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.