The Matrix Online

[Saph]

glad to see finished, it has turned into a great review. Very in depth and informative.

I thought you'd rate higher on gameplay and story lol, but I assume they had something to do with the demise of the game.

But anyway great review!

Thanks to everyone for giving this a chance I know its an odd review since the game does not exist anymore, but it was very special to alot of people, me included, and I just like to share

@Linux: The game really did suck if you didnt come for the community, for example(I didnt add this in the review cause it wasnt really too important):

The missions were completed f'd up(pretty much your main source of experience)

You had several forms of missions:

Normal Missions
Critical Missions(explained)

Normal Missions had several types, such as Rescue, Assassination, Decoy, courier etc. The mission type name really depicts what the mission involves.

You can choose how long you wanna do the mission:

Short
Medium
Long

The longer it is, the more experience upon completion.

You can choose the difficulty:

Easy
Medium
Hard

The harder it is, the more experience upon completion.



Here's the kicker: These 'normal' missions are repeats, There is 1 normal mission for each mission type, the ONLY difference from the missions is it might be in a new building, the same characters, but with different names.

To put this into perspective, here's the normal mission layout(I know it by heart to this day cause I did the same thing several thousands of time to reach level 50...). This is if you for example have chosen a long, hard, assassination mission:

1) Get your main mission Objective, assassinate Viena.
2) Get your first clue, travel to the destination building and go to the indicated floor.
3) Kill the guards
4) Find the guard who holds the key and loot it
5) Get your second clue, travel to the destrination building and go to the indicated floor.
6) Kill the guards
7) Put the disc clue in the computer(or simply hack it if you're a hacker)
Get the info on your snitch, travel to the destination building and go to the indicated floor.
9) Get the location of your target from the snitch.
10) Travel to the destination building and go to the indicated floor.
11) Kill the guards.
12) Kill the target
13) Mission completed.


This is the layout for every single long assassination mission, short and medium are identical, but maybe the clues and the snitch etc. are taken out, a short assassination mission for example is simply to go to the building, kill the guards, then the target, grats, mission completed, have some exp and $info! The only difference might be that the buildings you go to are different, and the name of your target is different, and the guards look different, thats it.

So needless to say the missions part is too repetetive to do after getting level 50, most people never even get to level 50 cause they go insane from the same damned thing over and over again! >.< I had to take several weeks long breaks during my sprint to level 50 cause I started getting migranes.