At a press event held on a Warner Bros. studio lot Tuesday night, Infogrames and developer Shiny Entertainment showed off the first of their games based on the popular The Matrix franchise. The game is slated for release on the GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox platforms under the Atari brand and will be based on the upcoming The Matrix Reloaded movie due this May. Rather than try to create a game that closely follows the events seen in the upcoming film, Shiny worked with Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski to create a story that would allow the game to tell an original tale that will intertwine with events and characters from the film and expand on the movie's narrative. The game will focus on two characters, Niobe and Ghost, although characters such as Neo and Trinity will also make appearances as the story unfolds.

　　The event began with the premiere of The Final Flight of the Osiris, a CG movie short introduced by producer Joel Silver. Silver stated that the short was the next step in the continuing story of the world of The Matrix. The short is part of a series of shorts called The Animatrix that will all tie into the film series' narrative. Silver stated that the shorts will be distributed in a variety of ways, noting that the first of the shorts would be available on animatrix.com later in the evening free of charge. The shorts are part of an idea the Wachowskis had to tell the story of The Matrix across a variety of mediums. The Final Flight of the Osiris will open theatrically on March 21 and precede the Castle Rock film The Dreamcatcher.

　　The Final Flight of the Osiris starts the saga that will be completed in the two upcoming The Matrix movies, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. The piece, which ran roughly 16 minutes and featured work from Square USA that surpassed the impressive work done in the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, opened with a slick fight sequence between an Asian woman named Jue and an African-American man named Thaddeus. The pair fight with swords and hack away at each other's gi's until they are both left standing in their underwear. The playful bout is cut short following a message that prompts them to leave their virtual training room and return to the real world--the interior of a ship called the Osiris, where Thaddeus is informed that the ship is being tracked by a pack of sentinels. As the ship attempts to lose the mechanoids, it stumbles upon something that threatens Zion, the last bastion of humanity. Faced with overwhelming odds, Thaddeus sends Jue into the matrix with a warning for Zion. While Jue delivers the message--in the form of a package--in the matrix, it's unclear if it will reach Zion in time.

　　Following the short, Silver stated that the story begun in The Last Flight of the Osiris would continue in the game and introduced a trailer for the Enter the Matrix games. The trailer featured snippets of the game's story, which appears to focus on the race to find the mysterious package and retrieve its message before humanity is lost. How much of the game's plot is connected with the movie's was unclear, but Silver stated that playing through the game would give people a broader understanding of the overall story. The presentation ended with comments from Infogrames' Bruno Bonnell, Shiny Entertainment's Dave Perry, and the game's cast, including Jada Pinkett Smith.