The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience

'The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience (2021)' is more of a tech demo than an actual game. It consists of two sections: a scripted car chase and an open-world city. The experience only has very simple gameplay, with the car chase being entirely on rails and the city segment lacking any meaningful interaction, but the thing isn't really about the gameplay. Instead, as its title suggests, it's a showcase for its engine. Its real-time graphics are stunning, especially when it comes to destruction and lighting, and the amount of detail that's crammed into the surprisingly large environment is truly impressive. The piece allows you to tweak things such as traffic amount and sun rotation, which further conveys the brilliance of the engine's real-time features. It's really only thanks to the power of the PS5 that the thing even runs at all (its frame-rate does drop significantly if you crash into several cars at once, but it holds up everywhere else). The narrative is a bit odd and overly meta (perhaps an appropriate taste of what's to come in 'The Matrix Resurrections (2021)?), but it only really serves as an excuse to show off UE5's impressive new features and it does that well enough. Though there isn't much to do, the demo is still worth experiencing. Plus, you'll get even more out of it if you're into games design or games art. It's perhaps a little underwhelming as a game, but as a tech demo it's awesome. 6/10.

The graphic are so real it was like i see it in real life with my own eyes but then i blank and see television.

It shows The power of next generation games.

I have to say how very impressed I was with the graphics. Normally a character would look computer generated but not this time. During the very short gameplay, I was amazed at how much Neo and Trinity looked. They didn't look CGI at all but fully fleshed people. I honestly hope that this becomes a full game one day.

Incredible showcase of what's possible , definitely worth a watch. Your able to explore a city made so realistic and alive while being able to change settings on the fly, lighting, particles, sun positioning, everything. I can't wait to see what will be created using the unreal engine.

Stellar graphics, let's just start there. The entire game is so realistic looking, and the opening sequence of your shooting incoming cars is quite fun, but at the end of the day, this is a demo, no if, ands, or buts. The amount of material this game has is lacking, especially once you hit the open-world portion of the game.

I loved this intro though. So cool they got both Keanu and Carrie to come back to their roles as Neo and Trinity, but the story is... well almost non-existent which makes this a bit hard to recommend as a must play for Matrix fans. It certainly is good, and Matrix fans will sure dig it. I mean, this is just a Unreal Engine 5 demo so the fact they decided to make it a sort of standalone Matrix game was neat. I just was very disappointed in the ending, as there really isn't an end at all, but it's just open world where you can go to certain markers and adjust/enhance graphics and stuff like that to see Unreal Engines full capability's. If you can somehow find this now defunct demo, I'd suggest giving it 10 minutes of your time since it's very short, fun, and shows how cool video games are going to look in the near future.