The Matrix Online Launch Dates Announced

[tarey_g]

Monolith and Warner Bros. massively multiplayer extension of the hit film franchise to go live March 22nd in U.S. and April 8th in Europe.

Co-publishers Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and SEGA announced a release date for the massively multiplayer game based on the tremendously successful Matrix film franchise. The Matrix Online, developed by Monolith Productions, is slated to go live on March 22nd in the United States and April 8th in Europe. The game has been in beta test phase since last July and is currently undergoing a final shakedown prior to launch.

The Matrix Online begins directly after the conclusion of the motion-picture trilogy, and according to the developers, will continue the storyline with the players taking on the roles of newly awakened humans -- "redpills" in the game's fictional parlance. In order to remain as true as possible to the world created in the films, the development team has secured the voice talents of many of the film's actors including Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus), Monica Bellucci (Persephone), Mary Alice (The Oracle), and Lambert Wilson (The Merovingian). The continuing storyline of the game will be penned by writer Paul Chadwick, (noted for his Concrete series of graphic novels) under the supervision of the Wachowski brothers.



The company will also be releasing nine exclusive game trailers detailing the current storylines and motivations of the game's three principle protagonists. It is the interactions of these three factions -- the Machines, the Zionists, and the Exiles -- that is expected to provide most of the fictional structure for the game. The nine trailers also cross-reference each other and form part of a continuing story that will conclude in a longer trailer expected to hit movie theaters just prior to the game's release

- Gamespy

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But no flying Neo-style! Wonder if it will ever hit the Indian shores!
Btw, how many here are afficondos of turn based combat system?

[tarey_g]

the biggest prob is that the game is online so u need to be connected thru a good broadband connection to play the game.

[ctrl_alt_del]

I am able to play many online games such as CS1.6 and America's Army without much lag. And if the game is officially launched here, i guess it will be hoste don Indian servers. So I guess the game play will be smooth. But the point is...if it will be launched.

[tarey_g]

c_alt_del what connection u hav, pls specify.
if it is a broadband connec then which one u r using.

[ctrl_alt_del]

I have a 256k from Ortel Communication, Orissa's largest cable service provider.

[DKant]

Interesting. If it turns out to be successful (which I don't doubt), we could be in for a revolution in online gaming.

[QwertyManiac]

it'll be good if they suddenly find a bug that creates a smith and a neo so there will be an 1700000000 on 1 (neo) battle with us all as smith

OOps went too far i guess???????