Enter The Matrix x 4 Million

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  I think the first matrix did EXTREMELY WELL? : jerkinisnice
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    It didn't break the Top 50 for box office. : Fred Garvin
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      Still good for an R-rated movie. : jerkinisnice
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        Yup, but it didn't do as well as some people think. : Fred Garvin
        • It did terrific. I don't know if people are expecting a titanic here or something. : jerkinisnice
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          Actually, it did. The Matrix has achieve a status what really only Star Wars as managed to do more than t... : Evangelion
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            http://us.imdb.com/Charts/usatopmovies it's #76. : Fred Garvin
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              Number 32 worldwide: http://us.imdb.com/Charts/worldtopmovies : Fred Garvin
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                The only other R-Rated movie to do better was Saving Private Ryan. Second highest grossing R-Rated movie... : |hawkeye|
                • oops, for got Terminator 2! ^_^ : |hawkeye|
        • 170 in US for an R rated movie that cost 80-100million is pretty good when they didnt expect much out of ... : pimpium
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  460 million dollars is what it made. If that's not good I don't know what is? : bubble rap
  • Thats worldwide of course... : pimpium
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    a lot of that is from us geeks going over and over just like the teeny bopper females and titanic. : jrsX
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      bullshit, I have a lot of dumb friends who like dumb shit and they all went to see the matrix. : jerkinisnice
      • heh, i knew lots of adults and old people who went to see it. I dunno why he is so insistent that no one ... : pimpium
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  First Matrix made like 170 something million in theatres and was the first DVD to sell 1 million copies. : pimpium
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    170 million in the US alone. And 170 Million for an R rated movie is rare. : bubble rap
    • Indeed sir. Not many R movies do such money. ;) : pimpium
    • There was some article the other day that compared it to earnings of other films that year, yet never men... : pigvomit
• What a strange assumption to make. Everybody in the world went to see that movie. Yokels and geeks alik... : |hawkeye|
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  Every teenage guy I know is entranced with the movie... about 10 of us are gonna go see it 10pm 5/14. Se... : zach`
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    its a bible movie!!! OMG!!! They tricked us!! : pigvomit
    • the good lord sent me from zion : pyide
• It did well for a movie that didn't hit it's stride until much later. It was released in March, typically... : edgewise
• The movie was made with a $50mil budget. It quintupled that amount in earnings for the rest of the year. ... : sub4

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• I'm with ya. The soundtrack has been a let down so far. (about to start disc 2) : spl
• its hard to associate music to a movie I havent even seen yet... they shouldnt have released it sooooo ea... : cap n KRUNCH
• I like the Juno Reactor stuff. : scud
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  The soundtrack nobody paid for. Sickening that this is allowed at the shack. : jerkinisnice
  • sickening might be a bit of a reach : elementZen
• Didjya get the orchestrated soundtrack? There were two soundtracks for that movie, you know. : Rotten Deadite

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• oh and the matrix will always be the best film, matrix 2 and 3 just wont seem as fresh, plus they used al... : eyeronik
• your opinion is rubbish. Only the naive would believe you. : pigvomit

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• welcome to my world : FoX3D
• same here. Movie - awesome. Animatris - looks great. Game - suxors. They are not even hyping it to be ... : dynamo
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  I watched the Animatrix last night. It reminded me of Heavy Metal with all the vignettes, but it's better... : dafragsta
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    wasn't that good. most of the stories were pointless. : jerkinisnice
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      i thought it was great. and the stories weren't pointless, they were fleshing out the matrix universe. so... : alexthweatt
      • The 2 Second Renaissance films are great. : Fred Garvin
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        They were pointless stories. There the two parter episode was good. Last Flight of the Osiris was also pr... : jerkinisnice
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          How were they pointless? They didn't tap directly into the main storyline found in the Matrix, Neo and Mo... : Evangelion
          • okay, maybe they weren't pointless. Just a tad boring. : jerkinisnice

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  et was probably the worst game ever made : burnmaker
  • ET was fun. : janblood
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  beat me to this comment... thought the SAME thing was the last game I ever bought for the 2600, and di... : cap n KRUNCH
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    ET was developed in like 4 months and rushed out, wasn't it? ETM has been in development for like 4 year... : vermiciousknid
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      you are correct... its not a good comparison, but I can only think that SOME marketer's balls are going t... : cap n KRUNCH
      • ;) No doubt. : vermiciousknid
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      Yes, but I imagine 4 months is a _LONG_ development cycle for an Atari 2600 game. : dafragsta
      • One month for each 1024 bytes! : rorshack
• Link to ET screenshots or the rom image? :) : Aubrey Philipsz
• HAHA! I just bought that game the other day. I owned it when I was young, but my Dad gave all my atari st... : systatic

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  enjoy your 4 million copies :P : FoX3D
  • LOL, good one. : Liquid
• You're not a consumer whore. You're a Matrix fan. : gmoney

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• I bet they'll allow a full install, it'll be big (3gb?) but no way they make you insert discs just to wat... : edgewise

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• review???? I dont see any up. : pigvomit
• The game should stand on it's own and not be rated better because other movie games suck. : Fred Garvin

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• The GameCube has the ability to be a lot better looking than the PS2, but that won't necessarily mean the... : spl
• i think gamecub will be multiple disc or they'll compress the hell out of the fmv so its probably better ... : stiki figgaz

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• hey im still the kind of person that thinks Halflife looks good.....At 1600*1200 8xAA 8xAF...... : pigvomit
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  3 games for a piece of shit game that isn't worth any of those 3? Unless those 3 titles all are really ho... : ovrlrd
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    How can you say the game is pos when you haven't even played it? I love these biased people. : fvick
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      Of course i'm going to be biased when they decide to put the PC version on 6 fucking cds. What do they ex... : ovrlrd
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        get six 2x CD-rom's for $2 used and away you go! No wait times! : indeego
        • it would take longer in 2x, any cdrom that is faster than 12x would install it faster. : ovrlrd

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  well I think UT2K3 has sold over a million so far, so that's hardly a flop. I think Unreal 2 has sold ... : Schnapple
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    UT2k3 sold a million already? No way. I bet they're not even at 500k. Not many PC games sell 1mil units d... : edgewise
    • no they announced it, they really did sell over a million. : Silent Wolf
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      BLIZZARD games sell over a mil in the first 24 hours ;) but they are the exception. The SIMS also so... : jedi_27
      • BF1942 broke 1 miljon in January (realesed sept.). At that time it was not on US top-10, the last 2-3 mot... : Agge
• Neverwinter Nights sold pretty good, weren't they Atari? : Anti_dentite

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• I'm in the same boat. Usually PC is just better because of graphics, but I'm worried about the controls. ... : !gnoleb
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  I'm gonna rent the xbox version. : wunderbred
  • That's the best solution by far I think. : Carnivac

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  they know that this game will sell like hotcakes on consoles. pc is less of a concern because they know ... : maulla
  • Okay so they are basically trying to cater the PC version to people who really want it. So they know the ... : ovrlrd

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• It might be fun? I know the premise to castlevania games, yet i still buy em. : pigvomit

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• 6 * 1million. : fvick
• funny? .... hmm no : onji
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  It's not 6 CDs. : vermiciousknid
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    Yes it is 6 CDs, read up. : blashy
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      It's only on 6 CD's for the PC version. The console versions will be out on a single pitiful disc (DVD fo... : macphisto
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        True, I was talking PC. Figured anyone would know Consoles would have DVDs. : blashy
        • I'll bet you 4 million copies of the game that it's 4 CDs. : vermiciousknid
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      Read where? IGN? Who's source was some european guy at some european event? that's like beleiveing rele... : vermiciousknid
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        It wasn't some European guy, it was a European Infogrames Representative, I think that pretty much makes ... : ovrlrd
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          yeah, there was even a story on the shack too. : jerkinisnice
          • Yeah thats where I got the link to the IGN article: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/25943/ : ovrlrd

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  multiply this image by 4: http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/six.asp : cap n KRUNCH
  • That was insane... : Don Vito Corleone
• don't be sad be happy : Silent1
• 4 million * 6 cds = whoa : jerkinisnice

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• defenenitly... : H-52
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  yeah but 4 million? come on.. they will lose money : jaga
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    yeah because we all know how expensive it is to print CDs in mass quantity. : Nation
    • Yeah, because new games come in jewel cases rather than boxes with high quality prints on them. Right? n : Poor Yurik
• thats right. It was never their intend to make the game for the 'hardcore' gamers. They wanted people to ... : buzzfunk
• Is it "Deer Hunter" or "Who wants to be a Millionare" appeal? THAT's your broad appeal, not more sci-fi s... : cap n KRUNCH
• Maybe at first, but if it suck word of mouth can kil it. Casual gamers often turn to their hardcore frien... : Fred Garvin
• agreed hopefully we'll see a demo : Silent1
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  Will the casual market have the hardware specs required to run the game? : sinistarfith
  • D'oh. Forgot this was hitting the consoles. Nevermind. : sinistarfith

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  Yeah but a game from blizzard, even though I don't care for them, is bound to sell tons. Infogrames seems... : Speedy8
  • I actually think this 4 million is kinda light, especially since its across multiple systems and its base... : Pie4Foo
• It is a big deal for an unproven license by an inconsistent company. : Fred Garvin

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  thats cuz those are ps2 shots : ultramega
  • Err...yeah, and they look GOOD to me. I think this game looks great, I just wanted to know why everyone e... : ShadeOGreen
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  In all the screenshots (screenshot 9 is a good example), the models look decent but the level design (inc... : bigimp
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    prolly cuz its console, all console have shitty grphx altho i dont really know what im talking about sinc : papaskot
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      and by sitty grphx i meant sshitty textures : papaskot
      • Wow 2 tries and you still couldn't get it right! ;p : Speedy8
• It's the hype vs. reality debate. They hype it up like it's a ground breaking, earth shattering game when... : Fred Garvin

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• Also its probably a million per system, even that is kind of ridiculous. : fvick

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  Same here. I'm thinking Xbox, personally. : Vincent Grayson
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    If I had an XBOX, that would be my choice. I prefer PCs by a longshot (FPS fan) but for a controller type... : blashy
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      The number of CDs alone on the PC is going to make it a pain in the ass, it's either going to be swap-cit... : Carnivac
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        yeah but a 6 cd case is gonna be pretty sweet :-) : rick98761
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          Infogrames did paper sleeves for UT2K3, which was 3 CDs. I expect no better from them. : the archvile
          • they did the same for nwn. : jerkinisnice
      • and they'll probably stick the CD key somewhere on page 13 of the booklet. : the archvile
    • I agree, I'd get it for xbox. But I'm not really interested in this game unless it gets good reviews. : Speedy8

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  Wanting to try something before buying it is hardly unfair. That's part of the reason people warez things... : Speedy8
  • In a related note, the Internet ground to a halt today when warez puppies had to download six CD's worth ... : Schnapple

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  I'm worried that it'll be hurried and rushed out just so it can come out at the same time as the movie. I... : bigimp
  • Well I think they started really early with the game. I mean hell this was arranged before the movie sta... : kingdepork
• Well, I hope it's anything like Zelda's fighting system, where -when attacked by an enemy- you can press ... : Insanity

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• See: Star Wars games ;) : KungFuKenobi