And make it more of a video game story," explains Ekanayake of the Wachowskis-driven creative arc of the game. "At some point they wanted to retell Neo's story across all three films. In fact, as Chandana "Eka" Ekanayake, Path of Neo's art and cinematic director shares, the second game had been intended to follow Seraph, one of the side characters from the teahouse in Reloaded, before plans changed.
Who doesn't?"Īnd because the films had already wrapped and been released by the time the studio got to work on the game, the Wachowskis were able to become more involved in the creative process.
We really didn't want to disappoint those fans a second time. That's opposed to Enter the Matrix following the characters Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Ghost (Anthony Wong), from the film The Matrix Reloaded. "The number one complaint from the fans was that they wanted to be Neo," Roundtree explains.
But as it turns out, fans themselves were given a pretty interesting choice back in 2005, when Shiny Entertainment released The Matrix: Path of Neo video game, as it allowed players to play and experience an alternate ending to the Wachowskis' genre-bending film trilogy - in case they were looking for something a little different than the conclusion of 2003's The Matrix Revolutions.Īs Gabriel Rountree, the animation director on Path of Neo explains in Polygon's recent oral history of the game, part of the reason the game even came to be told from Neo's point of view was because of how the studio's previous Matrix game, Enter the Matrix, had been received. Fans of The Matrix are more than familiar with the importance of choice.
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