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.