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Enter The Matrix
''Enter the Matrix'' is a 2003 action-adventure video game developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand name. It was the first game based on ''The Matrix'' film series. Its story is concurrent with that of the film ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and features over an hour of original footage, written and directed by the Wachowskis and starring the cast of the films, produced for the game. Released in May 2003, the same month as ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''Enter the Matrix'' was simultaneously produced with ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions''. While it received mixed reviews from critics, the game sold 5 million copies as of May 2004. Gameplay ''Enter the Matrix'' gives players control of two of the supporting characters from ''Reloaded'' and ''Revolutions'', Ghost ( Anthony Wong) and Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith), members of the same group of rebels as Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo, the protagonists of the series. Niobe is the Captai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiny Entertainment
Shiny Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Laguna Beach, California. Founded in October 1993 by David Perry (game developer), David Perry, Shiny was the creator of video games such as ''Earthworm Jim (video game), Earthworm Jim'', ''MDK'' and ''Enter the Matrix''. Perry sold the company to Interplay Productions in 1995, which sold the studio to Infogrames, Inc. in 2002. After Foundation 9 Entertainment acquired Shiny in 2006, the company was merged with The Collective (company), The Collective in October 2007, creating Double Helix Games. History Background and formation (1980s–1993) David Perry (game developer), David Perry, a video game programmer from Northern Ireland, created his first video game in 1982, when he was 15, for the Sinclair ZX81 that he had at home. This led him to move to London, England, shortly following his 17th birthday, where would work with several early video game developers on games for the ZX Spectrum. One of these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Arts
Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defense; military and law enforcement applications; combat sport, competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage. Etymology According to Paul Bowman, the term ''martial arts'' was popularized by mainstream popular culture during the 1960s to 1970s, notably by Hong Kong martial arts films (most famously those of Bruce Lee) during the so-called "chopsocky" wave of the early 1970s. According to John Clements, the term '':wikt:martial art, martial arts'' itself is derived from an older Latin (language), Latin term meaning "arts of Mars (mythology), Mars", the Roman mythology, Roman god of war, and was used to refer to the combat systems of Europe (European martial arts) as early as the 1550s. The term martial science, or martial sciences, was commonly used to refer to the fighting arts of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullet Time
Bullet time (also known as frozen moment, dead time, flow motion or time slice) is a visual effect or visual impression of detaching the time and space of a camera (or viewer) from those of its visible subject. It is a depth enhanced simulation of variable-speed action and performance found in films, broadcast advertisements, and realtime graphics within video games and other special media. It is characterized by its extreme transformation of both time (slow enough to show normally imperceptible and unfilmable events, such as flying bullets), and of space (by way of the ability of the camera angle—the audience's point-of-view—to move around the scene at a normal speed while events are slowed). This is almost impossible with conventional slow motion, as the physical camera would have to move implausibly fast; the concept implies that only a "virtual camera", often illustrated within the confines of a computer-generated environment such as a virtual world or virtual reality, wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third-person View
In 3D video games, a virtual camera system aims at controlling a camera or a set of cameras to display a view of a 3D virtual world. Camera systems are used in video games where their purpose is to show the action at the best possible angle; more generally, they are used in 3D virtual worlds when a third-person view is required. As opposed to filmmakers, virtual camera system creators have to deal with a world that is interactive and unpredictable. It is not possible to know where the player character is going to be in the next few seconds; therefore, it is not possible to plan the shots as a film maker would do. To solve this issue, the system relies on certain rules or artificial intelligence to select the most appropriate shots. There are mainly three types of camera systems. In ''fixed camera systems'', the camera does not move at all and the system displays the player's character in a succession of still shots. ''Tracking cameras'', on the other hand, follow the characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassination
Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have a direct role in matters of the state, may also sometimes be considered an assassination. An assassination may be prompted by political and military motives, or done for financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from a desire to acquire fame or notoriety, or because of a military, security, insurgent or secret police group's command to carry out the assassination. Acts of assassination have been performed since ancient times. A person who carries out an assassination is called an assassin or hitman. Etymology The word ''assassin'' may be derived from '' asasiyyin'' (Arabic: أَسَاسِيِّين, ʾasāsiyyīn) from أَسَاس (ʾasās, "foundation, basis") + ـِيّ (-iyy), meaning "people who are faithful to the founda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Mate
A chief mate (C/M) or chief officer, usually also synonymous with the first mate or first officer, is a licensed mariner and head of the deck department of a merchant ship. The chief mate is customarily a watchstander and is in charge of the ship's cargo and deck crew. The actual title used will vary by ship's employment, by type of ship, by nationality, and by trade: for instance, ''chief mate'' is not usually used in the Commonwealth, although ''chief officer'' and ''first mate'' are; on passenger ships, the first officer may be a separate position from that of the chief officer that is junior to the latter. The chief mate answers to the captain for the safety and security of the ship. Responsibilities include the crew's welfare and training in areas such as safety, firefighting, search and rescue. Senior on board Operations Manager The Chief Mate, who is the second in command of the vessel, is often equated, in corporate terms, to a senior manager for the operations on bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo (The Matrix)
Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for Neo) is a fictional character and the protagonist of ''The Matrix (franchise), The Matrix'' franchise, created by the Wachowskis. He was portrayed as a cybercriminal and computer programmer by Keanu Reeves in the films, as well as having a cameo in ''The Animatrix'' short film ''Kid's Story''. Andrew Bowen provided Neo's voice in ''The Matrix: Path of Neo''. In 2021, Reeves reprised his role in ''The Matrix Resurrections'' with what Vulture.com, ''Vulture'' calls "his signature John Wick (character), John Wick look". In 2008, Neo was selected by ''Empire (magazine), Empire'' as the 68th Greatest Movie Character of All Time... Neo is also an anagram of "one", a reference to his destiny of being ''The One'' who would bring peace. There are claims that Neo (nightclub), a nightclub in Chicago inspired the name of the character. Neo is considered to be a superhero. Fictional character biography Thomas A. Anderso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity (The Matrix)
Trinity is a fictional character in the ''Matrix'' franchise. She is portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss in the films. In the gameplay segments of ''Path of Neo'', she is voiced by Jennifer Hale. Trinity first appears in the 1999 film ''The Matrix''. Character overview Like the series' other main characters, Trinity is a computer programmer and a hacker who has escaped from the Matrix, a sophisticated computer program where most humans are imprisoned. Though few specifics are revealed about her previous life inside the Matrix, it is told that she cracked a database so secure that she is famous among hackers, and that Morpheus, one of a number of real-world hovercraft commanders, initially identified her and helped her escape from the program. At the beginning of the series, she is first mate on Morpheus' ''Nebuchadnezzar'' and serves mainly as a go-between for him and the individuals he wishes to free from the Matrix. As the series progresses, her primary importance as a character bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpheus (The Matrix)
Morpheus () is a fictional character in ''The Matrix'' franchise. He is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the first three films, and in the video game '' The Matrix: Path of Neo'', where he was the only original actor to reprise his character's voice. In ''The Matrix Resurrections'', an AI program based on him is portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Concept and creation Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the creators of ''The Matrix'' franchise, instructed Fishburne to base his performance on Morpheus, a character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series ''The Sandman''. At the studio's request, Gaiman later wrote "Goliath", a promotional short story set in the film's universe. The name Morpheus is that of the god of dreams in Greek mythology, which is consistent with the character's involvement with the "dreaming" of the Matrix. The mythical Morpheus and his family, including two brothers (Phobetor and Phantasos), lived in a dream world protected by the Gates of Morpheus with two monsters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (; née Pinkett; born September 18, 1971) is an American actress and talk show host. She is co-host of the Facebook Watch talk show '' Red Table Talk'', for which she has received a Daytime Emmy Award. ''Time'' named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021. Pinkett Smith landed her big break on the sitcom ''A Different World'' in 1991. She went on to star in films such as ''Menace II Society'' (1993), The Nutty Professor (1996 film), ''The Nutty Professor'' (1996)'','' ''Set It Off (film), Set It Off'' (1996), and ''Scream 2'' (1997) before her prominent contributions to ''The Matrix Reloaded'' (2003), ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (2003) and the animated Madagascar (franchise), ''Madagascar'' films. She returned to television with starring roles on ''Hawthorne (TV series), Hawthorne'' (2009–2011) and ''Gotham (TV series), Gotham'' (2014–2017). Her other acting roles include ''Magic Mike XXL'' (2015), ''Bad Moms'' (2016), ''Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niobe (The Matrix)
Niobe is a fictional character in ''The Matrix'' franchise. She is portrayed by Jada Pinkett Smith. She serves as a supporting character in the three sequels of the original film, ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''The Matrix Revolutions'' and ''The Matrix Resurrections'', and one of the protagonists of the video game ''Enter the Matrix''. Niobe also appears in the MMORPG ''The Matrix Online''. In the game, however, Niobe's character voicing is portrayed by Gina Torres, who portrayed the minor Zion character Cas in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions''. Background Niobe is a human from Zion, being one of the rebels participating in the war against the Machines and the Matrix. She is the captain and pilot of a Zion hovercraft, the ''Logos'', the smallest (and therefore most maneuverable) ship in the human fleet with a crew of only three: herself, weapons expert and First Mate Ghost, and Operator Sparks. Within the virtual world of the Matrix, Niobe is one of Zion' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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