New Enter the Matrix Patch

May 17, 2003 7:50 AM

Shortly after the first patch, a second patch for Atari's Enter the Matrix game has been released. The patch offers cleaner graphics, an improved options screen, the ability to alt-tab out of the game and EAX support has been fixed.

Maarten Goldstein

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StuMan1337

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May 17, 2003 7:57 AM

How many days has this game been out? Companies need to lose this release now, patch later strategy.
- kingdepork
  
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  May 17, 2003 8:01 AM
  
  Well understand it's not like they could push back the release date a month to clean it up. It's main selling point was a complete release on all platforms the day the movie came out, wether it's ready or not.
  - Houdini
    
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    May 17, 2003 8:10 AM
    
    It doesn't matter. You should NEVER purposely sell a defective product to consumers! I'm staying the hell away from this game...
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      May 17, 2003 8:17 AM
      
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      - Houdini
        
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        May 17, 2003 9:34 AM
        
        Does Intel or AMD release CPU's when they know there are bugs? Nope, instead they delay the release of the chip and fix the issue. Sometimes chips are released and a bug is found afterwords. That's just part of the bizz.
        
        But heck, I wouldn't even mind a few small obscure bugs not being fixed when games are released, but having two patches released days after the game has been released is just plain ridiculous.
        
        SatansFist
        
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        May 17, 2003 9:37 AM
        
        Hey its better than waiting a month or two to patch it ;)
        
        sharkII
        
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        May 17, 2003 9:44 AM
        
        Nope, instead they delay the release of the chip and fix the issue ahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahah
        
        indeego
        
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        May 17, 2003 10:19 AM
        
        Dude you know nothing about CPU's. Both Intel and AMD release chips with "errata." Intel publicly publishes this every chip release. Usually the bugs are so obscure they make little difference, but EVERY chip has them.
        
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        May 17, 2003 10:23 AM
        
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        Juicemann
        
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        May 17, 2003 6:29 PM
        
        Usually the bugs are so obscure they make little difference, but EVERY chip has them.
        
        Right, that's why in that case it doesnt matter so much. But these patches are dealing with issues that make the game unplayable.
        
        2 patches in 2 days?! WTF?? Don't you find anything wrong with that?
- Turd Ferguson
  
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  May 17, 2003 11:03 AM
  
  part of it is, companies can find these bugs until they get thousands of different hardware and software configurations running it.
- jonc
  
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  May 17, 2003 5:37 PM
  
  Admittedly, but in there defense the game actually went GOLD like a month ago, they delayed putting on the shelves until now to sync up with the movie release. Since then they've had time to patch up some things. Its standard for PC games to not have patch's released, the only difference here is that that patch is available now instead of a month from now when it normally would have been released.
  
  So, this is actually a good thing. If your complaining that games shouldn't have bugs, or that game developers shouldn't release a game without bugs then you live in a fantasy world.
  - djustifier
    
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    May 17, 2003 5:45 PM
    
    Like Turd said. There's NO WAY they could know EVERYTHING that was going to happen until the game shipped. You just can't account for every piece of hardware and every configuration that's out there. Not the mention all the various software that people have installed on their systems. PC compatibility is a nightmare.
    - Juicemann
      
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      May 17, 2003 6:33 PM
      
      * EAX option now works properly. *
      
      This has nothing to do with accounting for every configuration that's out there. The feature was advertised, but it simply was NOT WORKING when the game shipped. They shipped a broken game.