Enter The Matrix

Here we are again for the second round of VGC Top Ten Most overhyped Games Ever. This list is a bit trickier, and contains a lot of newer games. When I decided to create this list, I ended up breaking it into two. I did this as there was a problem with lumping modern games in with older ones, due to the advent of the internet. Some almost mundane games seem to get a shedload of over-hype, which the most successful game “back in the day” would even hope to get. The internet has, in a way, made us far more susceptible to developer, fan, publisher, or media hype.

I could write an entire segment about how Matrix Reloaded was “overhyped”, but the sci-fi epic didn’t just get hyped by its lonesome. Atari had been developing a tie-in game that was promised to be just as immense and explorative as the film franchise. The innovators of the “bullet-time” fad promised that anything Neo could you, you could also do. This then kicked off an immense advertising campaign that saw pictures from the game on billboards, TV ads, commercials and just about everything else that month. I work at a retail store, and this game ended up giving us all sorts of banners, cardboard standees, and just about anything else. We don’t get anything like that for most games, which leads me to believe that Atari threw down some serious cash for the marketing. When the game and movie came out, both were lauded for the special effects and slammed for just about everything else. Enter the Matrix was condemned as a bad knockoff of the game Max Payne.



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