“Maybe there is a way,” the developer thinks.
In 1999 there was Konami receive an offer to create a game based on the one that is currently premiering Matrix. The Wachowski sisters, the directors of the film, must have been especially interested in working with Hideo Kojima, they must have admired his work even then. A former Konami vice president told Time Extention magazine: Christopher Bergstresser. Kojima later expanded and clarified this story.
“They came in with their visual effects guy and told Kojima, ‘We want you to make a Matrix game.’ Will this work? Aki (Akiyoshi Saito, head of communications who works with Kojima to this day, editor’s note) translated it into Japanese for Mr. Kojima. [Kazumiho] Kitaue (Konami manager, editor’s note), who simply looked at them and clearly said: “No,” says Bergstresser, but apparently not entirely accurately.
Hideo Kojima was scheduled to meet with the Wachowskis only after the meeting, and then go to the Japanese premiere of The Matrix and the afterparty. No one mentioned pitching the game to the producer and then vice president of Konami’s gaming division. “In 26 years, no one has ever told me that such a conversation took place. [s Wachowskými] they encouraged each other and exchanged emails. (…) When I arrived at the headquarters, their meeting with Mr. Kitau (…) had just ended. Then we talked for about an hour without an interpreter. Aki wasn’t there,” Kojima recalls.
“At that time I was already very busy working on MGS2 and probably would not have been able to accept this offer right away. But if someone had told me, maybe there would have been a way to make it work,” he reflects.
Several Matrix adventure games were released in 2003 and 2005. Enter the matrix And The Matrix: Path of Neo from Shiny Entertainment. In the same year as the last game, an MMORPG also opened its doors. Matrix Online from Monolith Productions. It operated for four years. Since then, The Matrix has only moved closer to the gaming world thanks to the Unreal Engine 5 tech demo with the subtitle Wakes up.
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