More than meets the eye. It doesnt look like much, but with a sharper eye you will perceive how great this product is.
This game is special, at least to me, and let me tell you why.
First time I got the game, I tried it, and at a first look I didnt like it AT ALL and was greatly dissapointed. "Textures look like crap, game is full of bugs, etc..." But for some mysterious reason I came back to it, just to fight some enemies and see the moves. Then I started to frecuent the atari "Path of Neo" forums, asking and demanding a solution to everyone's performance and graphical problems, and got highly concerned and involved with the solutions for the current issues the game has.
At the same time, I started to more deeply analyze the game's composition, and then I saw it: the amazingly depth this game has. Its gameplay mechanic is intricate yet simple, yet almost neverending, and highly entertaining and addictive. Its environments are true to the matrix franchise and highly destructible, which is amazing. The music and sounds are top notch, crisp and exactly how a matrix game should sound and feel. And then I payed close attention to some of the graphic effects and character models, amazing.
A couple of days later a new driver for my card was out (5.11, you know what brand I might be talking about) and found out that few of the graphical and lighting bugs I blamed Shiny and Atari for not fixing them, they were fixed with the updated vcard drivers. This showed me how advanced and "more than meets the eye" this game is and will be months from now.
Its weird, cause this is the kind of game that doesnt look like much, but with a sharper eye, you are revealed with the TRUE game inside the vague appearance I first perceived: Although somewhat buggy, this game is a huge, solid (in many aspects), enteraining, and beautiful (to a sharp eye).
Of course it all depend on each users' computer power, but Im speaking from my own and personal point of view, and my experience pereciving this game.
If you think about it, this game resembles the matrix story. At first Neo perceives the world with one set of eyes, then as he evolves and open his eyes, the world takes a much difference form than what he intially saw.
All in all, with all its bugs and problems, its an amazing game. I bet that a month from now, many gaming sites' reviewers and users who reviewed this game on a first impression will feel they didnt gave the game the score it really deserves.
Again, just my opinion.
Malcolm "TheFreeman" Sohm