/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9507379
I've played the Xbox version in my childhood and remember having a blast with it. Does it still hold up? It's probably been 17 years since I've last played it.

>>9507473
It's slop. Plays and looks worse than Max Payne despite releasing later and targetting better hardware. Anything Matrix beyond the first film and Animatrix is also bad.

>>9507479
It's obvious the game was rushed in development to meet the Matrix Reloaded theatrical release, and it shows.

This is my pick for bad game that I still enjoy.

>>9507553
yea, I remember seeing a behind-the-scenes preview before release and they recorded alternate dialogue takes so that each playthrough would be different

When I bought the game this feature was not there.

really boring and repetitive, shitty levels, graphics aren't good, cutscenes were pretty cool

>>9507479
>Anything Matrix beyond the first film and Animatrix is also bad

I unironically enjoy the sequels and didn't hate Path of Neo either though I admit they're all deeply flawed. The sequels have high highs but deteriorate into cringy b-tier sci-fi far too often which the 1st movie managed not to do and

Path of Neo should have been the tie-in game to begin with. Making a game based around fucking Niobe instead of the star of the film with all the cool powers was retarded, it's like if they released a Spider-Man game where you played as Mary Jane. I Know that the idea was to supplement the main story but people don't buy tie-in games for deep lore and side characters, they want to play through the favorite parts of the movie. There was no part of Enter the Matrix when I thought "wow, I'm glad we got to see what Niobe was doing instead of being Neo, this sewer level is sooo much more interesting than the Burly Brawl or the Chateau fight"

>>9507379
If you had fun back then, play now through an emulator and remap the controls properly. Pure kino.

>>9507379
Correct take OP. Had a fun time when I rented it, felt cool to do the slow motion stuff and jump around. Have no desire to ever play again

>>9507379
It's fun for about 20 minutes then you realize you've seen all the moves already and now just watch the samed canned animations over and over. i dont think i finished this game...didnt it have some weird satirical final boss or something? i also remember the weird "hacking" which was basically just finding keywords in columns of garbage text or something

>>9509054
Wrong matrix game

This game was my fucking jam back in the day. The hand to hand fighting was great, same with the wall running and flips and shit to dodge bullets, but man it's pretty fucking rough otherwise. The graphics are dogshit, it's glitchy as hell, the tank controls are awful in a game based on a movie featuring characters that are quick and impossibly athletic.
I'm also salty about the two character system. The airport is kino because you really are playing the same story twice from two totally different perspectives, where every other level is almost exactly the same regardless of who you choose.
Fun game, so much missed potential.

>>9507473
>Does it still hold up?
it never held up

>>9509054
On PC, the hacking was like using a command line prompt, which is exactly how it should be. I didn't finish it because the bosses were tedious and pattern based instead of being cool kungfu beat'em'up action.

It's worth a replay but only while stoned.

>>9507379
I liked it when it came out.
I could not figure out why everyone else hated it.
Now that time has passed you end up with people saying it's a good game.

It was an arcade shooter with loads of gun, style, and neat lore that adds to the movie a little bit.
You could even do epic l33t hackerman things on a gamecube controller to run files via cli.

It's not a 5/5 but somewhere between a 3 and a 4. some sections were ass and annoying.

>>9507379
>>9507473
>>9507479
>>9510381

>rental.

Grampa its 2022. This game is a Jagged mess now. The only thing different from the sea of other shit third person shooters from the time is the hacking minigame.

The box art is pretty sweet tho.

>>9511598
>Jagged
not on my tv

Lana Wachowski is my favorite racist ^_^

>>9512003
>Lana Wachowski
Not retro

>>9512003
Not that I doubt it, but the (actual) lady that accused the Wachowskis of ripping her off also accused James Cameron of ripping Terminator 2 off her. She just thinks she invented the idea of women in sunglasses and tank tops shooting robots.

I never played Path of Neo, should I bother? What does it emulate best on, etc?

Outside of Max Payne and to a lesser degree it's sequel this is one of the only 6th gen third person shooters worth going back to today

>>9512019
lmao

>>9510381
It does on an emulator with remaped control scheme.
Truly the most matrix kino experience in a video game

>>9512025
Currently playing the path of Neo on aethersx2 and it runs great.
I like the fighting mechanics and that it follows the movie but I'm not fond of the padding levels.
Fighting giants ants as Neo feels off to me.
Anyway it's better than enter the matrix.

>>9508179
>play now through an emulator
Is the PC version that much of a pain to get running on 64-bit systems?

>>9511598
I'm agreeing with you, the game sucks
>third person shooter
what
>>9512221
anon, I played it when it came out, 4 cds, it's one of the most broken abominations that I had the pleasure of playing and in the era in which I played any garbage

I remember thinking it was odd that black was fire weapon.
Luckily my madcat controller made it super easy to push black with the heel of my thumb.
I have fond memories of messing around with the hacking and the test room.
Only got the game to crash once there, I remember it was neat too how the crash just said tell sparks about a problem with the room.

>>9507379
I had fun with it too

>>9507379
All I remember is werewolves and a car fighter game hidden by hacking.

>>9507479
Was the MMO shit too? I always wanted to play it as a kid then I found out they killed Morpheus in it which was canon apparently

>>9507379
i loved the idea that the cheatcodes were you sort of hacking a mainframe putting in proper commands to do it. there was so much to love about this game

my cousin and I rented this. it fucking glitched and we couldn't complete it.

>>9513214
Having unlimited bullet time was so fun

>>9507379
Never bothered with finishing it because the pc port was absolute trash

>>9512019
based

>>9508050
I too enjoy the sequels. I feel like people who don't like the sequels only enjoy the spectacle of the first and have their eyes glaze over when the guns stop firing.

>>9507379
It ran unusually well on the gamecube and I completely agree.

>>9507379
The game is janky as absoloute fucking hell but I like it regardless. The "hacking" stuff was really cool.

>>9508050
>>9514702
I thought Reloaded was dumb as fuck but in a really cool and fun way until that part at the end with the architect. Revolutions was so bad it was funny by the end.

>>9509054
You're thinking of the path of neo, which was complete shit. ETM was at least flawed in a kind of interesting way.