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Bit late to the party but holy crap the Matrix awakens Demo on PS5 was a sight to behold. First time after Detroit become Human I was truly wowed in a game visually, especially on that Action setpiece. Excellent ! 🔥

Cool next-gen showcase thing. Would love a full Matrix game with this level of production quality.

Took us like 10 minutes to get out-of-bounds. It was dope.

Gramphix

Best advertisement I’ve ever played


It looks good but this really has nothing going for it.

I mean it’s a tech demo so it’s basically an empty city to walk around in. Additionally, it had some major FPS stuttering while driving. However, this game is a revelation for graphics. It’s amazing to be able to zoom into any texture and just be greeted by the most detailed things and see cars driving while above the city. It’s truly just makes you excited for the next Gen.

Beyond the beautiful lighting, impressive environmental detail and the option to fly the camera anywhere, the vehicle damage model makes it really fun to smash cars into each other.

Really beatiful tech demo for UE5, and a huge marketing idea for the upcoming movie, don't know if I can rate this as a game since it's not, so I'll just let it here

Played on Series S. Still looks incredible. Not a full game though

that sure was an Unreal Engine 5 experience

I mean, it's teach demo. Albeit an incredibly cool tech demo.

Not really a game, but a tech demo. And on that front, holy shit that's an absolutely gorgeous city.

This was cool and looks amazing... why couldn't this be an actual game rather then a tech demo though? Seriously, just make a big budget Matrix game that's awesome, we all want it. I'm begging you Warner Bros PLEASE! 😭

If we don't have a new Matrix game within 10 years I quit gaming

Definitely leaves a cool first impression. Shame I don't think the hardware for consoles is there just yet to really hit on this game. You can see the limits of the simulation bursting at the seams here.

But it's worth noting this isn't really a game. It's just a glimpse into graphical tech that can do some real work here. The night time lighting is truly surreal and looks pretty spot on after you turn off the Matrix tint.

"we made a game that looks just like real life. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. no not that one. yeah that one. this one is the one. it looks just like real life."

Bonito e massa os carrim batendo

It's a neat little tech demo with some impressive stuff shown. I don't get any wow factor from it though as the framerate is really low and the motion blur is atrocious. Still neat though!

got the car to go 140 mph but then i kept crashing

A cold virtual world generated by machines, sounds pretty familiar...

Not something I can really rate as it is just a tech demo, but it is a pretty impressive showcase for what's possible with Unreal 5

Visually speaking, this tech demo is pretty impressive. Still, there's a lingering uncanny feeling in facial details, and the overall performance is sluggish. Nonetheless, this is an impressive - free - demo for owners of current-gen hardware I suppose.


The future of gaming!


10.000 thousand developer layoffs

God, I really hope they make a Matrix game. It better be with Keanu Reaves, that would be the game of the year.

Epic, this tech demo could have been a video. I would have believed you if you'd told me it was all in engine in unreal 5 and I wouldn't have had to download 27gb for a 10 minute car chase and perhaps the lamest open world experience conceivable.

Ok in fairness, the car chase portion is decently cool. It's very matrix reloaded, and despite one or two framerate hitches it's pretty visually impressive, as are the recreations of keanu and carrie ann moss, which you really need to squint at to see the uncanny valley-ness of it.

But there's so little here to talk about. The tech demo opens with a statement from keanu about tech and reality converging and shit but then completely drops it like a minute after and doesnt seem to actually have a point to make other than "damn, unreal 5 is pretty sick huh".

The open world section after the car chase is so pathetic I have no idea what it's purpose is. And it doesn't even look that amazing! It looks like Watch dogs! And all you can do is rob cars and run about!

Just watch the car chase on youtube.


A neat thing to check out what the future of gaming can look like. The city and cars cars look incredible. The figures and their animations are not quite at the same level yet.