Topic: People Continue to Enter The Matrix

[LassePalle]

Worldwide sales have now reached 2.5 million.

ENTER THE MATRIX JOINS ATARI'S "MORE THAN 2.5 MILLION SOLD" CLUB

 Fastest-selling Title in Company's History

 London - June 19, 2003 - In little more than a month on store shelves, Atari's Enter The Matrix has sold through 2.5 million units in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), making it the 14th - and fastest-selling - title/franchise in the Atari catalogue to cross this sales threshold.

Enter The Matrix joins the following Atari titles/franchises which have surpassed sales of 2.5 million units: Driver, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Civilization, Monopoly, Test Drive, Unreal, Dragon Ball Z, V-Rally, Backyard Sports, Deer Hunter, Tonka, Putt Putt, and Freddi Fish.

"Having a hit title right out of the box is enormously gratifying but seeing the steady worldwide demand for Enter The Matrix is even more compelling," said Bruno Bonnell, Chairman and CEO of Atari. "We have a long history of multi-million selling games, and our experience tells us that titles with this level of sales success typically have a long shelf life. From what we have seen to date, Enter The Matrix is right on course."

Enter The Matrix is a third-person action game that parallels Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' action blockbuster, The Matrix Reloaded, the second chapter in the Wachoswki Brothers' revolutionary film trilogy. The game hit stores May 15 in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox video game system from Microsoft, the Nintendo GameCube and the PC. Enter The Matrix will be available in Japan on June 19.

Developed by award-winning Shiny Entertainment (an Atari studio), Enter The Matrix is a revolution in interactive entertainment, a game that effectively blurs the line between Hollywood blockbuster films and next-generation video games. The game is directed by and features a script written by the Wachowski Brothers, writers/directors of The Matrix movie trilogy, creating the most intensive collaboration between a video game publisher and a movie studio to date.

Enter The Matrix includes approximately one hour of never-before-seen footage - shot exclusively for the game - using the actors, sets and crew from the blockbuster film, The Matrix Reloaded. In addition, the game features an hour of cineractives, directed by the Wachowskis and rendered within the game engine to help tell the epic story of Enter The Matrix.

[Djunknown]

hmm... it appears Matrix Heads are content with the final product afterall.Either that or casual gamers outnumber hardcore ones by a ridiculous ratio. Looks like Style over Substance won this round....  

[thecubedcanuck]

I played the MATRIX last night, and I really dont know what everyone has been bitching about, the game is great.

[reyontoyeny]

But do you know how much better of a place the world would be if those 2.5 million people instead bought Eternal Darkness or something?

[Grey Ninja]

Sorry, off topic, but reyontoyeny, I have the urge to shoot you just by looking at your avatar.    I hate that blasted dog.  I am sure that if there was a poll or something, he would win hands down for the title of the most annoying character EVER.

As for Enter the Matrix, I haven't really played it yet.  Movie conversions to games just aren't really my thing for the most part, unless it's like Star Wars or something else that makes a great game.

[Bartman3010]

I used to like Infogrames (atari) when they published that Looney Tunes Space Race game. But when Dragon Ball Z - Legacy of Goku came around, it made me wonder why the keep publishing crap.

As for Sierra (They made the game, right) I'm not suprised how the game turned out. They made that platformer Half-Life.

[Bloodworth]

Shiny made the game, not Sierra.