A new report reveals Kojima was asked to make a Matrix game, which he denies

A few years in the past, within the final century in reality, there have been rumours that Hideo Kojima was in talks to create a online game based mostly on the blockbuster movie The Matrix.  That by no means got here to cross and Shiny Leisure took the license and launched two video games which had been cannon throughout the Matrix universe. They had been Enter the Matrix and The Path of Neo, and each had been fairly good, I bear in mind spending most of 1 Christmas enjoying Enter The Matrix.

A brand new interview with Christopher Bergstresser, a former vp of licensing at Konami Digital Leisure, has revealed that “the Wachowskis had been massive followers of Kojima” and met with him together with Aki Saito and Kasumi Kitaue, an govt at Konami.

“The 2 of them got here in with their idea artist, and successfully they stated to Kojima, ‘We actually need you to do the Matrix recreation. Are you able to try this’?” recollects Christopher. “Aki translated this into Japanese for Mr. Kitaue, and Kitaue simply checked out them and instructed them plainly, ‘No’.”

It appears that evidently Kojima continued to have an interest within the thought, but it surely by no means got here to cross, most likely as Konami had him busy with Metallic Gear Stable 2 on the time.

UPDATE: Kojima has acknowledged that the assembly described beneath didn’t happen. He posted this message on Twitter:

“I used to be shocked to see on social media that the Wachowski sisters had “provided me a Matrix recreation venture!” again in 1999. In all these 26 years, nobody ever instructed me such a dialog had taken place. On the time, we had been mutual followers and exchanged emails. The Matrix hadn’t been launched in Japan but, however I had already seen it in theaters within the U.S. and at a preview screening.”

“When the Wachowskis got here to Japan for promotion, I consider I met them 3 times. Within the morning, we had a Famitsu interview in Shinjuku — that point, Geof Darrow joined us for the discuss session. Within the afternoon, they had been invited to the headquarters of KONAMI’s CS Division. Again then, I used to be Vice President of KCE JAPAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary. Once I arrived on the headquarters, their assembly with Mr. Kitaue, the pinnacle of the CS Division, had simply ended. I joined them afterward, and we chatted for about an hour with out an interpreter (Aki wasn’t even there). I feel John Gaeta, the visible results supervisor, was additionally current. That night, I attended the premiere screening and get together, the place I additionally met Joel Silver. Even then, there was no point out of a suggestion.”

“At the moment, I used to be already extraordinarily busy with MGS2 and doubtless couldn’t have accepted the provide immediately. But when somebody had instructed me, perhaps there may’ve been a technique to make it work.”

Authentic story continues beneath…

Kojima continued to correspond with the Wachowskis and in 2000 met with them to debate the similarities between their works.  “I’ve seen (The Matrix) 4 occasions. I like the sort of work. What I used to be planning on doing in my subsequent venture, they beautiful a lot made right into a movement image. We had been planning on sure issues like characters operating on partitions and such, however they’ve beat me to it (laughs).”

Later, Kojima’s hit Demise Stranding explored related themes as The Matrix franchise, such because the blurring of actuality and one other world, whereas the character Higgs is analogous to Agent Smith.

Nevertheless, this won’t be the tip of the story. Kojima is working on OD for Microsoft, and we now know that’s going to be an anthology horror recreation with a well-known administrators taking over an episode. The one confirmed identify is Jordan Peele, however the Wachowskis could be a wonderful alternative for an episode.

Supply: Timeextension.com