There’s an article on IGN about the new “Enter the Matrix” game that comes out next month. It mentions information from an Infogrames rep that the GameCube, Xbox and Playstation 2 versions will be on two disks and have a normal retail price while the PC version will come on 6 disks in a double DVD case and cost “more”. While the number isn’t mentioned I could venture a guess that it’ll be $79 or $89. That’s the usually price for “collectors editions” of big name titles (diablo 2, civ 3, quake 3, etc).
That’s all well and good but unless theres some extra features and a serious increase in graphics quality, I’m still not willing to pay that much for a game. Seriously, what’s on those extra disks? And why make a 6 disk action game in the first place? What good would there be to have 4 Gigs worth of game installed? I’m sure you could reuse a texture or two here and there. Hell, Morrowind is one of the “biggest” games I’ve ever seen (in terms of world size and game play) and it comes on one disk and looks impressive.
From what I’ve read it seems to be a whole mini-movie all on it’s own. All the actors did voices for the game, the directors “directed” the games production and the graphics are supposed to be nifty.
I’m worried that it’s still just Max Payne, only done correctly this time. I’ll of course reserve my personal final judgment for when I actually play the game but I’m really crossing my fingers thats it not some really expensive marketing ploy just to make people go to the movie. Hopefully they’ve made the game an entity on it’s own. We’ll see.
For that matter, why even make a 6 disc game at all these days? I think anyone out there who’s going to shovel out $80-$90 for a game probably has a DVD-ROM drive by now. It’s not like they’re new technology anymore.
Exactly. I’m sure the PS2 and XBox versions will both be on DVDs. Why even both moving stuff over to conventional CDs when you obviously already have them on DVD. It’s silly.
for the moment, cd-rom is still the de-facto medium. not much you can say to that as long as companies like dell are still selling cd-roms in thier base systems. Basic business – you plan for the lowest common denominator in order to appeal to the most customers. even if they do have DVD-ROm drives, those can still read CDs. And of course Xbox and ps2 are on DVD, because that is the format all thier games are for the consoles (another point for the console design over the PC – you know what is there).
the game itself is going to rock. you’re right, it is pretty much a whole movie in itself and they actually filmed many parts of it right alongside the sequels. There is over an hour of film footage in the game alone. I think this game is going to raise the bar on game production, just like the movies are raising the bar in many facets of film.
the game links a lot of the things you’ve seen thus far from the animatrix features, most notably “final flight of the osiris”, to the two sequels. the storylines kinda intertwine between the various movies. It won’t be like “oh I have no idea what is going on because I didn’t play the game”, but it will be more like “oh, that’s where he’s been”, and “oh, now I get this or that”.
you have seen the trailer for the game, right?
and as for putting people in the seats for the movie. do you really think they need help doing that? this movie is going to make like $500mil worldwide easy. they don’t need a “ploy”. The Wachowski’s have done something incredibly impressive, bringing together stories and ideas from so many places and integrating them seamlessly.
Yeah, but by having a deluxe edition, you’ve already stopped pandering to the lowest common denominator and are targetting a more elite market. Rabit fanboys who want the SuperExtraFancyMatrixXLTurbo edition would probably shell out for a DVD-ROM drive just to play it.
but that’s not a deluxe edition, that’s the normal edition on 6 disks.
Man, I gotta start reading these things slowly.