History VideoGame / EnterTheMatrix

* ObviousBeta: Getting stuck on walls, texture problems, collision detection issues...it's all here. [[WordOfGod Dave Perry of Shiny Entertainment]] admits this is an ObviousBeta, citing a poor work schedule that combined [[ChristmasRushed meeting the theatrical release]] of ''Reloaded'' and being evicted from their office during the development cycle (according to him, the game had to be moved from an alpha build to a beta build in the span of one day, which is generally unheard of), though the PC version is a lot less glitchy then the console versions.

* ContinuityOverlap: The game immediately follows the events of "The Final Flight of the Osiris", then runs parallels with the events of ''Reloaded'' before concluding just prior to the beginning of ''Revolutions''.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Invoked by Niobe during the opening mission to retrieve the last transmission of the ''Osiris''. Niobe and Thaddeus were good friends, so Niobe knows that Thaddeus ''hated' emergency broadcast drops; he ''never'' used them before or trusted them. That Thaddeus would do so ''now'' sets off all of Niobe's internal alarms and hammers home that whatever's in that drop -- whatever it was that cost the lives of Thaddeus and the ''Osiris'' crew -- ''must'' be important.

* ContinuityOverlap: The game immediately follows the events of ''The Final Flight of the Osiris", then runs parallels with the events of ''Reloaded'' before concluding just prior to the beginning of ''Revolutions''.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Multiple scenes from ''Reloaded'' are revisited from the perspective of Team Niobe, adding new context that wasn't present in the film (such as the Captains summit, or Niobe and Ghost saving Morpheus during the Freeway chase).

* PassThePopcorn: The Trainman sarcastically identifies himself to Niobe as "A spectator enjoying the ride."

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Multiple scenes from ''Reloaded'' are revisited from the perspective of Team Niobe, adding new context that wasn't present in the film (such as Niobe and Ghost saving Morpheus during the Freeway chase).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Trainman's cryptic dialogue during his cameo foreshadows the big reveals of ''Reloaded'' that [[spoiler:this isn't the first iteration of Zion and the Machines have destroyed it before.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Ghost is apparently prone to this off-screen.
--> '''Ghost:''' Like Augustine, I'm dedicated to a higher purpose.\\
'''Trinity:''' And that is?\\
'''Ghost:''' Onanism.\\
'''Trinity:''' Is that why so many saints are blind?\\
'''Ghost:''' Celibacy is a hands-on job...

* BareYourMidriff: Niobe in the post office levels.

* ResidualSelfImage: Niobe, Ghost and every other rebel.
* SarcasticDevotee: Sparks.

* StoryBranchFavoritism: While many of the story missions have the two playable characters tackling different goals to accomplish the mission (The Post Office, Airport, and Power Plant) or change up the gameplay based on which player you chose (Niobe does the driving and Ghost does the shooting in any vehicle level), a handful of levels will have the player character accomplish most of the action while the other character either sits things out or has to be rescued (sewer, Merovingian's mansion, and the final Oracle and Smith stages) in these cases, Niobe's storyline is considered the "canon" version of events, particularly her meeting scene with the Oracle.

** The entire first mission, 20+ levels, is to retrieve a tape from a post-office box dead drop - except the police are already inside the building ''opening all the mail'' trying to intercept the tape, and the tape is the [[BringNewsBack final message]] of a captain who explicitly hated dead drops because he knows that such interceptions are common.

The 2003 tie-in video game to ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' saga, '''''Enter the Matrix''''' follows Captain Niobe and the crew of the Logos and their side of the war. The narrative picks up just after the events of ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' short "Final Flight of the Osiris", and weaves in and out of the plot of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Cain and Abel, the Merovingian's two henchmen.

* SerkisFolk: Anthony Wong and Jada Pinkett-Smith famously motion captured all of the moves in the game.
* ShoutOut: Seraph's teahouse is located on "Wu Ping avenue", named after the fight coordinator for the Matrix movies.
** The Merovingian's brutish werewolf minion is named Cujo, a reference to the Creator/StephenKing novel about [[Literature/{{Cujo}} a rabid dog]].