A fun experience, improved from it's "Enter the Matrix" predecessor.
It's a fun action title if what you're looking for is to run around and beat a lot of people up, but don't expect much more than that.
Along your journey through the movie's main story line, you'll unlock lots of martial arts moves and upgrades. As you progress, you'll be able to use these moves to inflict massive damage on multiple foes simultaneously. As much fun as this can be, you will have to plan your attacks a little bit in advance, as the controls don't always respond as quickly as one would like.
Some of the combos utilize a quick-time-event-like action for you to dish out the most punishment. Luckily, they did get these controls right, and made the quick-time-event system much more forgiving than what can be found in other games.
Neo also looks great pulling off the attacks. The animations look like they used the motion capture data from the film to pull off an authentic movie look. In fact, watching yourself bringing pain unto those that oppose you is the most satisfying part of the game.
Although hand to hand combat is your primary means to dispatch your enemies, it isn't the only way. The game also drops a small variety of firearms and melee weapons. While the guns can be useful, they don't add a whole lot to the game-play, however using the odd sword or torch-post can be a nice change.
As fun as the combat is, even it has trouble sprucing up the occasional slump the game gets in during a mission. The goals and obstacles can get repetitive, and predictable, which makes things feel a little tedious at times.
The developers did try to do a few things to spruce up game-play a little bit, such as adding a level that's like living in MC Escher's Relativity while fighting giant ants, to adding new plot points to the existing storyline such as freeing a few new characters from the Matrix. Unfortunately they don't ever sway too far from the core formula of fight, then fight some more, and a little more variety would have been welcomed.
The game length is just about right. Not so short to make you feel like you didn't enough action out of, not so long that the rush of some awesome fight sequences don't lose their effect allowing boredom to set in.
The sound was very good, and the voice actors they hired did well at impersonating the original actors for the in game dialog. The mix of the sound though felt all over the place with uneven volume levels.
Although it came out a couple years after the final movie, it does feel like an honest attempt to keep Matrix fans entertained, as opposed to just going for one more cash grab on behalf of the franchise.