Perhaps 'Enter The Matrix' was enjoyable for some, but if you read the full preview of that EGM spread, then you were convinced that it was going to be an amazing game.
I freakin traded in my copy of Halo1 toward the purchase of it. Imagine how stupid I felt afterwards.
It was a classic example of the type of journalistic malpractice that Total Biscuit condemns on his youtube channel.
I wish I could see screenshots of that EGM preview just to enforce in my mind that is was as bad as I remember. It's been 12 years.