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The Matrix Online Announced
Thanks to Blue's News for pointing to the new official website for The Matrix Online. This massively multiplayer PC title, where you get to live, explore and fight within the machine construct of The Matrix, is courtesy Warner Brothers and Ubi Soft, and is being developed by Monolith (of No-One Lives Forever and Tron 2.0 fame) for a 2004 release. IGN.com has more details, and a healthy, if sensible, skepticism until they see the game playable. Finally, this project is completely separate from Shiny/Atari's Enter The Matrix game that we covered a little while back, and which is shipping into stores about now.
Since we're now in the 'Make MMORPG's out of popular movies' trend, let me make a few suggestions based on some of the most popular movies of all time.
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
12 Angry Men
Singin' In The Rain
Let it die people... Let it die...
So, is this going to be the first MMORPG where you're _supposed_ to cheat?
"Wow, how'd you hit me?"
"I found a way to step outside the game... and install an aim-bot."
"Woah. Teach me."
A.
A single blue pill.
Yes, now you too can experience life first-hand in my Matrix online game. Fight, love, work, party -- all in an amazing virtual world so real you'll believe you're there! Startling graphics, real-world physics, and a seamless leveling system combine to make an experience you'll never forget.
To sign up, simply send me $49.95 and I'll ship you a rare and coveted red placeb^H^H^H^H^H^H pill. Ingest it and you're on your way to adventure!
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
maybe in that matrix i'll be able to get a job!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Don't believe that Animatrix stuff - this is how it really happens...
Everyone knows how addictive MMORPG's are, and the next major thing in gaming will likely be to increase the immersive aspects of it. Next we see some special "totally immersive sens-dep tanks" designed originally for (naturally) pr0n consumption, however they naturally find their way into the gaming community where they become very popular.
Soon.. everyone has one, and, due to an easily missed checkbox on a Microsoft designed acceptance of terms and conditions when installing the new Matrix MMORPG, users find that they actually no longer have the right to quit the game, and without their knowledge, their tank containing their body is shipped to an efficient storage area (which ingeniously uses the body heat of the player to power the gaming servers while decreasing lag due to the closer proximity to the server). Naturally given the pr0n functions of the tanks, many people decide they are better off in the system and due to the technical and biological developments in the real world, are able to breed. Naturally the children grow up knowing only the system and so do not even realise they are trapped in the Gatestrix.
End of the world, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together mass hysteria.
Fortunately for humanity a small group of Mac geeks refused to play the game citing reasons such as "I ain't buying no PC dude". Led by a black polonecked individual known only as "Jobseus" they fight for freedom.
This is their story.