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Excellent and Fun. Best MMORPG to Date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: March 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Tired of all the "thous and thus's"? This game puts you into a modern world MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game). You get to group with other "redpills" and help your faction along. This story line picks up just after the 3rd movie and is going to be very active. If you do not start NOW you will most likely be a bit behind as someone starting a year from now will most definately see a different game.

Played Beta and am now playing the live version and I cannot say enough good about this game. I have played just about all MMORPG's out there and this is the best so far. If you have grown tired of "hack-n-slash" fantasy themed RPG's, this is your Huckleberry.

-Joe

Still a Beta

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: April 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay so like a lot of other people on this listing and on others -- I was expecting and looking forward to a kick-ass game based on the Matrix Trilogy. I had a number of people tell me good and bad from both sides but I still ended up picking it up just because I was looking to get into a new game.

Now I don't have a monster machine but it is a p4 3ghz with a 64mb Radeon and a gig of memory -- even with that I had to have the resolution set fairly low and most details turned down just so it wouldn't be laggy when walking around the streets with no one on them....forget about any computer or human players -- lag central.

Okay so I can get past the lagging - when I first installed they already had a 100 meg patch to get so they are working on things. The part that ticked me off the most was a spawning issue I ran into near the very beginning of the game -- had a mission to go meet Niobe -- well the first time I got to the location -- no spawn...cancelled the mission and restarted -- again no spawn of Niobe...3rd time... there she is!

Landscape is pretty but as soon as you step inside a few buildings -- de ja vu -- I think they only created like 3 different building interiors and just replicated them throughout the entire "MegaCity".

Community..er lack there of. I guess this might be a bit buyist but I had the opportunity to play WoW for a few weeks and had just an excellent time interacting with other players just like myself. I don't think I even said hi to anyone inside The Matrix -- that or I couldn't tell if they were going to come after me or not since it looks like the game developers are randomly turning PVP on to incite a "war" or something like that.

Fighting was pretty cool and I did get to see a "bullet-time" effect once but definitely not worth it. Camera positioning sucks so that even if you are inside a building fighting against a wall the camera might accidentally fly outside and you have no idea happened. Computer players have no intelligence whatsoever -- couldn't even follow me through a door...and as they promised but haven't delivered, the streets are fairly devoid of "blue pills" still plugged in. Sure you see an occasional person sitting at a bar or something but nothing like you would expect from a city simulation -- I mean even Sim City has bands of people walking around, going to work, using mass transportation.

I hate to be so negative of this game and like I said --a bit buyist because I had played WoW prior. It does have great potential and for those hard core Matrix fans out there -- it will definitely wet your whistle but my "lower" system stats coupled with really lame spawning issues force me to turn my attention elsewhere.

Not worth the 20$ I paid for it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having played many other MMO's over the years, I finally found a copy of the Matrix Online at a store recently, and decided to give it a whirl. I am a fan of the Matrix movies, and of the Animatrix, as well as a big fan of the Cyberpunk genera in general. In theory the Matrix Online should have been a great product, as it has so many elements to draw from to make a good game.

However I quickly found myself to be very dissatisfied with my purchase. The introduction to the game was very well done, in which you learned how to control your character and interact with the environment. However the tutorial did not adequately explain how to utilize the UI properly.

Once I actually entered into the world, there was no clear goal, path or set of activities to begin to start getting "into" the game. Travel to the various points was akwardly done, and travel times between even nearby locations is way too high. The UI interface is difficult at best to deal with, and there is no real obviously visible indication when another character tries to communicate with you (tells/whispers/etc.).

All in all I do not rate this game very highly, and would not recommend it to anyone.

The Matrix Online

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: May 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the son of the account holder:
The Matrix Online is a good and a bad game; I enjoy it, but it would be a lie to say otherwise.

I was a beta-tester and I've seen the game through its stages, the developers respond to almost all player comments to improve the game. Role-playing is very much encouraged; in fact, there is a "Live Events Team" whose job it is to act as film characters.

It allows you to be with the real world alongside the Matrix by having an in-game "Windows Media Player" client and AIM instant messaging.

The best thing about the Matrix is its ability system; on a whim, you can completely change what knowledge is stored in your character's head. This way, you can make a Aikido Grandmaster into a spy in a second; it also allows hybrid classes.

The weak point is its learning curve; this is extremely confusing and detracts by a star.

Well, I'm now off to go "jack-in"

Fun but far from perfect or even good.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 21
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok first of all you will need at least double the minimum requrements to play this game. Got dial-up? Don't get Matrix online. They say it works on dial-up but apparently "there is a level of working that we are prepared to accept." Servers have gone down a lot recently (they may have fixed it by the time you buy).

With that said, the game is lots of fun if your comp and connection can handle it. It has the potential to be really great if they can fix the bugs and optimize it to work on the requirements posted on the box.

The in game clothes are great. Never seen so many styles available in any game ever. No matter what you do your residual self image will probably look good doing it!

There is no spoon.

Outstanding story and action online multiplayer game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: April 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a blast...

I have played a few other MMOs, but this one is hands-down the coolest. Be wary, though - you REALLY need to run their recommended computer specs to get the full benefits out of this rascal.

The Matrix Online has an OUTSTANDING online community, and with live stroytellers and small and larger story arcs, this makes for great role-playing and simple action gaming.

And the character options and combat ROCKS... :)

Ken

Matrix Unbalanced

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The setup of this game is promising: as a "redpill" newly awakened in the world that comes to The Matrix after the third movie, you are presented with a great deal of possibility. Options for character creation are varied enough that you seldom run across look-alikes, and the scenario that starts your trip into the game plays out just like the movies, complete with short "virtual training" sequences.

Unfortunately, from there the game begins to slide. A badly-released buggy game by Monolith and Sega, Warner Brothers quickly dumped the title and handed it to Sony Online (EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies). Patches are still a regular affair and seldom fix bugs. The transition ate my advance payment to WB for months of service (Sony says, "it should be there" but nonetheless would not let me continue playing until I'd provided them my credit card information, and simply began billing me at once). The patches often reset my firewall rules because they recompile the launcher.

Perhaps the largest problem is that the game is badly balanced: leveling up is best done taking "missions", most of which blur together after the first hour or two. You quickly stop reading the dialogue in your rush to get it over with. Missions are heavily stacked against you: unless you get someone higher-level to do all the work while you sit in the lobby, you will die. And take a skill penalty when you are revived. And take an XP penalty when you complete the mission. If you take too long, the mission times out. If the mission is buggy, you'll get most of the way through it before you have to abort. Even worse, at a certain path in the game, your character only gets missions in dangerous parts of town, where just getting from point A to point B is a lethal exercise.

This forces you to band together with other players, which can be the best and worst of gameplay. The saving grace to this game is that there are a lot of good people out there who will help you, bring you along, and give you the tools to get there. Even so, one of the biggest balance elements that needs to be addressed is that when you mission with higher-level characters, the mission scales to the highest level. In other words, you can't be a sidekick to the one person at the top and help them a la City of Heroes: chances are you won't get a single shot in, you just die. And the highest member then does all the work while waiting for you to make your way back to the building to rejoin the team.

It's not all negative, though, or I wouldn't be as generous with my rating. The textures and sounds in the game are really well done, the look is gorgeous, and the random "events" that take place are often interesting, and go on for a few days or a week. The music is a rework of the original movie score, with occasional hip flourishes of techno or heavy-guitar runs. The game has a high price of admission, but at least it pays off: 256MB of videocard and 2GB of RAM will actually improve the quality of the game. And because the world is partially instanced on your machine, lag can sometimes have a way of working itself out. Just the same, beware of those system requirements: I had a machine that met the minimum, but after one patch, the game booted me and refused to continue, saying my hardware was "unsupported".

With some some adjustment to lower the difficulty for the first 25 levels or so, Sony could have itself a decent MMORPG. It's also the only game I've played where style and fashion hold an important role--oddly enough, both male and female players place an emphasis on how you look and what you've got on. Sony, give us your kid gloves a bit longer through the journey, and this'll be a good game.

Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 45
Date: May 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Watch out. I bought this at (...), and when I attempted to install it, it proclaimed in a somewhat demeaning fashion, "WRONG DISK INSERTED." Bullsh*t, I said, it was disk 2. I called the Customer Service place and asked to speak to the highest ranking guy there. He said, "Oh. Ummm... yeah. We've heard of this happening. That's a defective disk. You should return it." I do so, and get another defective one. I call again. "Hmm. The store probably got a bad lot of them. You can send it to *whatever address it was* and they should fix it." Well, It's now been a month or two with no response let alone a replacement. I double-checked that I DID send it to the right address, and I did. Just be careful when you buy this. And if you're thinking of being an employee at SEGA/Monolith or whoever, be sure youre an ***hole, and that you dont mind sending ou screwed up CDs knowingly, then laughing at the poor SOB who wasted 50 dollars... I feel sad now...

Massisve Multiplayer Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the coolest Online experience I have ever had. As a Matrix fan this game is easily one of my all time favorites. It totally brings the movies to life. From the cool clothes to seeing Morpheus and the Merovingian on the streets and in the clubs. It's the game I have always wanted to play. I love running through the city, jumping from rooftop to rooftop and landing next to a phonebooth so I can use it to jack out of the Matrix just in the nick of time. IT'S INCREDIBLE!! Each organization is secretly plotting on the other and being in a faction makes me feel like i'm a part of the community. You can just feel something big is coming!. As a fan of the trilogy this game is simply a must have.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Matrix Online is not only a great game, but it actually has STORY - something no other MMO does. If you know anything at all about The Matrix movies, then this is the place for you. YOU get to take part in telling the future story of the Matrix though what you do in the game. I have already has contact with Morpheus and Niobe and even fought Agents...awesome!

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