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24 Hours In The Matrix

Posted by Zonk on from the jackburn dept.

Both E! Online and Gamespy have looks at the most recently launched Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying game, The Matrix Online. From the Gamespy article: "Since the close of the beta, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that it has employed a troupe of 20-odd people whose job it will be to enact narrative scenarios in The Matrix Online live. These people will assume the roles of popular characters, interact with players, and generally move the stories in ways that only live "actors" can."

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  1. Tough choice by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 3, Funny

    E! Online and Gamespy... hard to say which company's game reviewing I respect most...

  2. Good and bad... by tha_mink · · Score: 3, Funny

    While it sounds like a cool job...imagine trying to explain to your non-computer related friends and family what you do for a living. It's almost like working in one of those costumes at Disney_World...

    "You see...I am an actor in an online game which was made from a movie...aw...forget it"

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    1. Re:Good and bad... by Meagermanx · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm just thinking of all the resumes they must be getting right now: "Hello, I'm a thirteen year old with plenty of experience in boh the MMO communities, and the RPG communities, and..."

  3. After reading this, I can say but one thing. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Whoa..."

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    1. Re:After reading this, I can say but one thing. by JNighthawk · · Score: 5, Funny

      And 10,000 Matrix Online players simultaneously say "I know kung fu."

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  4. Re:Interaction.. by Meagermanx · · Score: 3, Funny

    While that would work, and is a good idea, I had kind of pictured an actor making speeches and stuff. You know, rallying troops, staging battles, stuff like that. Or if they just walked around, you could just have them talk to a few lucky people. So you would be saying "So, did I tell you I talked to Neo? He kept saying 'whoa'. It was weird." And your friend would be like "Really? Cool. I saw Trillian once."

  5. Re:I KNOW KUNG FU! by larsoncc · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the last time, NO, you DON'T. /Trebek

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  6. Re:Game score - 1, Redundant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The movies HAD a point?!?!?!?

  7. Re:Interaction.. by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

    *ducks as an elephant on a surfboard shoots across his room*

    STOP THAT!

  8. Re:I KNOW KUNG FU! by MatthewNewberg · · Score: 3, Funny

    They day is mine, Trebek. http://www.eonline.com/On/Snl/VideoGallery/

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  9. Huh? by SwimsWithTheFishes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't understand, what is the Matrix?

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  10. Nothing Changes by SwimsWithTheFishes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I keep hitting RELOAD but its just the same thing over and and over. Why can't I get this Matrix to reload?

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  11. Re:Crafting (Coding) in MxO is horrible! by randomblast · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it just me, or is this "coding system" a little stupid...
    It's like having a game about sex...

    (19:57) OI! Shag me!
    (19:57) OK
    (19:58) *You have both attained nakedness*
    (20:02) *You have reached orgasm*
    (20:03) *She has reached orgasm*
    The End.

    It's like... it's an abomination to sex, like this is an abomination to real coding!

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