During the Game Awards, Epic Games announced that The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is now available to download for free on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. This technical demo is set within the world of The Matrix. Written and cinematically directed by Lana Wachowski, it features Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. We captured this rather impressive experience on Xbox Series X in 4K.
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Commented on 2021-12-11 10:35:09This looks incredible honestly, and actually shows what is possible in games, since they mentioned that there is CPU overhead for more advanced gameplay systems, more AI, etc. Fine, this is what I wanted from this gen and seems like we are going to get it. Sweet.
Commented on 2021-12-11 14:53:18
Commented on 2021-12-11 15:52:11Density is the key word, as everything has a weight to it. There's many options to toggle the graphics, settings, time of day, etc. Like many people have said, this shows how a GTA 6 can potentially look like. Once there's more current gen consoles on people's house and cross gen games are a very small minority, then we will start seeing more gorgeous and complex games.
We can't forget that both PS4 and XB1 already had bad specs at their time of release, specially the CPU, which hindered a lot of what developers could achieve in highly complex systems, once most AAA games focus only on PS5 and XBSX/S, we will start to see this console generation finally shine.
Commented on 2021-12-11 16:43:58 In reply to SdartsPS4 didn't had to wait +1 year to give "next-gen" showcases, not just a pretty Tech demo. It had it from the get-go in spades.
Commented on 2021-12-12 18:19:33Lots of kudos to Epic for Lumen and their virtualized geometry tech Nanite!
Commented on 2021-12-13 08:44:25
Commented on 2021-12-14 04:16:03 In reply to unknownuser0001
Commented on 2021-12-14 13:31:21 In reply to Nuki