Word: neos
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...Hesse, Homer, the Gnostic Bible and the comic books of Geof Darrow. Philosophes as diverse as Cornel West and Keanu Reeves have testified to the range of the Wachowskis' erudition and their devotion to high-minded subtextual references in their action movies. Witness is also prepared to admit that Neo, the character Reeves plays in The Matrix Reloaded, may very well be a Christ figure, devoting himself to the redemption of a humanity so far fallen that what remains of it lives scuzzily in caves near the center of the earth (the air-conditioning bill must be horrendous...
...sink. Reeves and friends still fly through the air with the greatest of mayhemic ease. Yet especially after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (whose fight choreographer, Yuen Wo-ping, performs the same function here), a certain been-there, done-that feeling steals over one. And around the third time Neo confronts his endlessly replicating nemesis, Agent Smith, you begin to wonder if someone could have thought of something else for them to do. We're in sequel land here--bigger bangs for bigger bucks, but without the freshness, the boyish joy in their own inventiveness with which the Wachowskis infused...
...SMITH CAN REPLICATE HIMSELF ENDLESSLY AND NEO CAN FLY AWAY, WHAT'S THE POINT OF THEIR FIGHTING...
...game opens, Niobe, along with fellow supporting character Ghost, has to retrieve a letter that has been left for them by the crew of the Osiris, shown in the Animatrix short, The Final Flight of the Osiris--a letter that shows up in Neo's hands, with scant explanation, in the movie. Tantalizing intersection points like this are the Wachowskis' way of making you drop another $50 on their world the day after you leave the theater. (The game will be released the same day as the movie on all formats: PC, PS2, Xbox and GameCube. TIME got an exclusive...
...style. You might also want to learn to hack. At one point in the game, you're faced with a green computer screen, a blinking DOS prompt and no instructions on how to proceed. Perry says he wants players to be staring slack-jawed at the screen--just as Neo was when he received his "knock, knock" message from Trinity in the original movie...