wallet and cut my thumbs off, I don't fucking deserve them."

Sorry to hear that man. :\

As others are reporting, the PC version was apparantly ported by one fucking person. Pathetic, really.

 

[Snaku]

:lol Path of Neo = Nail in the Coffin

 

[Defensor]

As well, apparently the PC version was ported by ONE GUY. The PC version also doesn't run for most people.

WHAT?! :lol

 

[Senretsu]

Man that sucks. I have fond memories of The Matrix so I was hoping this would be good, but it sounds like pure shit. Should have given the license to someone capable instead of Shiny, I mean they had TWO tries to get this right.

 

[eshwaaz]

Unbelievable. With Enter the Matrix, the excuse was that the production was rushed in order to coincide with the release of the film, and that Shiny was in the middle of a messy move to a new building during a key part of the development. What the hell is the excuse this time?

The Matrix is easily one of the most videogame-friendly franchises of all time, and had such potential to be a truly satisfying and memorable experience. Shiny managed to blow it not once, but twice. They had access to such unprecedented resources, but still could not pull off a worthwhile game. I cannot get over how terrible this game looks in motion - there's no sense of weight, mass, or inertia whatsoever. What a freaking embarrassment.

I remember seeing the first gameplay movies of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and desperately wishing that Ubisoft (Montreal) had gotten the Matrix license instead of Atari. Then when Enter the Matrix got ravaged by the critics, I thought that maybe there was hope; maybe another developer would get a shot. Nope. Another pathetic turd from Shiny.

Dammit.

 

[Dead]

Holy shit :lol :lol

 

[Unison]

Someone please please please upload the We Are the Champions video. :lol

 

[Trevelyon]

The ending is the craziest, most fucked up hilarious ending to a game to, it seems

According to Mrs. Badcrumble at the SA forums

Spoiler

Basically, when you kill Super Smith like in the end of Revolutions, the other regular Smiths everywhere say that all that Jesus stuff wouldn't work in a videogame, so they all jump together along with debris and cars and chunks of buildings and take those sunglasses off of a billboard. Then they fight you in that giant Smith form, and when you kill that, the ending is basically the same as in the films except Neo isn't dead, and then after that it shows everybody in Zion singing Queen's "We Are The Champions." I shit you not. It's retarded and the Wachowskis must hate everyone and I have no idea how Shiny let them do that.

Also this was confirmed by another poster putting up a screenshot of the final boss and a scan of the manual :lol :lol :lol

SPOILERS
http://img60.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11313194867699va.jpg
http://img60.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11313195302424hc.jpg
SPOILERS

I'm going to try rent this tonight. :lol

 

[Dilbert]

To say nothing of the fact that, for some odd reason, if you set the graphic setting to maximum, it stops rendering shit entirely--first time I played all I could see was the background and Neo's fucking head. THAT WAS IT. Neo's fucking head lying on the desk. Neo's fucking head floating around as it leisurely bobbed between cubicles trying to avoid the agent heads and security guard heads looking for it. Neo's fucking head spinning around like a drunk baby as it did pre-canned martial 'arts' maneuvers. Please explain that shit to me, cause honestly, even though it was one fucked up glitch, it was far more involving and captivating than the actual game.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

That should be in the running for "post of the year."

 

[Snaku]

I'm going to try rent this tonight. :lol

:lol Perfect.

 

[MrDaravon]

Quick, someone get the names of the QA people out of the manual!

 

[Father_Brain]

:lol Holy shit.

 

[Wario64]

i always wondered what the ending would be, considering the ending to Enter the Matrix was a teaser for The Matrix Revolutions. it looks like Shiny totally delivered this time

GOTY

 

[JackFrost2012]

Further fuel to the fire, from a Shacknews interview:

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/2005/102005_pathofneo_qa_1.x

Shack: It would be kind of a bummer to die at the end of the game like Neo did in Revolutions. Is the ending different in Path of Neo? If so, any specifics you're willing to divulge?

BJ: The ending is different in PoN. It's actually so different that... ah, I can't go there. (emphasis mine) But what I can tell you is that the Wachowski Bros. make a special appearance and personally introduce the new ending and divulge thoughts on the original. It's great. It's original. And it's for the gamer. Cool.

 

[AirBrian]

i always wondered what the ending would be, considering the ending to Enter the Matrix was a teaser for The Matrix Revolutions. it looks like Shiny totally delivered this time

GOTY

:lol :lol

SHINY DISCO BALLS!

 

[MrDaravon]

BJ: The ending is different in PoN. It's actually so different that... ah, I can't go there. (emphasis mine) But what I can tell you is that the Wachowski Bros. make a special appearance and personally introduce the new ending and divulge thoughts on the original. It's great. It's original. And it's for the gamer. Cool.

I like how it sounds like he's going to spill the beans about how it blows, then he suddenly sees Perry fingering a gun or something, and his attitude suddenly changes.

 

[dark10x]

this is the best Shiny can do WITHOUT the pressure of a movie release and ridiculously high expectations!?

Unfortunately, it may be the best they can do NOW...but in the past, Shiny had a great track record. Really, up until EtM, they had generally been known for releasing high quality games. I guess the people that left Shiny really WERE important...

 

[GG-Duo]

The ending is different in PoN. It's actually so different that... ah, I can't go there. (emphasis mine) But what I can tell you is that the Wachowski Bros. make a special appearance and personally introduce the new ending and divulge thoughts on the original. It's great. It's original. And it's for the gamer. Cool.

What the hell?

 

[drohne]

:lol i'm a bit sad to hear that shiny have in fact gone to shit, but that ending at least merits a rental.

 

[FiRez]

so the media of this game was doctored has hell?

because the screenshots are not that bad.

 

[Wario64]

so the media of this game was doctored has hell?

because the screenshots are not that bad.

have you not learned from Enter the Matrix and Driv3r?

 

[Amir0x]

This thread cracks me up. SotC, RE4, DQ8 are done. PoN is going on my case for GOTY.

 

[dark10x]

so the media of this game was doctored has hell?

because the screenshots are not that bad.

How much do screenshots REALLY mean, though? A game can look great in stills, but animate and control like ass...

 

[FightyF]

What the hell?

*LOL* I was thinking the same thing!

Can't stop laughing! I'm trying to picture him say those words... :lol :lol :lol

 

[sprsk]

I need to see a video of this so bad it hurts.

 

[Hurricane_Chris]

The Matrix franchise has to be one of the most mismanaged entertainment franchises of all time. The first movie was greatness that basically came out of nowhere.The two sequels, while dissapointing in many ways, layed the groundwork for a universe with almost infinite potential -- especially games. Where the fuck did they go wrong?!?!?!?!

 

[Archaix]

Between that ending and this:

To say nothing of the fact that, for some odd reason, if you set the graphic setting to maximum, it stops rendering shit entirely--first time I played all I could see was the background and Neo's fucking head. THAT WAS IT. Neo's fucking head lying on the desk. Neo's fucking head floating around as it leisurely bobbed between cubicles trying to avoid the agent heads and security guard heads looking for it. Neo's fucking head spinning around like a drunk baby as it did pre-canned martial 'arts' maneuvers. Please explain that shit to me, cause honestly, even though it was one fucked up glitch, it was far more involving and captivating than the actual game.

How could this possibly not be game of the year? I didn't give a damn about it and wouldn't have thought about giving it a chance if it weren't for these new developments.

 

[Mike Works]

oh god oh god someone HAS to upload the Queen singing.

i mean, yeah, the whole new boss fight is lame, but the Queen sining

MY GOD THE QUEEN SINGING

 

[demi]

I rented the game, I'll have the ending up by the end of the week.

 

[BobTheFork]

Wow, I really hope this drives the final coffin nail into people's endless wanking over the w. bros. They made ONE good flick, FROM AN IDEA STOLEN FROM F'N SHADOWRUN, and that's about it. I'm also suprised Shiny still carried any weight after EtM, this should clear up that little problem too. *Hey kids, play along at home and insert your own Drake of the 99 Dragons rip right here---*

Edit: So can we assume that the W. bros were pissed noone liked thier follow up films and game, and are taking their ball and going home? "Didn't like revolutions huh?, well .... take this.... is that the ending you wanted?!?!?" I really hope for so more fallout, this is just piss poor.

 

[FoneBone]

I rented the game, I'll have the ending up by the end of the week.

I can't wait that long

 

[JackFrost2012]

They made ONE good flick, FROM AN IDEA STOLEN FROM F'N SHADOWRUN, and that's about it.

What the hell does Shadowrun have to do with Philip K. Dick?

 

[demi]

I can't wait that long

AND WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING

'TIL THE ENNNNNNNNNNNNND

 

[BobTheFork]

What the hell does Shadowrun have to do with Philip K. Dick?

Read up on Shadowrun.

"THE YEAR IS 2050"

And the megaplexes are monsters casting long shadows. When you become a
shadowrunner that's where you live...
in the cracks between the giant cooperate structures. The megacorps are
powerful in a time when power means information...
...computer information flowing in the global network called the
MATRIX.

Go read about the games.

 

[JackFrost2012]

Go read about the games.

Wow, a computer network called the MATRIX? Ripoff city! Those poor original visionaries.

 

[StoOgE]

Man, Im so fucking cool. Just look at this Bandana. I'd like to see Romero pull this off.

Hey Fucker, Remember us?

No.

Yeah, we made all your games. Like the good ones. Remember MDK and Earthworm Jim. Well, we got tired of your Koala pooping everywhere, so we left. Since then we made Giants, Armed and Dangerous and Infected. Since then you have released Enter the Matrix and um.. path of Neo.

Yeah, well I have a Koala, so you can shut the fuck up.

 

[BobTheFork]

Wow, a computer network called the MATRIX? Ripoff city! Those poor original visionaries.

Now damnit monkey, I said go read about the games, not just read my post. GO READ ABOUT THE GAMES. You jack into the matrix and fight your battles in it.You upload programs to add skills and increase stats. Yes its actually VERY different than the film. Sry I brought it up

Edit: read about the Sega Gensis ShadowRun Game, I thought it was the best anyway, but I never played the SCD version.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Man, Im so fucking cool. Just look at this Bandana. I'd like to see Romero pull this off.

Hey Fucker, Remember us?

No.

Yeah, we made all your games. Like the good ones. Remember MDK and Earthworm Jim. Well, we got tired of your Koala pooping everywhere, so we left. Since then we made Giants, Armed and Dangerous and Infected. Since then you have released Enter the Matrix and um.. path of Neo.

Yeah, well I have a Koala, so you can shut the fuck up.

"Is John Romero gonna have to choke someone...



...and then proceed to make them his bitch?"

 

[EekTheKat]

Oh god...where do I even begin with this game....

..... I picked up this game anyway today at lunch...just got around to opening it and playing

I got as far as

Spoiler

the first level if you will...where you run around as defenseless Mr. Anderson through an office building.......it feels like a poorly implemented sneaking game shoehorned in just for the sake of following the movie plot...

Halfway through the level I realized all I did for the first 10 minutes or so of the game was run around an office building shoving security guards to the ground :lol

Your usual checklist of everything that's wrong with a movie game tie in goes here (framerate problems, camera is glitchy, nonresponsive gameplay, the general lack of fun of it all).

After glancing over this thread though, I'm dying to see this ending....so I'll probably try to plod through the rest of this game later tonight.

 

[EekTheKat]

I have to dig up the old matrix movies again......Did Neo always sound like Butthead from Beavis and Butthead?

 

[dark10x]

I have to dig up the old matrix movies again......Did Neo always sound like Butthead from Beavis and Butthead?

Another reason to buy it!

 

[daegan]

it feels like a poorly implemented sneaking game shoehorned in just for the sake of following the movie plot...

BUT IT DOESN'T

IF IT FOLLOWED THE MOVIE IT'D HAVE ALL THE GREAT FIGHT SCENES AND GOOD PACING

INSTEAD WE GET RANDOM INVENTED CHARACTERS

Part of me is trying to find SOMETHING to enjoy here. If the characters were animated well I could get past a LOT of the other glitches. But there's really no excuse for a lot of what we see here.

Oh, and whoever said that they wanted to see Ubisoft take this license on? Do you REALLY think it'd be LESS glitchy? This is the company that let Warrior Within ship with multiple game-ending bugs.

 

[dark10x]

Oh, and whoever said that they wanted to see Ubisoft take this license on? Do you REALLY think it'd be LESS glitchy?

Agreed there...

Ubisoft has shipped some of the most unpolished, bug-filled games this gen. I can't think of any recent Ubi game that didn't have SOME sort of problem.