What ensues is tonnes of bullet time, dashings of jank, and countless childhoods spent trying to kill the agents even though the game really didn’t want you to. Released alongside Reloaded, Enter the Matrix follows two side-characters, Ghost and Niobe, as they look to fill in the blanks from the movie. Enter the Matrix entered many Matrix fans’ hearts back in the day, despite the general consensus being that it was just a bit on the naff side. It’s worth bearing in mind here that all of these Matrix games are being ranked from the perspective of someone who loved all of them in different ways, even more than most. Rumour has it that he’s still chatting away to himself even now. Here are the Matrix games ranked from worst to best, which you will be able to read quicker than The Architect giving his speech in The Matrix Reloaded. Ranking the Matrix games, then, is a straightforward affair, but hopefully things will get a bit spicier soon with the upcoming release of Matrix Resurrections, which may well reinvigorate the IP, bringing it alive and kicking (maybe with a backflip for good measure) to a whole new audience, perhaps paving the way for some new Matrix games.
It’s even a better fit than something like the Lord of the Rings, which has had well over a dozen tie-ins since Peter Jackson first stole Christmas, while The Matrix only has three.
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What makes this weirder still is that The Matrix series is perhaps the “gamiest” franchise in movie history, with its chosen one storyline, amazing brawls, hectic shootouts, and general energy drink on overdrive edge. Considering its status as a pop culture icon that spawned half a million memes and imitators, and gave careers to plenty of Saturday Night Live stars due to just how rich it was for parody material over (too) many years, it’s quite surprising how few Matrix games there are.