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Videogame music makes The Matrix better

VIDEO: Plus a hellishly good mystery mash-up to complete a double-bill of overdubbed wonderment

Words: David Houghton, GamesRadar UK

To tell you the truth, we nearly made a massive slip-up while putting together this week's edition. You see we'd planned to do The Matrix. Realising that the first movie is now 10 years old had made us feel ancient (doubly so when we considered that Batman is 20), and so in order to keep it evergreen and dateless in our hearts we decided to apply that most eternally modern of musical genres, mid-'90s MIDI metal. Nothing like a bit of the old Doom music to make you feel like a kid again.

So we did. And this is what we got. We quite liked it.

But then we realised something else. If we were using Doom music, there was another, much more obvious and deserving movie to re-edit. A cinematic disappintment that could have been saved completely, had it only taken our own approach to soundtracks. We couldn't believe we'd been so stupid as to nearly skip by its limitless potential in favour of a crusty old Keanu Reeves chop-socky flick. What fools we were. So we also made this. Because we just couldn't not.

Previous mash-ups

Star Wars
The Terminator 
Reservoir Dogs 
Bullitt 
Teletubbies
Rocky II

NOTE: This video is intended for parody purposes only. We sourced the video material used from 
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26 Comments
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Cyberninja  - 6 months 10 days ago 
you never know what great thing they will next do you
(first or last)
DaNtHeManIsHeRe  - 6 months 10 days ago 
You guys are geniuses
Desann  - 6 months 10 days ago 
Fantastic stuff!
fatdog12300  - 6 months 10 days ago 
i loved the random doom enemy in the matrix video. these are great.
NipplesTheSuperHippo  - 6 months 10 days ago 
that's pretty hardcore. It is amazing how well Doom really does fit into The Matrix quite well. Good work.
Ravenbom  - 6 months 10 days ago 
Love the videos, but you should add the sound of the Doom Marine trying to open a door before the door actually opens and when he's sort of looking at the wall right before he opens the door.
Mittenz  - 6 months 10 days ago 
Nice, we get two now? Love that red demon just hanging out in the background! reCAPTCHA:Mrs floral
Dameon Angell  - 6 months 10 days ago 
The doom noises to the doom movie was amazingly awesome.
Demonflare  - 6 months 10 days ago 
Greatness! :o
bamb0o-stick  - 6 months 10 days ago 
The bottom video was genius. Pure brilliance.
Hobojedi  - 6 months 10 days ago 
Hell yes. That was awesome.. but there's other doom tracks that you could have used besides EP1M1.
ssj4raditz  - 6 months 9 days ago 
Simply brilliant!
kyzer  - 6 months 9 days ago 
Can you please make one with "escape of the fortress" of MGS3 Soundtrack (the part when the shagohod is chasing you) and mash-up with the intro of Saving Private Ryan? that whould be awesome.
Reaper9324  - 6 months 9 days ago 
Not Even Doom Music justifies shooting security gaurds however awshum it may be.
Romination  - 6 months 9 days ago 
Man, I LOVE the Doom music! Now there's a soundtrack that doesn't get as much love as it should...
DRILLERDUD  - 6 months 9 days ago 
if the doom movie had all it's old sound effects and music in it, it'd actually be worth watching
d3athcr4ft  - 6 months 9 days ago 
This is why I visit GR every day! Awesome job, especially on the Doom video.
Mavarious  - 6 months 9 days ago 
These are the best ones so far by far
Samael  - 6 months 8 days ago 
Awesome, awesome, awesome. When you guys first started doing these I wasn't so sure about them. But you've hit your stride and they're getting better and better.
The_Tingler  - 6 months 8 days ago 
That's probably my second favourite after The Terminator! Excellent!

As for the Doom movie, you should've a) used a different piece of Doom music from The Matrix as there's LOADS of great ones, and b) done the whole 10-minute thing!
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