Meh
It should really say something when even installing a game is a chore. I had to turn off my virus protection to install this game properly...It seems that in a few of the files there is something that looks like a known virus and won't install them. I turned off virus protection and re-installed, my computer has no ill effects of a virus and the game runs better.
The menus leave alot to be desired, with not even the ability to control with a mouse, its all arrows, enters, and escapes people. The graphical optimization is barren. The only adjustments that can be made is a 1-10 scale for brightness, and detail rendering...and being able to choose resolution...no AA, gamma adjustment, nothing...you can choose to turn on and off light bloom.
The game itself is very unstable, with frequent crashes to the desktop...mix this with an auto-save only feature which only saves between levels and not checkpoints this becomes very frustrating. The graphics in this game are also bad...perio...full of techinical bugs and bad textures, its just not what we should be seeing graphically at this point. On the pc though the framerate was stable, but I can think of a few places that the consoles are going to have problems.
A game being named Path of Neo I was expecting to actually follow the Path of Neo but apparently that wasn't good enough and some major liberties have been taken with the story**************Spoilers*************
The opening leve is neo's escape from the office building with ducking into cubicles...this is a very long and drawn out level, with only the ability to shove the police (which is fine because at this point he probably didn't have the ability to throw a punch) But instead of a duck here and there and getting trapped on the ledge, you actually make it out of the builiding onto trinity's bike...in most instances getting caught in this level is an automatic restart the level. Which if he was captured in the movie to progress the story why doesn't it matter here. Although to be fair near the end I think I saw a accept capture option (which I didn't take so it may not be that big of an issue, but the accept capture should be an option all throughout the stage.*****************end Spoilers****************************************
The Movie footage the show is actually a very good quality, but its mixed in an a quick cut out of linear sequence way that was very meh, because we have already seen it, and it doesn't really help the story progress.
The level design is very poor...sure there are the levels from the movie, the question you have to ask yourself is which movie...at which point you would answer one of the matrix movies, and yes those are there...but there is also levels ripped directly from crouching tiger, and a few others.
The fighting in this game is actually a lot of fun and there seems to be a ton of moves to pulloff...the problem is pulling off these moves feels very random with a big how the heck did I do that factor. hit detection seems to be off with Swords going straight through people sometimes. Character modeling is also pretty bad by todays standards with Neos head sometimes being not quite on his neck, and other thechnical issues.
Gun play is the exact opposite to the fighting, its not very fullfiling and quirky...plus there really aren't as many guns as I would have liked to have seen in this game, with the plethora we see in the movies I expected more.
Enemy AI is also not the brightest...with enemy's, Inculding some bosses, really just sitting around waiting for you to hit them...the do use cover behing pillars but not really in the way that we have become used to.
All in all this game is very meh...not really worth the $50 that was spent on it...I would be really happy to only spend $20 becuase thats really what its worth...however not all is lost becuase it is fun to fight in this game and with some destructible enviornments it makes it playable for awhile.