Announced several years ago during the height of all the fervor about The Matrix, The Matrix Online has finally arrived. This massively multiplayer online role-playing game is in many ways comparable to the genre's popular entries, such as EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and City of Heroes. However, as anyone familiar with the movie franchise would figure, The Matrix Online has a number of its own twists. After dabbling in the free Matrix Online preview event held last week, we've jumped headlong into the newly released retail version of the game to get a feel for it (and to eventually bring you our full review). On first impression, The Matrix Online certainly seems different in a lot of ways from some of the other such games currently available, but how well the game finally shaped up really isn't clear. That is to say, we have our doubts. But so did Neo, right?