There was a time when there have been a number of video games based mostly on The Matrix motion pictures, and so they have been even fairly good at occasions. Right this moment, whereas online game variations are more durable to come back by (though you might be Neo or Trinity in Fortnite), followers should not sleep on a tabletop alternative to delve into the Matrix, with Upper Deck’s Legendary Encounters: The Matrix deckbuilding sport, out there on Amazon.
When you’re a tabletop or deckbuilding sport fan however unfamiliar with the Legendary sequence, you are lacking out. They seem to be a sequence of cooperative video games you’ll be able to play solo or with associates the place you battle in opposition to the deck, and so they’re constructed very well to seize the sensation of venturing into the licensed worlds they’re attempting to painting. The first Legendary sport was a Marvel superheroes deckbuilder and has a ton of expansions, however I’ve the primary Legendary Encounters, the place the franchise expanded into motion pictures with the Alien franchise. Whereas that one appears to be out of print, the sport manages to duplicate the precise really feel of the unique Alien franchise, however with playing cards, and never solely is it a enjoyable and well-designed sport, it is genuinely fairly tense for a sport you play with playing cards.
Legendary Encounters: The Matrix was launched in 2023, and captures the identical really feel of the movies and allows you to be part of up with as much as 4 different gamers, and consists of characters like Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus, in addition to villains similar to Agent Smith and the Merovingian. The sport is performed not solely with playing cards, however with a particular playmat that dictates the circulation of the sport and makes studying it a bit simpler, as effectively.
There are literally a ton of Legendary Encounters video games, dipping into plenty of completely different media franchises–some of that are even a bit surprising. Along with the Alien game (which I can not advocate sufficient), there’s additionally an X-Files edition and a James Bond edition, which additionally has a number of expansions based mostly on completely different motion pictures. Try the listing beneath, and find more on Amazon.
And if the Matrix deckbuilding sport conjures up a rewatch of the movie sequence, you should buy the four-film collection on 4K Blu-ray for $60.