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Enter the Matrix is the first video game based on the Matrix series. It was developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Atari and WB Interactive for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube game systems and for the PC. It reportedly cost over $30 million to make, one of the most expensive games ever developed. It sold one million copies in its first eighteen days and 2.5 million over the first six weeks. Enter The Matrix was simultaneously produced with The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

Overview

First released on 15 May 2003, the same day as The Matrix Reloaded
's North American release, Enter the Matrix gives players control of two of the minor characters in that film, Ghost and Niobe, members of the same group of rebels as Morpheus, Trinity and Neo. Niobe is the Captain of the Logos, the fastest ship in the rebel fleet. Ghost is the ship's weapons guru, and is a deep-thinking, philosophical assassin. The game takes place at roughly the same time as the events in The Matrix Reloaded; a character may walk out of a scene in the film, only to walk into a scene in the game. Like the films, the game features martial arts, firefights, driving and bullet-time. It also includes a "hacking system" that simulates the ability to hack into the Matrix by way of a simplified mimicry of DOS, exploring and unlocking secrets, weapons, maps and skills.

Connections to the films

Enter the Matrix was designed, like The Animatrix
, to be an integral part of the Matrix series. Many previous movies have been adapted as games, but in this case the game expands upon the story told in the films. Enter the Matrix includes two hours of live action 35mm film footage written and directed specifically for the game by the Wachowski brothers (and later included as part of "The Ultimate Matrix Collection" on the disc "The Matrix Reloaded Revisited"). The martial arts moves and in-engine cutscenes of the game feature actions captured directly from the films' actors and stunt doubles under the supervision of the series' fight scene choreographer Yuen Wo Ping.

The player learns that Neo is not the only target of Persephone's predilection toward trading kisses for esoteric information; Niobe and Ghost are both put into positions where they must submit to her whims in order to gain critical information that she offers them in return for their favors. Significant also to the continuity of the Matrix universe is the first appearance of actress Mary Alice in the role of the Oracle (Gloria Foster, the original actress, died of complications related to diabetes during the editing of The Matrix Reloaded). The game includes a film sequence specifically explaining her change of appearance as a result of an attack on her by the Merovingian, a malevolent character introduced in The Matrix Reloaded, appearing also in the game. Another film sequence reveals that the Merovingian's attack was facilitated by a sacrificial trade with the compassionate program Rama-Kandra. Allowed to occur by the Oracle, the Merovingian acquired the deletion codes for the Oracle's external "shell" and in exchange, he gave Rama-Kandra's daughter Sati her freedom and safety in the Matrix, despite her lack of purpose in the machine world.

Characters

Aside from Ghost and Niobe, there are numerous secondary characters in Enter The Matrix.

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Movies - Enter the Matrix

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