The Matrix: The Path of Genocyde
Remember several months ago when I spoke of the game called Enter The Matrix? Well, after beating it with Ghost only to find that it's end was a trailer to The Matrix: Revolutions, I felt sort of bereft.
When Misty's Christmas gift for me arrived, I felt as though my insomnia problem was solved. And it was...most definitely so. I opened the package to find The Matrix: Path of Neo inside. It was just a terrible thing that I had to work and would not be able to install and play the game until I returned home. Once I did get home, I popped it into the system and prayed it would work.
Needless to say, I'm back to kicking Agent ass moreso now than ever. With Enter The Matrix, you may master the moves of Ghost or Naiobe but the problem is, you don't get to do Neo's Superman thing. Well, Ghost and Naiobe can take a backseat because this game is totally interactive. Sure, you can relive the movies to a degree but why do that? Especially if you're anything like me and you didn't like how those movies ended with Neo getting blinded, Trinity getting whacked and Neo offering himself as a sacrifice for saving Zion. If you had left it to me, Neo would have thoroughly brought forth The Holy Zion Smackdown on that dude that Smith infected. No blind shit. Neo would have whacked his ass right then and there because if Smith was trying to scare him, hell, there's nothing terrifying about a dead motherfucker. Second, ok, fine, wreck the Logos all you like but Trinity and Neo would have fucking lived. They'd probably never return to Zion after saving it but that's what would have made it awesome for The Matrix Online. You might just end up catching up to the two lovebirds in some sparring construct. Then again...if they ended up in the '70s Porn Construct...leave them alone.
Ok, back to the game. If you take the blue pill at the first of the game, you wake up at the desk with that numbshit alarm clock going off. Yay. Welcome to your bland ass life, Mr. Anderson but if you take the red pill, fight like all hell. Why? Because fighting in the elevator lobby is where you fend off waves of police, security guards (and surprise, surprise...they're better shots. Not by much...but they're better), SWAT, Soldier types, Agents and the more of these morons you pulverize, the more stuff you start the game out with.
After that, it's on to your dull life at the software place in your cube farm. Natch, you're getting a call from Morpheus and yes, you still have to do the escaping thing. Now, past a certain point, you can fight like hell to evade cops, agents, etc or you can opt to accept capture which I did simply because I was sick to death of having to restart that level when one of the agents would manage to snatch me up. Not even really into the game yet and already I have a record. Scenes from the movie are spliced up to recap the story and to bring you up to speed. Accept capture, you still end up free from the Matrix. If you manage to fight past them all, you get more shit to use...and you still end up free from the Matrix. Doesn't this game already reek of Destiny now?
Next are the training simulations. Successfully complete them as instructed and you get all kinda bonuses. The training simulations are nothing like the movie. You actually do square off in a dojo with Morpheus but I actually spent most of my time knocking the black off his bald ass. Yeah, this white boy can jump, bitch! Cowboy Curtis, eat your Jackie Chan Wannabe Heart out.
After kicking his ass a couple of times, you go to the next level...trying to reach the hardline phone before he does in an obstacle race. He kicked my ass at that, hands down but not before I knocked him to the point where he looks like a bald Michael Jackson.
Then, it's on to the actual missions. The first is the Oracle, but it isn't the meeting that's interesting, it's what happens after that. You have to find what they call "The Wetwall"...that's the wall where all the pipes are so you can escape out the sewer. Get past that and it's straight to rescuing Morpheus. Fight through the police of all types at the lobby, into the elevator, up the shaft, on the rooftop where Agents appear (oh joy!) and then, into the chopper to otherwise start shooting up shit with the chaingun. After Morpheus' successful rescue, guess what...yep...time to beat the green outta that cheap suit Hugo Weaving is wearing. First thing you gotta do is beat him until he falls off the platform and, if you time it right, the train will hit him but, just like the movie, he gets out when the next train pulls in. Resilient fucker, ain't he?
Now what happens next is something that WASN'T in any of the movies except by mention. Remember when they talked about Ghosts? Well you end up on sort of a ghost train. What it is is some corrupted coding and you momentarily disappear...the operator aboard the Nebuchadnezzar can't find you. Why? You're on a ghost train? When you get off it's an all-out ass haul to the nearest "hardline" which is where you pick up a ringing phone and make your exit. Still, going only SLIGHTLY true to film, you still get to kill Agent Smith and beat the holy codepiss out of his two cheap-suited, cheesy-shaded, McDonald's-earpiece-wearin cohorts. For the game, they've upped the ante by letting YOU choose Neo's Path. Does he become The One who saves Zion from ultimate destruction at the hands of the Machines or does he just stay Thomas Anderson? Well...I like the former, really so let's move on.
Now, as the levels progress, depending on how well you do, you get all kinda nifty abilities, principles, upgrades, etc. So as you progress, you kick more ass. By the time it gets to where the first movie ends and moves on to the second installment, then you're obviously decked out...shades and all and you get to choose from six different missions where you defend others who are slowly beginning to free themselves but aren't quite sure what the hell is going on. This game, so far has been an all-out slugfest and talk about wrecking shit...oh yeah, you can throw Agents into damaged electronics which will "kill" them, beat down entire SWAT teams like they stole your shades, utterly humiliate gun-toting soldiers who don't think your kung-fu will amount to jack shit and, the best part, save the lives and minds of others all while being hailed as something of a deity. Sounds like my kinda gig.
Now, I could do the whole thing quietly and slowly slip them through the grasp of the authorities but what fun is that? Uh-uh, Keanu...we ain't going down Neo's Path. It's gonna be loud, noisy, bloody and with much havoc, destruction and....pain....lots of pain and screaming and blood, guts, fingers and toes WOOOOOOOOO!
This is the Path of Genocyde.
When Misty's Christmas gift for me arrived, I felt as though my insomnia problem was solved. And it was...most definitely so. I opened the package to find The Matrix: Path of Neo inside. It was just a terrible thing that I had to work and would not be able to install and play the game until I returned home. Once I did get home, I popped it into the system and prayed it would work.
Needless to say, I'm back to kicking Agent ass moreso now than ever. With Enter The Matrix, you may master the moves of Ghost or Naiobe but the problem is, you don't get to do Neo's Superman thing. Well, Ghost and Naiobe can take a backseat because this game is totally interactive. Sure, you can relive the movies to a degree but why do that? Especially if you're anything like me and you didn't like how those movies ended with Neo getting blinded, Trinity getting whacked and Neo offering himself as a sacrifice for saving Zion. If you had left it to me, Neo would have thoroughly brought forth The Holy Zion Smackdown on that dude that Smith infected. No blind shit. Neo would have whacked his ass right then and there because if Smith was trying to scare him, hell, there's nothing terrifying about a dead motherfucker. Second, ok, fine, wreck the Logos all you like but Trinity and Neo would have fucking lived. They'd probably never return to Zion after saving it but that's what would have made it awesome for The Matrix Online. You might just end up catching up to the two lovebirds in some sparring construct. Then again...if they ended up in the '70s Porn Construct...leave them alone.
Ok, back to the game. If you take the blue pill at the first of the game, you wake up at the desk with that numbshit alarm clock going off. Yay. Welcome to your bland ass life, Mr. Anderson but if you take the red pill, fight like all hell. Why? Because fighting in the elevator lobby is where you fend off waves of police, security guards (and surprise, surprise...they're better shots. Not by much...but they're better), SWAT, Soldier types, Agents and the more of these morons you pulverize, the more stuff you start the game out with.
After that, it's on to your dull life at the software place in your cube farm. Natch, you're getting a call from Morpheus and yes, you still have to do the escaping thing. Now, past a certain point, you can fight like hell to evade cops, agents, etc or you can opt to accept capture which I did simply because I was sick to death of having to restart that level when one of the agents would manage to snatch me up. Not even really into the game yet and already I have a record. Scenes from the movie are spliced up to recap the story and to bring you up to speed. Accept capture, you still end up free from the Matrix. If you manage to fight past them all, you get more shit to use...and you still end up free from the Matrix. Doesn't this game already reek of Destiny now?
Next are the training simulations. Successfully complete them as instructed and you get all kinda bonuses. The training simulations are nothing like the movie. You actually do square off in a dojo with Morpheus but I actually spent most of my time knocking the black off his bald ass. Yeah, this white boy can jump, bitch! Cowboy Curtis, eat your Jackie Chan Wannabe Heart out.
After kicking his ass a couple of times, you go to the next level...trying to reach the hardline phone before he does in an obstacle race. He kicked my ass at that, hands down but not before I knocked him to the point where he looks like a bald Michael Jackson.
Then, it's on to the actual missions. The first is the Oracle, but it isn't the meeting that's interesting, it's what happens after that. You have to find what they call "The Wetwall"...that's the wall where all the pipes are so you can escape out the sewer. Get past that and it's straight to rescuing Morpheus. Fight through the police of all types at the lobby, into the elevator, up the shaft, on the rooftop where Agents appear (oh joy!) and then, into the chopper to otherwise start shooting up shit with the chaingun. After Morpheus' successful rescue, guess what...yep...time to beat the green outta that cheap suit Hugo Weaving is wearing. First thing you gotta do is beat him until he falls off the platform and, if you time it right, the train will hit him but, just like the movie, he gets out when the next train pulls in. Resilient fucker, ain't he?
Now what happens next is something that WASN'T in any of the movies except by mention. Remember when they talked about Ghosts? Well you end up on sort of a ghost train. What it is is some corrupted coding and you momentarily disappear...the operator aboard the Nebuchadnezzar can't find you. Why? You're on a ghost train? When you get off it's an all-out ass haul to the nearest "hardline" which is where you pick up a ringing phone and make your exit. Still, going only SLIGHTLY true to film, you still get to kill Agent Smith and beat the holy codepiss out of his two cheap-suited, cheesy-shaded, McDonald's-earpiece-wearin cohorts. For the game, they've upped the ante by letting YOU choose Neo's Path. Does he become The One who saves Zion from ultimate destruction at the hands of the Machines or does he just stay Thomas Anderson? Well...I like the former, really so let's move on.
Now, as the levels progress, depending on how well you do, you get all kinda nifty abilities, principles, upgrades, etc. So as you progress, you kick more ass. By the time it gets to where the first movie ends and moves on to the second installment, then you're obviously decked out...shades and all and you get to choose from six different missions where you defend others who are slowly beginning to free themselves but aren't quite sure what the hell is going on. This game, so far has been an all-out slugfest and talk about wrecking shit...oh yeah, you can throw Agents into damaged electronics which will "kill" them, beat down entire SWAT teams like they stole your shades, utterly humiliate gun-toting soldiers who don't think your kung-fu will amount to jack shit and, the best part, save the lives and minds of others all while being hailed as something of a deity. Sounds like my kinda gig.
Now, I could do the whole thing quietly and slowly slip them through the grasp of the authorities but what fun is that? Uh-uh, Keanu...we ain't going down Neo's Path. It's gonna be loud, noisy, bloody and with much havoc, destruction and....pain....lots of pain and screaming and blood, guts, fingers and toes WOOOOOOOOO!
This is the Path of Genocyde.
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