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Enter the Matrix pc Game Reviews
Enter the Matrix
Critic Score
Metascore: 58 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.9 out of 10
based on 21 reviews
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Merciless Agents stalk your every move. You'll dodge their bullets. Defy gravity. Break all the rules. Explore the hidden depths of the massive dreamworld that has enslaved the human race. How far down does the rabbit hole go? Are you ready to find out? Are you ready to Enter the Matrix? The game stars all of the key characters from The Matrix Reloaded (likeness and voice over), including Neo (Keaanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith), Ghost (Anthony Wong), Sparks (Lachy Hulme) and Persephone (Monica Bellucci.) [Infogrames]

PUBLISHER: Atari
DEVELOPER: Shiny Entertainment
GENRE(S): Action, Adventure, Fighting, Driving
PLAYERS: 1
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2003

What The Critics Said

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91
Gamezilla!
I've never seen a game based on a popular film that was so good. Fighting, focus, guns, explosions, agents, oh my!
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83
Play Magazine
All is not perfect in Enter the Matrix, but for its few flaws, the game delivers what it is meant to: a very convincing experience inside The Matrix that looks, smells, and feels like... The Matrix. [July 2003, p.76]
80
Maxim Online
Gamers not only get tons of extra movie action but also get to run, kick, and shoot in a fully realized Matrix universe.
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77
Game Over Online
If they hadn’t rushed this game to match the release of the movie, if they had ditched the driving, if they had cleaned up the camera a little, if they had given me the targeting ability of every other first person shooter in existence, and if they had let me play as one or more of the major characters rather than just a couple of second bananas, then they would have really had something.
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75
Entertainment Weekly
Wants to be so many different games that it doesn't excel at any one of them. [13 June 2003]
70
2404.org
An average game, but I really like the film footage.
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70
Cincinnati Enquirer
Enter the Matrix isn't a perfect slice of interactive entertainment, but it does provide at least a dozen hours of action-packed fun and serves as a clever vehicle to expand on the events in "The Matrix Reloaded."
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66
IGN
The action, from top to bottom, may be built on a foundation made of stylish maneuvers, cool martial arts, and slick gunplay. But when you try and jam all of that into a poorly performing beast of a game with some atrocious mechanics and an utterly agonizing camera, it just loses most of that appeal.
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63
GameSpot
The game's story isn't strong enough to stand on its own, and the gameplay simply doesn't save it, making the game worth a look for hard-core fans of The Matrix films, but a buggy disappointment for just about anyone else.
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61
PC Format
It works, and it’s playable, but its remarkable fighting isn’t enough to pull it out of the mire labelled average.
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59
ActionTrip
ETM has a solid combat system that's addictive at times, but the game doesn't offer any gripping features that might increase its replayability. Also, it's mostly linear throughout the entire course of the plot.
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55
PC Gamer
Take away the Matrix setting, and you're left with an action game that really does nothing new - and looks pretty average doing it. [Aug 2003, p.64]
53
GameSpy
You barely exchange two sentences to Trinity, and she ignores almost everything you say in favor offering pre-scripted responses before quickly dumping you back to the hacking interface.
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50
GamePro
The more you play this half-baked sack of pixels, the more you become convinced that there is no The Matrix game, and the only thing being played here is you.
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50
Four Fat Chicks
For the inability to save at any point, for obtuse camera and fighting controls, for subpar level design, for irritating crash and sound bugs, and for the failure to make any effort to improve the technology behind this console port, “Matrix” enjoys the dubious distinction of a Rotten Egg award.
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50
Computer Gaming World
Play it for the movies, don't play it for the play. [Aug 2003, p.84]
40
FiringSquad
While everything does slow down in Focus mode, you appear to be in multiple places at the same time, and the camera can’t handle this. It jerks all over the place, inducing first frustration, then nausea, and finally “Who the hell cares?” as you give up and click the punch and kick buttons as fast as possible while pushing the mouse all over the place.
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40
TotalGames.net
Less of the ‘groundbreaking title’ Infogrames claimed it would be and more… well, crap. We’d suggest renting it at best – and that’s only if you’re absolutely desperate to see what you’re not missing.
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40
Armchair Empire
The fighting sequences had little snap in the punches, the storyline had few surprises, and the world of the Matrix didn’t leave enough to the imagination.
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40
Computer Games Magazine
It makes the mistake of being repetitive and, worse of all, boring. [Aug 2003, p.86]
33
Gaming Age
The implementation here is nearly a complete waste, considering the richness of the universe involved. Lousy controls, sterile and anemic environments, and weaksauce driving environments all pull down the good work done in the sound, character graphics and new footage departments.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

T. F. gave it a6:
A bit rough around the edges. Definately does not live up to the hype. Still, fun to play for the first few levels.

Emilio V. gave it a 10:
This is a great game it would be even better if it had trinity morpheus and neo off course you can get the cheats for them but they dont work.

Bird Dawg gave it a 10:
This game is...well simplt put...amazing. If you liked the MAtrix Reloaded then this game is a must. Oh ya, one more thing, FOCUS

M. Wright gave it a 9:
This game Is awesome. Good gameplay,etc. good game all around.

Brad D. gave it a 2:
What a let down! I bought this game thinking it would be like Max Payne on fire w/ ninja monkeys chasing after me with big deadly knives but instead I waited almost 2 years for this piece of garbage! This game should suffer the same fate as E.T. for Atari 2600 but b/c of all the fat Matrix fan-dorks we have to watch people rot their brains over this!

Matt A. gave it a 7:
Yeah, dodgy round the edges, would have liked the real characters, but still, those moves are so funky!

Neo The One gave it a 10:
This game rocks!!! Beating up badasses, focus, rescuing fellow comrades, focus, driving levels, focus, figting bosses as well as vampires, focus, tons of weapons and focus!!!! What could be more FUN than this?!!!

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