24 Hours In The Matrix

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."

Comments

Tough choice

[Chris Pimlott]

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

Good and bad...

[tha_mink]

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"

After reading this, I can say but one thing.

[AtariAmarok]

"Whoa..."

Re:After reading this, I can say but one thing.

[JNighthawk]

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

Re:Interaction..

[Meagermanx]

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."

Re:I KNOW KUNG FU!

[larsoncc]

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

Re:I KNOW KUNG FU!

[MatthewNewberg]

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