Matrix Online Trailer
A new Matrix Online movie trailer is available, showing more than two minutes of footage from the recently delayed action MMORPG in development at Monolith. Thanks Blues News.
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nilpoint
replyOkay, major problems with this trailer, though not necessarily with the game.
First, could we possibly make it any lower-res? This worries me; why did they have to make it 300x200 or something ridiculously small? Is there texture-work that bad?
Second, who the hell is responsible for that camera-work? It's awful. "Bob, I want you to go running around the city and randomly heave the camera around." It shows.
Third, why so little of the hacking effects that the devs have been talking about so much? I think I saw a total of 2 effects (that luckily weren't the "matrix code") coming from a few hits in hand-to-hand.
Fourth, all the action seemed to take place around a single avatar. MMOs are generally all about social interaction. For God's sake, even an overly-dramatic zoom out from a line of PCs striking ridiculous fighting poses would have been something. Let me know that you are considering how team-play is going to work. Sigh.
However, the fighting is looking great; very very varied and even had me cringing a few times ("God dayum, that looked like it hurt"). Hits looked really solid.
These guys need to have a semi-pro cinematographer consult with them, because these previews really aren't cutting the mustard.
