![]() If you go to the official The Matrix Awakens website, text scrawls across the screen that asks us to “step into a world where anything is possible.” It’s funny then, that once we are granted control over this technical demo for Unreal Engine 5, we’re only able to shoot things on-rails until they explode – the same offering video games presented when developers made the transition to 3D back in the ’90s. “…Me too,” she responds with a hesitant smirk. ![]() “I sometimes miss this version of us,” Neo whispers, leaning in towards Trinity. It’s a visually astonishing sequence, showing characters that exist exclusively in the past running lines that were never committed to tape – filmed with a quality of camera that simply didn’t exist at the time. Then The Matrix Awakens transforms into a nostalgia rush I wasn’t quite prepared for, allowing us to ride shotgun with a de-aged Trinity and Neo as they banter back-and-forth like it’s 1999 again, all while engaged in a high-speed chase through a dense and beautifully detailed urban cityscape. “20 years ago we asked ourselves how long it would be before faces and bodies could be changed as easily as we change clothes… and what would reality be when a world we can build feels as real as our own?” Conan Chop Chop Switch NSP ![]() “In an industry where actors have tried to remain perpetually young,” Reeves says, before his character model seamlessly shifts to Reeves looking just as he did when Neo helped us question where the digital age might take cinema 22 years ago, “we wondered about digital faces that can become immortal.” It’s at this point that Carrie-Anne Moss shows up. It looks good, it looks weird, and it made me a little uncomfortable – it’s interactive storytelling operating at a level of visual fidelity that we’ve never seen before. This Unreal Engine 5 experience isn’t hovering on the purview of the uncanny valley so much as it is diving straight into it, particularly in the moments where a pristinely rendered 57-year old Keanu Reeves breaks the fourth wall to walk us through digital recreations of the Matrix’s most famous sets. If The Matrix Awakens proves anything – a free download is available right now for PS5 and Xbox Series X – it’s that we are now staring down the barrel of photorealism. The Matrix Awakens An Unreal Engine 5 PS5 Free Download Romslab
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