This is exactly what avid fans of the matrix movie trilogy have been waiting for. Path of Neo lets the gamers play as one of the characters. If you have seen any of the Matrix series, you will know what to expect from this game, and if you haven?t, then don?t worry. Even though the pace is not as good as the movie, you can understand what is going on almost immediately.

This game takes gamers through many of the most popular scenes such as fighting hundreds of Agent Smiths, training with Morpheus, and various other ?Kodak? moments from the movies. There are some really exciting moments in the game. Unlike the last Matrix game, where you were restricted to play either as Niobe or Ghost, here you can very much play as Neo.

This means that as you progress through the game, you will acquire the same powers that was bestowed upon him in the movie. Some of these powers are really cool and useful to the gamers. For instance, code vision will allow gamers to see the Matrix in its pure coded form, and you will see hidden doorways, secrets and enemies hiding behind corners. Other powers include flight and ?bullet time?. This gives gamers the sense that they are in the Matrix and makes the game interesting.

Training levels teach you how to wield deadly tools of destruction. One thing that makes Path of Neo stand out is that there?s still a lot to do despite its narrow character focus. For instance, when Neo is trying to flee from agents at the start of the first movie, gamers don?t just have to worry about running from cubicle to cubicle before making it to an outside window ? now Neo?s escape is a lot more elaborate. He?ll have to shimmy across various ledges, avoid agents and police officers next to construction zones, and sprint down several flights of stairs before zooming off with Trinity on a motorcycle. This kind of expanded storytelling bleeds into every other level of the game.

Strangely, the training levels in Path of Neo are actually one of the game?s biggest detractors. As helpful as they may be, they?re the slowest moving and clunkiest stages of the entire experience and aren?t a good example of what gamers can ultimately expect.

The sound for this game is a mixed bag. As the game uses cutscenes from the movie, you will hear Keanu Reeves and other actors? voices that you have grown accustomed to hearing. The in-game voices, on the other hand, are different. So you can expect intense action supplemented by real fun in this game as all the three parts of the movie are built into this game.

Minimum system requirements: Operating System Windows 2000 /XP Processor Pentium 4 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz or higher, memory 512 MB RAM, hard disk space 6 GB free, DVD-ROM Drive 6X speed or faster, video sound DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card, directX version 9.0c (included) or higher