User Rating: 8.8 | Enter the Matrix PC
Reviewed on an Alienware 1.5 P4 with 384meg of RDRAM (800), and a GeForce 3 64meg 3D card. Pros: ---- Nice graphics and exceptional sound (if you have decent surround speakers you're really in for a treat). Enjoyable contextually sensitive fighting system and huge variety of fighting moves. An immersive game that at times perfectly captures the feeling of being one of the characters from the Matrix movies! The interface is simple yet fairly intuitive and the game has a helpful directional arrow to point you in the right direction for objectives if you get stuck. Some supposed 'expert PC gamers' will undoubtedly grouse about this feature making the game 'too easy' but I thought it was a great feature. Cons: ---- Camera control is a little spotty when things get hectic. Also I did notice the occasional slight slowdown in framerate when there were a lot of people and action on screen but in all fairness that could possibly have been a misinterpretation on my part due to the Bullet Time effect. For some people (myself included) the camera and player motion may cause slight nausea from the perspective shifts and movement in general. I'd like to see the bullet trails last a bit longer while in Focus/Bullet Time mode, but that's a niggling complaint at best. All in all you'll definitely get your money's worth and enjoy this game. Is it a contender for game of the year? Probably not but it's definitely one of the funner fighting/action games released this year for the PC. 
