Animatrix: Second Renaissance action game

And it would infringe on multiple copyrights.

Team based combat or RTS though? That''s the REAL question.

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Doesn''t seem all that different then many games out there now...Quake, C&C, or Starsiege with different player models and graphics...just a different "wrapping paper" theme around the same old gameplay box

Hey, didn''t we call that "Terminator?"

Of coarse you would ask the person that made the second renaissance in the animatrix if you could make the game first. And no its not terminator thats entirely different. Also wouldnt be like other games like quake or C&C because of the environments and story line.

[edited by - Doctor on June 18, 2003 4:04:37 PM]

oh, to answer that second question. would be a team based game, online combat, etc

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Of coarse you would ask the person that made the second renaissance in the animatrix if you could make the game first.

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That would be the Wachowski brothers, and it would cost you both testicles.
Of course, given the way they''ve been marketing The Matrix, they are probably already planning such a game.

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Planning another game ? i would have thought they had learned there lesson with Enter the matrix

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Yeah, right. Look at all the Star Wars games; how many of those have been any good?

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Planning another game ? i would have thought they had learned there lesson with Enter the matrix

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Yeah, right. Look at all the Star Wars games; how many of those have been any good?

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Jedi Knight, Jedi Outcast (brought a lot of new gameplay to the FPS)
Rogue Squadron series (derivative but still both successful and fun)
X-Wing, Tie Fighter, X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, X-Wing Alliance (all solid space explodey games)

One point though...you would have to loose at the end of the game. This may not be a bad thing (in fact I have seen a WW2 game that works this quite well), just something I thought might spark some ideas.

I thought Dark Forces was pretty good for its time, too. Cool weapons.

Anyway, I doubt you could land a Matrix license, or a publisher willing to get one for you. It's not that hard to come up with your own cookie-cutter man vs. machine story.

Or you could do something actually novel. Say, instead of machines they built, the humans are fighting vicious, intelligent plant life they bio-engineered. (Ripping off Blue Seed here, too, except those plants were alien.)

[edited by - Sakuranbo on June 19, 2003 3:32:10 PM]

The Matrix license cost Atari many millions. I personally don''t see how it''s too different from Terminator. Machines vs Men at around the same time frame, even similar machines in a lot of ways. The idea at the start of this thread reminds me of the upcoming Terminator 3 online shooter for the PC.

Why does everyone knock Enter the Matrix? I rented it and had a blast except for the car level.