March 20, 2005
Matrix Online hires actors for key roles
I love this site for game reviews, they are the most honest you'll ever find. Why am I talking about games? Well you know I've talked before about the blurring line between games and movies, and I think this game is probably one of the most obvious games that is doing this is The Matrix Online.
The game allows you to enter as a character who has taken a red pill and is trying to maintain the peace between humans and the computer world. Which quite frankly baffles me. Why would the humans let other humans be kept by the machines and used as battries. Anyway...
The story is that they have been hiring actors to take some of the lead influential roles to control the storyline and organise large events.
The "specialised Role Playing Live Events Team" will give players the chance interact with characters from the films...The team will also be responsible for engineering large scale story events, such as rallies, riots and even street parties. They'll support events organised by players too, and will take part in high-profile missions and contests.
Mix this with the previous news that the major characters from the trilogy will be used throughout, and it really is a step closer to being in the movie.
Testing is ongoing and US release is in a few weeks, with the European release the start of next month. This will really tell us how close the experience is.
Is there anyone out there that's a tester and can tell us if it is close to being in the movie?
Posted by at March 20, 2005 03:39 AM
Comments
Posted by: Sean at March 20, 2005 01:34 PM
all the problems with the 2 sequels, and your stuck on why humans would let other humans be used as batteries?
Posted by: bigwig at March 20, 2005 07:21 PM
Chears Sean, I'll check it out when it appears.
Bigwig - well that's the whole premise of the Matrix, that they keep the humans in and use them as batteries, if not for that there would be no Matrix so it is kind of the single foundation stone. So why don't the humans keep fighting to release everyone and thereby end the Matrix?
The whole thing is revolving around keeping the peace inside and outside the Matrix and relies on freed humans allowing other humans to remain in the Matrix and used as power.
That key foundation doesn't work, and hence all the problems above that don't matter as the whole thing collapses.
Posted by: Richard at March 21, 2005 02:59 PM
I've also played the beta, it's a fun game play, but I can only imagine what it will be like with the Live events...ooooh man I can't wait ::Hugs money tightly:: I got me enough for the game and four months...if I don't want to eat for four months....
Posted by: Xun Shin at March 22, 2005 06:41 AM
I just played the sneak preview beta last week. I didn't get to experience any of the live events you're talking about where the movie characters are played by actors, but I did do a mission where you meet up with Niobe and Ghost and they just delivered some pre-scripted dialogue.
The game isn't as cinematic as you might hope as far as being "inside the movie" because it's an MMORPG and it's tough to do cool camera effects while handling network lag, etc. But they did a good job of capturing the feel of the Matrix universe I think. Anyways, I'll have a full review up at Spacejunk.org this week if anyone wants to read more.