MxO delivers little to the genre. MxO is the hair band we don't remember or that guy who finished 12th in a 15 man race.
User Rating: 6.5 | The Matrix Online PC
The good: 1) The intro was very good. I enjoyed the tutorial and I liked how they set you up for the game. I really liked how they included your chatacter visualy into the intro. It isn't anything fancy or amazing at how they do it but it is a great touch that I hope future MMO's run with. 2) The skill system was a bit different than the other's in the genre but nothing so different that you will be confused (if you've played MMO's before). 3) System performance was good. I had few moments where I had any issues with the game. This game will run on most of today's average or better systems with little to no problems. 4) It's about the Matrix which happens to be one of my favorit movie/s. This is what attracted myself and probably 95% of those who tried it or are still playing it. The bad: 1) After the intro I felt like I have played this game before. It took only a few minutes to realise that if I were dressed in a blue and white suit, with long white hair, had blue eyes, could encase people in blocks of ice and was named Nuclear Winter then I'd be playing my old City of Heroes character. This game is a carbon copy of CoH as far as game play. The gameplay is boring and I am not the biggest fan of 3rd person gaming in MMO's. I do enjoy the 1st person more. 2) Staying on CoH for a moment one of the biggest negatives in CoH was/is that you spend a lot of time fighting thugs. You eventually gain XP and levels to move on to fight...harder thugs. In Matrix I jokingly said to myself as I explored the first area of the game I entered that I wonder if there are thugs, since this game was so much like CoH so far. Well wouldn't you know...I saw thugs. The quality, difficulty, and variety of enemies in MxO are a HUGE bad. 3) The combat system was a joke. The skill is so/so when fighting in large groups which is ok but the visuals are so bad I couldn't bare it for long. I whip out my machine gun and shoot a man standing dead still. I miss. He then takes some sort of projectile that will explode and I watch it do so. It missed. It landed on me. It missed. Did I mention it landed on me and the exploding projectile missed? I also was able to run around and the exploding projectile which could not have possibly have hit me did just that. Granted those of us who like to be mindlessly entertained might ignore something like that but I on the otherhand find that to be a huge problem. Watching the combat in that game is hillarios. To walk up to someone and do a flurry of kung-fu moves that smack them around but register a "miss" in the game is sad. 4) The clothing was true to the Matrix style but you didn't get to choose much. Sure you had some ability to pick and choose what colors you want and what outfit to wear but when you got the special stuff you were stuck with it. I think the Matrix and what you wear have a lot to do with each other. They are apart of each other. It's like living in Cali, what you drive and wear is a big part of life and so is it in the Matrix genre. Players want to be able to be their Cyber Matrix selves and although it was an ok attempt at providing this a little more effort would have resulted in a huge difference. More options in this area please. Overall: The game lived up to my expectations but they were not very high. This is a game that will survive only if MxO holds true to it's promise of VERY interactive story lines that contiue the true Matrix story. If they slack on this the game will die. 
