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The Matrix
"Ghost in the Machine"
Chapters 1-4 of Enter the Matrix video game
Developed by Shiny Entertainment
Released May 15, 2003 |
Ghost takes on the mission to retrieve the
data left at the Matrix drop point by the Osiris.
Notes from the Matrix chronology
This story takes place almost immediately after the events of
"Final Flight of the Osiris" and depict Niobe and
Ghost's mission to retrieve the data left inside the Matrix by
Jue just before her death and the destruction of the Osiris.
As such, these chapters take place just before the beginning of
The Matrix
Reloaded.
Didja Know?
The Enter the Matrix video game features 11 chapters
that take place immediately before and during the events of
The Matrix
Reloaded. Chapters 1-4 take place almost immediately
after the events of
"Final Flight of the Osiris" and depict Niobe and
Ghost's mission to retrieve the data left inside the Matrix by
Jue just before her death and the destruction of the Osiris.
As such, these chapters take place just before the beginning of
The Matrix
Reloaded. The remaining seven chapters of the game take
place concurrently with the events of that film and will be
dealt with in the main study of
Enter the Matrix.
In the game
Enter the Matrix, the player may play as either
Niobe or Ghost. This means that there are two choices for the
main storyline, making it difficult to decide which character's
storyline is "canon". For these first four chapters of the game,
I have chosen Ghost's path as the main, canon storyline since it
allows him to get into some action, which he mostly misses out
on in the films, unlike Niobe. There are a couple of Niobe
chapters that I have inserted, as they are ones that have her in
action at a removed location while Ghost retrieves the
Osiris
message.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this game
Sparks
Ghost
Niobe
Thadeus (mentioned only, deceased)
Hume (mentioned only)
Agents
Commander Lock
Lock's lieutenant (unnamed)
Captain Thadeus (in video recording only, deceased)
Morpheus (on phone message only)
Ice (on phone message only)
Jax (on phone only)
Axel
Soren
Binary
The Trainman
Didja Notice?
Intro and Chapter 1: The Post Office
View the walkthrough of this chapter at YouTube
During the introductory segment of this game, Niobe remarks
to Sparks on Thadeus using a drop box (via Jue) to get information to
the forces of Zion and the fact that it cost him his life. We saw the
story of this info drop in
"Final Flight of the Osiris".
At 2:30 in the video, Ghost checks his pair of
MRI Desert Eagle pistols. However, he is suddenly
wielding two
SIG-Sauer P229 Sport pistols when he draws them against
police forces when they occupy the post office to stop him
getting the Osiris package.
Ghost insists on always checking his guns when he goes into
the Matrix and Niobe remarks that it's not necessary because
the program loads the exact same way every time. Ghost
counters that Hume teaches us that no matter how many times
you drop a stone and it falls to the floor, you never know
for sure what will happen the next time you drop it. Ghost
is likely referring to Scottish philosopher David Hume
(1711-1776) who argued that all human knowledge comes from
experience and inductive reasoning and causality cannot be
rationally justified because we cannot know the future.
The post office box that holds the Osiris information is
73122.
Niobe's 1967 Pontiac Firebird is seen to have license plate
JJ522.
At 3:26 in the video, Niobe and Ghost cross Bernard Street
in Mega City.
At 8:33 in the video, Ghost picks up a cop's
Colt 9mm
submachine Gun.
At 9:12 in the video, Ghost picks up a Colt Mustang .380
pistol.
At 15:24 in the video, Ghost somehow has a
Beretta 92FS pistol.
A poster for a stamp catalog is seen in the post office at
18:15 in the video. The stamp enlargement shown on it
appears to be a modified and horizontally-distorted version
of the George Washington 3-cent stamp circa 1918.
At 18:29 in the video, Ghost takes down a cop and takes his
Heckler & Koch MP5A2 submachine gun.
At 19:13 in the video, Ghost picks up what the game screen
refers to as "entry shotgun".
Chapter 2: City Streets
View the walkthrough of this chapter at YouTube
At 0:09 in the video, a speed limit sign on the street shows
SPEED LIMIT 45 and the YOUR SPEED digital signage shows
Niobe driving at 85!
At 1:25 in the video, a sign on a building reads "Creative
EAX, Advanced HD". EAX (Environmental Audio Extensions) is
an audio signal digital preset made by
Creative
Technology to create audio ambiance in video games. It
was in use roughly from 1999-2005, now supplanted by more
advanced sound technologies.
Enter the Matrix used
this audio
preset.
When Niobe and Ghost are jacked out of the Matrix back into
the physical world, Sparks asks them if they want a shot,
saying, "Dr. Feelgood can fix you up." "Dr. Feelgood" is a
nickname sometimes used for a physician who is willing to
give recreational drugs illegally to their patients.
Chapter 3: The Airport
View the walkthrough of this chapter at YouTube
In this mission, we see that, in the
Matrix, Morpheus has
a front company called the Daniel Institute of Dream
Interpretation which can be used by Zion
operatives to leave phone messages for Morpheus. Niobe
leaves a coded message there that the Osiris
message has been retrieved. The "Daniel" name likely comes
from the legend of King Nebuchadnezzar, who has his servant
Daniel interpret his dreams.
Ghost leaves a similar message with the Great Beyond
Travel Agency. The voice recording on the voice mail
message of the company is Ice.
Niobe and Ghost are dragged into an operation to help Soren
rescue Axel, who's been captured at the airport. We meet
Axel and Soren again in
The Matrix
Reloaded.
At 3:01 in the video, an advertising sign
for Pentium 4 is seen on a wall of the airport. Pentium 4
was a brand of
Intel CPUs for computers from 2000-2009. At 4:51 in the
video, an advertising sign for
Nvidia
with the slogan "The Way It's Meant to be Played" is seen on
an airport wall; this was an actual slogan used by the
company, known mostly for its graphics processing units. At
5:15 in the video, an advertising sign for the
Samsung
SPH-N270 cell phone is seen. These are the phones largely
used by Zion operatives inside the Matrix in
The Matrix
Reloaded and
The Matrix Revolutions.
These ads are repeated throughout the airport.
At 5:20 in the video, a vending machine for
Powerade is seen at the airport.
At 16:46 in the video, Ghost picks up a Sig Sauer AG SG 552
assault rifle dropped by a dead SWAT team member.
At 22:04 in the video, Niobe tells Ghost that Axel is about
to be flown out of the airport by his captors on a
Gulfstream.
Gulfstream is a designer and manufacturer of business
jets.
Ghost uses a
Barrett M95 Sniper rifle to shoot the front tire of the
Gulfstream as it taxis across the tarmac.
The police SUVs Ghost and Soren take on the tarmac are
GMC Yukon XLs.
Chapter 4: The Aqueduct
View the walkthrough of this chapter at YouTube
As this part of the game opens, the GMC Ghost is driving has
license plate AK966. But when he drives into the aqueduct,
the license plate has changed to CN501! The AK966 plate
number shows up again on a delivery truck in the later
chapters of
"Enter the Matrix".
At 0:56 in the video, an advertising billboard for Audigy 2
is seen along the aqueduct. Audigy 2 was a line of Sound
Blaster sound cards manufactured by Creative Technology.
Another, less prominent billboard for Audigy Sound Blaster
is seen about 25 seconds later. Billboards for the
aforementioned Pentium 4, EAX, and Nvidia are also seen
along the course of the aqueduct. Several of these
billboards are repeated along the course of the aqueduct.
At the end of the mission, Niobe is met by the Trainman, who
tells her that Zion lasted only 72 hours "last time". He is
referring to the machine attack against Zion during the
previous (fifth) iteration of the Matrix, though she doesn't
know what he's talking about at this point. That this is the
sixth iteration of the Matrix the Zionists will learn at the
end of
The Matrix
Reloaded. The Trainman will be
seen again in The Matrix Revolutions.
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