When did The Matrix Online come out?

The Matrix Online was released on 25 March 2005 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

The Matrix Online (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Matrix Online

Become a part of Matrix history as you play through and experience events directed by the renowned Wachowskis. Master the innovative combat system to defeat your enemies, while using devastating martial arts…

50 25 March 2005

What The Matrix Online is

The Matrix Online is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Monolith Productions and released in 2005. It was published by Sega. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Become a part of Matrix history as you play through and experience events directed by the renowned Wachowskis. Master the innovative combat system to defeat your enemies, while using devastating martial arts maneuvers and gunplay in a fully realized Mega City. The Matrix Online was an MMORPG that continued the story of the Matrix franchise past the third film, 'Revolutions'. The game featured a unique 'Interlock' combat system, flexible skill allocation and a constantly evolving storyline that players could interact with. The game was shut down on July 31st, 2009.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are science fiction.

Where it sits in the The Matrix series

The Matrix Online is the second of 5 entries we hold in the The Matrix series. It arrived 2 years after Enter the Matrix. The next entry was The Matrix: Path of Neo in 2005. Its critic score of 50 is 12 points below the series average of 62. The highest-rated entry is MultiVersus at 75.

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How it was received

The Matrix Online holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Matrix Online launched on 25 March 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and SWAT 4. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, SWAT 4.

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