The Matrix Online

[Entrail]

Just wondering who else owns and plays this game?

I bought it two weeks ago, pretty cheaply online (when you're getting it for near half the RRP, you can't complain) and gave my PC a windows reload beforehand. Installation wasn't a problem, neither was setting up an account. But getting into the main game (past the character creation and 'training' section) was a pain in the arse.

The System Resource requirments are high, for recommended settings. I barely scrape the RAM requirement for minimum settings. Yet, when loading up, the games graphics take at least 4 minutes to fully load and display, and even then it's jerky and unresponsive. It's good when the system starts getting into it, running around a city and not some fantasy land like in Everquest or WoW, and with some interaction with scenery (you can climb ladders, read the paper etc.)

When getting into a fight sequence, the graphic loading problem rears its ugly head again. I can't count how many time's I have died because my computer (and it's a decent enough computer) has struggled to load the data needed to create the fight sequences, and when it's finished, I'm lying on the floor in a heap, and a poxy lvl2 guard is lording it over me. it takes at least 2/3 situations like that before I can exter a fight sequence and there's little loading time. And when I get into it, the fighting is actually pretty good. The game was made for close fighting, and guns and long range fighting are just icing on the cake.

In terms of missions, the variety isn't great. You pick an organization, goto a building, and either kill everyone, or pickup something or someone and take it to another building, smacking someone sensless on the way. From what I've heard, in reviews and such, WB and Monolith are going to rely on live events to keep things interesting. They better do, really, because it does get boring when you're on your own, doing the same mission over and over =\

Overall, it's a good game. Not great, due to the lack of variety and the grpahical and system resource problems.

[KONDE'KI]

I own it... its not that bad, kind of a mixture between some other ones, but still good :iffy:


mine works just fine no problems at all. the problem's with your video card, that was my problem

[Sage]

I read it was pretty bad, got bad reviews. Only die-hard Matrix fans would enjoy it, and such.

[Ninja oph 1337]

Greetings! Im teh ninja oph 1337! ph33r meh 1337 n00b (ninja?) skillz!

I'm thinking about getting it, but I'm afraid that the game will be flooded with crappy Neo rip-offs. :fanboy:

I also don't think I can afford another MMO. :sad:

[plarf]

I played for a while and it bored me in about 15min of game play and I consider myself a hardcore matrix fan. I play FFXI and the grind and repition of that game is pretty steep. Matrix took it to a whole new lvl. I suggest not getting it and saving yourself the hassle.

[Prime Rib]

I betad it. What a huge pile of crap that was. Even beta was a waste of time.

[I Keel You Ded.]

I had a BAD experience with this. I went and bought the game. I heard the reqs were high, but my pc kicks some ass, it wouldn't be any problem at all. So I try to install it and I get a wrong disk error. I called monolith/sega whatever, adn they told me it was a defective disk. Ok, fine i exchange it and get another defective one. I call the guy again and he goes, "Oh... umm.... yeah.... That store got a bad shipment of them" o_o :wtf:
In other words they knew they sent out cratefuls of fucked up CDs... So now I can't trade it in (online) hell can't even sell it in a yard sale (my account key) So I'm royally fucked. Thanks, Sega. You just raped me up the ass for 50 dollars.

[NinjaStyle]

This game actually made me cry it was beautifully done all pretty and shiny and the interlock system was sexy as hell then about 3 days into i relized that the pretty colors where all it had to it. the gameplay is weak the combat is repetative even for a turnbased MMO, the character customization seems real deep till you start looking at it then you see it for the steaming pile of Sh** it is. The fact that you could learn everyskill in the game sounds great till you relize that because everyone with half a brain can do the overly simplistic crafting and that literally anyone with the cash to buy the skill can train it up and use it the player based economy becomes void. Why spend any $information(the games form of money) on a single skill when for just a little bit more you can become a crafter with the lvl needed to make it yourself.
For example: I was a lvl 23 Operative(read Warrior) i had chosen to focus on SMG skills a specific Branch in the Gunman(Archer/Ranger) tree. I had neglected to get a lvl 22 ability due to the fact that finding vendors after lvl 15 is down right a pain in the ass so i went to buy it from a player everyone i talked to said i needed a specific item to build it and then the lowest bid i got for the work was 250k $information. At which point i said screw it and spent 600k to maxing out the crafting tree neccesary for weapons(you dont lvl them like you would in any other game you just pay cash and the lvl increases).
This coupled with repetitive lvl design and horrible plot development even for an MMORPG really just made me teary eyed. I mean how do you screw up the matrix it's you versus like 10 of them and you just kick there butt....wrong. Fights that would take maybe 1 minute in any other game take 10 its just slow and repetative specially considering they said that there were over 4,000 unique moves isaw maybe 20 that just repeated in random order.

Sorry this was so long but i will do anything to keep people from having to suffer through even a single second of this overpriced POS.