For the uninitiated, the ants are a reference to the work of the late M.C. Escher, the worlds foremost artist on optical illusionist art. The château that you are running around in is a representation of his art work, an indirect copy to be exact of one of his most popular works, and the ants, much like Salvador Dali's signature melting clocks feature prominently through-out most of his illustrations. The man created numerous artworks where one would never be quite sure of what was really the ground or the ceiling in a piece, or if what you perceived to be both were actually the walls. M.C. Escher designed bank notes in his later years for some of the worlds most prolific banks and transaction companies as the work that went into his pieces could not easily be forged or reproduced by forgers. If you consider the train scene earlier in the game, where the carriage is sitting differently every time you enter it, and the scene from the movies where Seraph, Trinity and Morpheus are in the lobby of the Frenchman and his henchmen (no poetry intended) are running up walls and on the ceiling, one would have expected to see the ants later in the game, as the worldly Frenchman is full of mind bending tricks and illusions...
Review of The Matrix: Path of Neo
