Matrix Game Payments To Wachowskis Revealed 22
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Gamesindustry.biz report discussing the financial terms of the deal made with the Wachowski Brothers for the Matrix games. It's rare that anyone gets to see the kind of financial terms granted to creators of big licenses like The Matrix. But divorce documents for one of the brothers, made available via The Smoking Gun, have revealed a total of 2.75 million dollars will be paid to them with regard to Atari's Enter The Matrix game (and another 2.75 million going direct to Warner Bros), plus an eventual total of 2.5 million dollars going to the Wachowskis for Ubi Soft's The Matrix Online through 2007. More proof, if needed, that games are seriously big business.
I'll bite... (Score:4, Informative)
Only the tiniest percentage of games will achieve sales figures like that (eg. GTA, Warcraft, The Sims). A "successful" game will sell more than a few hundred thousand copies. You've got to be damned sure you're going to get the sales to support an investment of $3m. Fortunately - or unfortunately, depending on your point of view - a strong licence such as The Matrix almost guarantees good sales figures, even if the game itself is no better than average.
I played the game and is not that bad on XBOX (Score:2, Informative)
On the other hand the game is easy to master, the difficulty level is well balanced, the cinematics complement the movie very well and it shows some details about what is going to happen on the third movie. Some missions were a little bit boring (like when you play against the agent Smith) but still the game kept me several hours playing.
Also is very cool to play against the agents on "bullet time"
You should follow your instincts and never trust these crappy game magazines that sometines bash good games and praise crappy games instead.
In short: if you like the movie then buy the game.
Just my two cents.
JV.