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The Matrix Awakens An Unreal Engine 5 PS5 Free Download GAMESPACK.NET The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is an astonishing glimpse into the future of video game graphics. That much I expected, but here’s what surprised me: this technical demo is strangely touching in its message and presentation, particularly for any of you who are old enough to remember watching The Matrix back in 1999. And perhaps more surprising, is how The Matrix Awakens inadvertently highlights the limitations of play as we know them today. 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. 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. 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. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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“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. “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?” 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. 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. “I sometimes miss this version of us,” Neo whispers, leaning in towards Trinity.

Car chases.

she responds with a hesitant smirk. I’m not crying – you’re crying. 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. We take control of a character I can’t say I recognise from any of the original trilogy films or promotional material from The Matrix Resurrections, who bites back at Neo that “I was told that this was a sim preparing me to fight the system.” “Right on,” he responds, before flying off toward the horizon. It’s at this point that we shoot at tires with a massive handgun until approaching cars explode or roll into incoming traffic. It’s an ostentatious chase sequence that you could imagine Sony using to sell a new generation of PlayStation console a decade ago; no depth, all sizzle. The coolest part of this entire sequence is as you take aim at the various Agent Johnsons leaping between cars, the bonnets buckle under his weight. Hitman 3 PS5

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Firing at the Agents will force them to shift around the trajectory of your bullets in real-time – a famous effect from the movies, but one I can’t say that I’ve seen so accurately rendered in-game, in real-time, before. The Matrix Awakens is weird in that it’s undoubtedly the best looking interactive experience on PS5 and Xbox Series X, but it plays just as something on the PS1 or original Xbox might have done. This is just a tech presentation, sure, one designed to showcase the underlying capabilities of Unreal Engine 5, but it’s telling that the language of play used to demo such a host of innovations is so dated. We already knew from seeing the ‘Lumen in the Land of Nanite’ demo from May 2020 that Unreal Engine 5 could push visual boundaries. The Matrix Awakens only confirms that, particularly as the Lumen ‘dynamic global illumination and reflections’, Nanite ‘virtualized geometry’, and MetaHuman ‘next generation digital human’ innovations are shown off alongside Mass AI and World Partition systems – showcasing the way UE 5 can govern large realistic crowds and the speed in which content can now be streamed into the player’s eyeline in an open world setting.

Dynamic Combat.

It’s truly impressive, and I honestly can’t wait to see the first wave of video games embracing Unreal Engine 5. However, at some point, developers are going to have to reckon with how technology like Unreal Engine 5 can be used to help push the boundaries of play. Maybe a tech demo like The Matrix Awakens isn’t the right venue for that – it almost definitely isn’t – but that isn’t to say that I’m not eagerly looking forward to seeing it. The Matrix lets us “step into a world where anything is possible” and given the quality of the visual experience here, I’d loved to have seen that sentiment reflected in the way we could interact with this world as well. When the first movie of the blockbuster Matrix trilogy was released in 1999, it was a glimpse into the high-tech future that the globe was about to cruise into. The groundbreakingly futuristic and realistic animations in the film made us all feel like we were in the shoes of Thomas Anderson or “Neo” as Keanu Reeves displayed his Matrix-style flexibility to dodge bullets fired by scores of Agent Smiths. Now, it’s time to add some tactile feel to the captivating universe of the Matrix as we experience it. Silent Sector Switch NSP

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The Matrix universe has always been a pleasure for sci-fi fans but considering its high-tech theme, it’s the perfect medium to set a game in. The first game set in the Matrix universe was “Enter the Matrix,” which got lukewarm reviews at best. It was no masterpiece in any sense of the word. Nevertheless, Matrix is so strong as a franchise for its fans that it’s one of the few games that fared better in user reviews rather than critic reviews on Metacritic. For any other game, this is usually the other way around as gamers themselves can be a lot more critical towards a product than magazines as they are the ones paying their hard-earned money to play. Later on, the Matrix Online, a massively-multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) was released. Another “meh” product that could only gain some popularity thanks to the strength of the franchise it was representing. And then there was Matrix – Path of Neo. Yet another average game – and a very underrated one as some might say – of a spectacular franchise. The thing that made Matrix fans love such mediocre games was the Matrix itself – but things are probably about to change.

Performance is just not there.

Because the Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) showcase demo, the Matrix Awakens looks promising, even with a couple shortcomings intact. So let’s take a look. To set the record straight: There is no confirmation that this impressive piece of tech, the Matrix Awakens, will become a fully-fledged game. This is just a genius advertisement for Epic Games’ new game engine UE5. It is meant to showcase the technical capabilities of the engine and how realistic it can make games look. Just like we have seen in last year’s “Lumen in the Land of Nanite,” which was another showcase of UE5’s capabilities, the Matrix Awakens may well end up being just a commercial intended for the general audience. “Lumen in the Land of Nanite” was only intended to be an advertisement for UE5, as “lumen” and “nanite” were two references to the lighting and virtualized geometry capabilities of the UE5. Nevertheless, as the fourth movie in the Matrix series, Matrix Resurrections is underway and the popularity of the franchise is hitting a peak once again after all those years, it wouldn’t be silly to assume that the people behind the impressive tech demo will continue their work to make it a fully-fledged game.

I installed it on my Xbox Series S and played it on a 1080P TV, as the currency situation in Turkey does not allow for a better experience, so it wouldn’t be fair to criticize the visuals from my own experience. Nevertheless, the demo still looks sharp, beautiful and truly dystopian – just like in the franchise. Watching people on YouTube play the demo on their fancy PlayStation 5’s and Xbox Series X’s made me believe that I’m not missing out on much – sure the visuals are better thanks to a superior console outputting in a 4K resolution, but the main problem is the frame rate, which is below average at best. Of course, it’s a demo, but I’d expect at least a stable 60, or even 30 FPS on the powerful PS5 or Series X. But just like I experienced, the frame rates hover at around below-30 level for most of the time. Another shortcoming is the car driving mechanics: It is nearly a pain to drive around the fictional version of the New York City with those janky driving mechanics. Of course, the developers behind this demo will probably optimize the frame rates and polish driving mechanics if they do decide to make this into a real game, so not a huge issue.

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What’s really beautiful is the freedom that a free demo grants you. After finishing an impressive prologue that shows UE5’s capabilities in particle and explosion physics by firing a lot of bullets against car tires and Agent Smiths, you can just cruise around the city as much as you want, drive over Matrix people who instantly dissolve into the trademark “Matrix code” the moment you hit them with a car, enjoy the beautifully crafted and huge city. I mean, huge. According to an article written by Richard Leadbetter on Eurogamer.net, the city in the game is 4,138 kilometers wide and 4.968 kilometers long (2,571 miles wide and 3,086 miles long), slightly larger than the size of real-life downtown Los Angeles. The city surface is 15.79 square kilometers (about six square miles) while the city perimeter is 14.519 kilometers long; there are 260 kilometers of roads in the city while there are 512 kilometers of sidewalks in the virtual NYC. There are 1,248 intersections and 45,073 parked cars, of which 38,146 are drivable and destructible. There are 17,000 simulated traffic vehicles on the road that are destructible too; and 7,000 buildings. Those are incredibly impressive specs for a full-fledged game, let alone a demo.  Vae Victis Conquer Ravish Breed

Note: This game will only run on consoles with the original firmware that are connected to the PSN online account and purchased the game from PSN.

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