The Matrix: Path of Neo
The Matrix: Path of Neo will follow the story of the blockbuster motion picture trilogy The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and for the first time allow gamers to play as "Neo" and…
The Matrix: Path of Neo is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Shiny Entertainment, released 4 October 2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 11 hrs to finish.
What The Matrix: Path of Neo is
The Matrix: Path of Neo is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Shiny Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Havok.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Matrix: Path of Neo is a 2005 action-adventure video game developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Atari. The game was written and co-directed by the Wachowskis, who wrote and directed the first three The Matrix films and the 2003 video game Enter the Matrix, also developed by Shiny Entertainment. Players control the character Neo, participating in scenes from the films.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Matrix series
The Matrix: Path of Neo is the third of 5 entries we hold in the The Matrix series. It arrived 6 months after The Matrix Online. The next entry was The Matrix: Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience in 2021. Its critic score of 66 is 4 points above the series average of 62. The highest-rated entry is MultiVersus at 75.
How it was received
The Matrix: Path of Neo holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 67, across 83 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11 hrs.
What it launched against
The Matrix: Path of Neo launched on 4 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy). All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Matrix: Path of Neo yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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