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Digital Foundry: Enter The Matrix: 2003 Retro Time Capsule PC vs Original Xbox - A Truly Hilarious PC Port
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... that's not really how I remember it
I only rented it for a weekend and I think it crashed my gamecube 4 times
I played it on Xbox a few months after release. I remember hearing the horror stories about how buggy and unfinished the game was.
With those lowered expectations, I didn't think the game was that bad. I haven't played it in nearly 20 years, maybe my opinion would be different today.
With those lowered expectations, I didn't think the game was that bad. I haven't played it in nearly 20 years, maybe my opinion would be different today.
Yeah, I have a specific memory of the heartbreak of that game crashing at the exact same spot every time we played it on our GameCube lol
That was roughly my experience, too. It wasn't anything great, but I remember thinking it wasn't nearly as bad as a lot of people made it out to be
Hilarious video. I lost it when Alex's car got turned around and stuck on geometry... during the scripted car chase sequence... How is that even possible?
Now that I think about it I have vague recollections but I never played it or saw people play it or even saw footage of it. This is literally the first time I see or think about the game since it was released I guess? I think I recall seeing an add for it back in the day. When this game came out I wasn't doing much gaming, so it totally skipped me by.
No no no, you have to see it in motion for full immersion!
Back then this game was pretty well known and hyped up even for adding footage exclusive to the game. The game was known for it's technical problems but it was crazy that it managed to do 720p and 1080i on the OG Xbox.
Those wheels were meant for DLSS, where the Square shape will be resolved by AI to a proper wheel.
Still a shame that the concept of a 3rd person game with a somewhat indepth melee combat + shooting system is super rare.
Just imagine uncharted with maybe a bit more melee options would be neat.
Just imagine uncharted with maybe a bit more melee options would be neat.
Especially uncharted 4 can almost be played like max Payne with slow mo cheat.
I have very fond memories of this game despite how janky it was. Thankfully I was playing it on console, as that PC version looks rough haha.
I never got around to playing Path of Neo...
We are definitely in need of a new modern Matrix game.
I never got around to playing Path of Neo...
We are definitely in need of a new modern Matrix game.
this clip got the biggest laugh from me
"show her how far gaming has come since enter the matrix"
"show her how far gaming has come since enter the matrix"
this clip got the biggest laugh from me
"show her how far gaming has come since enter the matrix"
When people say terrible PC port stuff like this is what I think of. Make me smile when people freak out when a PC port doesn't have unlocked frame rates or something today. We have come so far.
I'd love to see a comparison like this of RE4 with the new HD mod vs the original awful PC port.this clip got the biggest laugh from me
"show her how far gaming has come since enter the matrix"
1080i would have looked better for us back then because we used to have a 480p/1080i rear projection set where 480p would exhibit some really visible ghosting but 1080i would appear extremely clean in comparison.
Me too, half the time I see horrible PC port impressions these days I come away thinking "oh, it works and performs fine? That's all I need".
I beat this game like a half a dozen times and have no memory of those climbing sections. Dude moves like DK in King of Swing!
I hadn't seen it in motion before and... even for 2003, those animations look hilariously bad. The running animation and the fights, and the way the camera swings wildly around, holy shit. I know this was nearly 20 years ago and I probably have some rose-tinted memories of how they actually looked, but surely games like Prince of Persia, Beyond Good & Evil, Splinter Cell or Metal Gear Solid 2 must have been so much better.
Even back then we all knew it looked bad. The running animation drove me nuts and I hardly every noticed that sort of thing at the time.
You didn't know, This part of the matrix features. A square tire is made through binary code.
They did look better but Enter The Matrix was closer to what the average game looked like back then. Games that had top tier animations for the 2001-2004 period all looked much better, but there were tons and tons of games that just looked awful on that front.
One of the only things I remembered about this game on the Xbox was how the Black button was used for shooting, so incredibly stupid, I don't know what they were thinking.
The other thing I remember is a level being so dark I could barely play it in my crappy old CRT. I think it was in the sewers or something.
The other thing I remember is a level being so dark I could barely play it in my crappy old CRT. I think it was in the sewers or something.
Ok, I thought I was going crazy for a second. Having played the PC version last year, both stories in fact, I didn't have any of the square tires or other model issues they were showing. But it being caused by one setting in particular tanking performance on age appropriate hardware would explain it.
That's because this isn't how the PC version usually looks. Alex explained he lowered the LoDs because on his period accurate PC he was getting framerate drops into the teens with normal LoDs.