First Kaz makes a tech demo of a upscaled game, then Kojima made a tech demo that cost 39 bucks, now Epic Games makes a Matrix game just to show off a engine, lovely
Not much to say, but Unreal Engine 5 sure is beautiful.
a nice 10-15 minute romp with a limited sandbox but not much more, a cool experience for sure, a game it is lacking
Very pretty, the scale of the buildings was quite a marvel. Loved making cars jitter out of control. It'll be cool when most games this gen look like this, and here's to hoping they aren't too rushed to do so.
i drove on top of the ocean once lol, so much for a tech demo
I think it's the best graphics i've ever seen in a video game. but theres not much more to it. Just uses The Matrix as a reason to make this/a way to show it off while feeling futuristic i guess. The intro gameplay is very cool though.
I went into this game with no knowledge of the matrix movies, and I enjoyed it. (2023 UPDATE: I have seen the first 2 Matrix films and they were ok)
this is a tech demo alright
Spoiler alert: It's a tech demo! A demonstration of technology! It's not a full game, or even a complete game play experience, which seems to have escaped a lot of people on here! WHAT A CONCEPT!
And on that note, HOLY SHIT THE NEXT DECADE OF GAMING IS GOING TO BE STUNNING. I was legit in awe at the high quality of the character renders, and the way the photo realism held up as it moved between in-engine cinematics and fast-paced game play.
So, overall, this was cool!
And on that note, HOLY SHIT THE NEXT DECADE OF GAMING IS GOING TO BE STUNNING. I was legit in awe at the high quality of the character renders, and the way the photo realism held up as it moved between in-engine cinematics and fast-paced game play.
So, overall, this was cool!
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.
Not really a game, but a tech demo. And on that front, holy shit that's an absolutely gorgeous city.
This is one of the coolest things I have ever played, the level of detail in this is beyond words and the opening cinematic is mind blowing. The new Unreal 5 engine is absolutely awesome and I personally would love to see this became a full on game, it is that great to me.
Good graphics
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.
"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."
very good :)
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.
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 cool thing.
Warner Brothers has owned a key publishing giant of the video game industry for nearly 20 years about a cool computer world that easily could fit the modern open-world template and has only thought one time to even make a damn game based on it and none in the past 16 years at that?
Played on PS5
Also Available on Xbox Series X and S
Playtime: An Hour
No Spoilers
The Matrix Awakens is a tech demo developed and published by Epic Games. Directed and written by Lana Wachowski. It's a tech demo to showcase what Unreal Engine 5 can do and i have to say, it's pretty impressive.
There is not too much in the story department unfortunately. There is nothing in fact. We play as a woman, i don't know her name but no, it's not Trinity. And we shoot bad guys.
Core game takes about 15 minutes to beat, then you can do some other things that i don't want to talk about. They didn't show that part in the trailer and it was a very nice surprise for me. So yeah, you can spend a lot of time playing this game after you played that big action sequence.
It features Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss playing their iconic roles as Neo and Trinity, you can't play as them and both have a very small role but they do a great job.
Because it's a tech demo of course the most important thing is the graphics, the sound and the performance. Graphics are incredible. Faces looks stunning, you won't be able to tell the difference between what's real and what's in game, it's that good.
I played it with a headset, nothing interesting in the sound department. It doesn't sound bad, it just doesn't use 3D Audio or something like that. Or maybe it uses it and i didn't noticed. Performance is not good unfortunately. On PS5, there was multiple frame drops during the action scene.
It's a free demo so you can check it out. It's not something to go crazy but it was a good, enjoyable 15 minutes that takes a peek into the future of the video games.
Also Available on Xbox Series X and S
Playtime: An Hour
No Spoilers
The Matrix Awakens is a tech demo developed and published by Epic Games. Directed and written by Lana Wachowski. It's a tech demo to showcase what Unreal Engine 5 can do and i have to say, it's pretty impressive.
There is not too much in the story department unfortunately. There is nothing in fact. We play as a woman, i don't know her name but no, it's not Trinity. And we shoot bad guys.
Core game takes about 15 minutes to beat, then you can do some other things that i don't want to talk about. They didn't show that part in the trailer and it was a very nice surprise for me. So yeah, you can spend a lot of time playing this game after you played that big action sequence.
It features Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss playing their iconic roles as Neo and Trinity, you can't play as them and both have a very small role but they do a great job.
Because it's a tech demo of course the most important thing is the graphics, the sound and the performance. Graphics are incredible. Faces looks stunning, you won't be able to tell the difference between what's real and what's in game, it's that good.
I played it with a headset, nothing interesting in the sound department. It doesn't sound bad, it just doesn't use 3D Audio or something like that. Or maybe it uses it and i didn't noticed. Performance is not good unfortunately. On PS5, there was multiple frame drops during the action scene.
It's a free demo so you can check it out. It's not something to go crazy but it was a good, enjoyable 15 minutes that takes a peek into the future of the video games.
wow
En puros gráficos es un motor brutal, es bastante impresionante el nivel de realismo que alcanza. A nivel de "juego", está muy superado desde hace años, tanto de físicas como de comportamientos de la IA.
Es una curiosidad interesante, pero no pasa de ahí.
Es una curiosidad interesante, pero no pasa de ahí.
Floating about a city like a wee cyber ghost watching the world go by.
Muy interesante y prometedora demo de Unreal Engine 5. A ver cómo exprimen este motor los desarrolladores.
Unreal 5 needs Euphoria imo
All games need Euphoria
All games need Euphoria
A graphically impressive Tech demo, nothing more, nothing less
I mean, it's teach demo. Albeit an incredibly cool tech demo.
Very immersive shooter-pretender
Cool graphics bro
Cool graphics bro
Midtown Madness 2021
that sure was an Unreal Engine 5 experience