Go into a massively multiplayer game and you'll usually find one or more of the following: a persistent online world, the ability to create a character you'll develop over time after successfully enduring battles and quests, other like-minded players to join you in your adventures, or elves. In The Matrix Online from Monolith, you'll find all but one of these (and we'll let you guess which one). In the game, which is based on The Matrix motion pictures, you won't play as a virtual computer character. Instead, you'll play as a real live person...who is playing as a virtual computer character. That's right. You'll take the role of a person recently awakened from the embryonic tanks of "the Machines" (the killer robots with whom the humans struck an uneasy truce in the third and final motion picture) who stays jacked into a virtual world where martial arts, small-arms fire, computer programs, and leather pants are all commonplace. The game is currently in a beta test state, and we're pleased to announce that the leather pants work great.