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Blue pill fever.
GamersInfo.net has a review of The Matrix Online posted. We're nearly sure that Neo had no part in the writing of this:

"When I jack in, I am in the Matrix. The terminology used, the skill
system, the events: these are the Matrix. However, it's really not the
game itself that has succeeded in creating the Matrix Online. It's the
combination of live events and the offline elements. Newspapers are
sent to my email regarding what is happening in the Matrix. If I have
signed up for their IM service I can speak to people in the Matrix
while not in myself (and vice versa). A radio station was developed by
players - Radio Free Zion - and was just incorporated into the game.
Live Events of the highest caliber - performed by professional actors -
occur at regularly scheduled intervals for days at a time. Summaries of
the events are posted daily - sometimes multiple times per day - from
the perspective of players, characters such as Morpheus (who was
recently killed), or from the various factions like the Machines,
Zionites and Exiles (Merovingians). Event summaries are posted in a
very timely manner and then again sometimes weeks later you'll find
another clue about what happened that will simply make your head swim.
Add to that, short cinematics that often include the Oracle and you
feel like you've found your spot inside the raining green code."

You can read the entire The Matrix Online Review at GamersInfo.net.

A Guild Wars review, can you believe it?
Guild Wars has been reviewed at Computer Games Online. We are relatively certain that Microsoft has not decided to call their next edition of Windows OS:

"One resemblance between the above mentioned titles and Guild Wars is the ability to support simultaneously hundreds of thousands of players, but the main difference here is that Guild Wars is made up entirely of two types of instances. Cities act as meeting locations for the players. Each city is divided into districts, which can accommodate a maximum of 150 players. If this number is topped, a new district will be created and vice-versa. As you can see, the limited number of players in an area negates the “massively” characteristic, which is specific to other MMORPG’s, making the cities act like instances. On the other hand, you can meet your friends by joining the same district, and if they are on a different server - North America, Asia (South Korea) or Europe - you can choose one of the international districts."

You can read the entire Guild Wars Review at Computer Games Online.

If Neo can do anything, can he make a rock that is too heavy for him to lift?
PC Gameworld has a review of The Matrix Online posted for your blue pill pleasure. We slowed down time, dodged bullets and made friends with the machines just so we could tell you that they probably wrote this:

"Combat is pretty entertaining at first. When you engage an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, the camera pans in and things take on much more of a fighter-game style. You queue up attacks and watch as they are displayed on the screen. The martial arts are impressive and seem varied; each battle appears like its own individual fight… until the fifteenth or sixteenth fight. After that it's pretty much the same moves over and over. Obviously it can't be different every time, but the sparkle does fade and fights get dull."

You can read the entire The Matrix Online Review at PC GameWorld.

MMORPG - No Fee.
Bit-tech has joined the flood and reviewed Guild Wars. They wrote this, maybe:

"Forget what you know about MMORPGs, because Guild Wars takes the concepts and throws them out of the window. Number One: there are no fees to pay each month. You pay for the game upfront, like any other game, then you play it online as much as you want. Number Two: forget spending ages on mundane tasks like sleeping, or healing, or crafting. In Guild Wars, you spend more of your time questing and less of your time fiddling. Number Three: don't worry about queuing to take on big quests. You won't be sharing them with others."

You can read the entire Guild Wars Review at Bit-Tech.
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