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Enter the Matrix

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Shiny Entertainment
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Fighting, Driving
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Summary
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? Enter the Matrix features awesome gunplay and spectacular martial arts that bend the rules of the Matrix, insane driving and stunts, and the chance to pilot the fastest hovercraft in the fleet. This game isn't just set in the Matrix universe - it's an integral part of the entire Matrix experience, with a story that weaves in and out of The Matrix: Reloaded, the sequel to the Academy Award-winner. Enter the Matrix is the story-behind-the-story. [Infogrames]
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix, The
GAMES: The Matrix: The Path of Neo
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Game Informer
The Matrix vibe is in full effect, and I can give you my personal guarantee that you won't be able to put it down until you've seen all the new footage. [June 2003, p.100]
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]
Games Radar UK (Pre-2006)
Yet another licence that fails to deliver in the same way as its celluliod counterpart but a tasty, violent adventure nonetheless. [PSM2]
Read Full Review >PSX Nation
Every single kung-fu move that I had hoped I could perform, I can. Every single slow motion cinematic I had hoped would be present, certainly is. And every single story detail I could have hoped for is present and accounted for.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
Seems to split its aim between hardcore "Matrix" fans and experienced gamers; if you find yourself with a foot in both camps, you may well find this one of the most faithful movie-to-game experiences in recent memory.
Read Full Review >Maxim Online
The game is by no means a weak attempt to cash in on a franchise...Gamers not only get tons of extra movie action but also get to run, kick, and shoot in a fully realized Matrix universe.
Read Full Review >GameShark
Hardcore Matrix fans will definitely love this game and find it everything they expected. For everyone else, ETM won't be anything more than an average game that seems too similar to many other titles already out there.
Read Full Review >TotalGames.net
When we hear the words movie and license we automatically start sharpening knives. In this case we were to busy moistening to the sight of total and unashamed gun-porn to want to draw blood. Yes, we feel ashamed.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
Wants to be so many different games that it doesn't excel at any one of them. [13 June 2003]
IGN
A decent game... The fundamental flaw with this game is that it looks and feels slightly unfinished, from the unpolished textures to the bad camera and sparse level design.
Read Full Review >GamingTrend
That's the key problem with Enter the Matrix...it feels so 2+ years ago.
Read Full Review >Game Over Online
While the original plot and movie footage are an interesting look into the backstory between The Animatrix, Reloaded and the original film, the lackluster action, replayability and glitches severely hamper this title from truly being great.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >Gamer.tv
Fans of action titles are almost certainly also big fans of The Matrix, and will be disconcerted by such a pallid tie-in.
Read Full Review >GameZone
Due to repetitive and extremely linear gameplay and an overall lack of polish, Enter the Matrix ends up being not all it could have been.
Read Full Review >Cinescape
While Enter the Matrix ties in really well with the movie franchise, it isnt much of a game.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
Take the red pill. And by "take," I mean "rent." [Aug 2003, p.96]
Armchair Empire
A prime example of a good idea gone bad. If it werent for the annoying controls and the ho-hum nature of the game it would actually have been pretty good, but as it stands unless you are a huge fan of the movies this game isnt worth buying.
Read Full Review >PSM Magazine
Hand-to-hand combat within the game requires zero skill. [Aug 2003, p.31]
GamePro
Lovers of Le Matrix should play just to see all the official Wachowski peripheral story stuffits really quite cool, and actually adds to the storybut the PS2 game was jacked out of its own development Matrix too early.
Read Full Review >All Game Guide
Fans of "The Matrix: Reloaded" will want to jack in for the stylish focus moves and original movie footage that fleshes out the events depicted in the film. Everyone else, however, will want to pull the plug and run to the nearest exit.
Read Full Review >Gamestyle
The main problem beyond the visual execution is the poor overall level design, which is one dimensional and linear.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
In more than 20 years of playing games, I have never seen a console game as obviously unfinished and rushed to market as Enter the Matrix...This game is a complete mess, and that's the only complete thing about it. [Aug 2003, p.114]
Game Revolution
The PS2 version is the ugliest, with the Gamecube a close second and the Xbox looking the best, but even the green machine version won't be winning any awards.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
It is blighted on so many levels by the blundering stupidity of its malformed stillborn design that recommending it is beyond us. The blue pill never looked so tasty.
Read Full Review >GMR Magazine
As passive entertainment, ETM isn't bad...As interactive entertainment (as a game, that is), this Matrix is quite simply spectacularly average. [Aug 2003, p.76]
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.
Read Full Review >GamingWorld X
If anything is to be learned here, it's that the Wachowski Brothers are not gamers -- this title is proof of it. If they really were, they would never have allowed this mediocre title to have been released. The game is buggy, has bad graphics, and terrible controls.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 79 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Rogue gave it a9:
It is a very good game! It is full of action packed kung-fu moves, just like in the movie!
gwGRWwG R. gave it a10:
I WOULD GIVE the game a stinkin 16 if i could.
Robin V. gave it a 10:
It's a TOP game, finaly you can play the matrix by yourself!
Ryan M. gave it a 6:
the most horrendous thing about this game is the camera angles. it completely takes you out of the experience when your stuck behind walls and the camera's flippin all over the place. the extra content is cool, but the gameplay is what really matters. And in Enter the Matrix, the gameplay sucks. A true disappointment.
Nath P. gave it a 10:
This Game Is Sweet!
Kevin F. gave it a 3:
Very poor game.
Msquared - gave it a3:
An awesome game with awesome visuals and awesome game mechanics, combined with a near-perfect rendition of Matrix-like effects and feeling, let down by a poor control system. The PS2 has two directional controls on the controller, yet Enter the Matrix uses the L2 and R2 buttons to control "strafing" (moving sideways without changing the direction you are facing). The right analog stick is wasted on the "camera mode" control: move any direction to switch in and out of 1st-person. This could have been relegated to a single button, rather than waste a directional control (which could have been used for strafing). To make matter worst, you can't even change the controls. In 1st-person mode you are stuck with aircraft-style Y-axis (push up to look down and vice versa). This is not even a configurable option, either. The final nail in this game's coffin for me was that the more you get into the game the more you realise you need strafing to survive and to take out difficult enemies. Combine that with a control system that doesn't map easily to hand movements, and that spells frequent death for your player character. Also an irritation is that whenever you go into the pause-game menu (and you have to do so frequently to read the tips supplied throughout the game) the in-game music stops, which is very jarring and interrupts the Matrix-like atmosphere that the game otherwise maintains quite well (poor controls notwithstanding). Visuals: 10 Audio: 7 (10 for style, -3 for interrupting while paused) Controls: 1 Gameplay: 5 (10 for faithful Matrix style, -5 for poor controls) Final score: 3 I give this game three as a final score because control is critical in a real-time first-person game. Contrast to Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, where you rarely have to think about what button to press to do something. Simple controls make for enjoyable gameplay. If you can not sufficiently control your player character, you are dead in the water.
