The Matrix Awakens UE5 PS5 and Xbox Series X/S demo will blow your socks off

(Pocket-lint) - Warner Bros and Epic Games person joined forces for a real-time demo of Unreal Engine 5 acceptable successful The Matrix universe.

The Matrix Awakens is an interactive acquisition disposable for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. It is designed to amusement disconnected UE5 successful spectacular fashion.

Starring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss - who besides reprise their roles arsenic Neo and Trinity respectively successful The Matrix Resurrections retired aboriginal this period - the demo has besides been made successful collaboration with manager Lana Wachowski.

It is disposable to download connected the PlayStation and Xbox stores now, having officially launched arsenic portion of The Game Awards 2021 connected Thursday. A trailer for it tin beryllium seen below.

"Created by members of the archetypal movie squad including Lana Wachowski on with Epic Games and partners, The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is simply a chaotic thrust into the reality-bending beingness of The Matrix that features performances by Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss," says the demo's description.

"Get acceptable for a glimpse into the aboriginal of interactive storytelling and amusement with UE5 successful this free, boundary-pushing cinematic and real-time tech demo."

The demo itself is interactive and divided into 2 chiseled sections. After being introduced by integer versions of Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, you instrumentality portion successful a high-speed, linear car pursuit whereby you person to sprout the tyres of the vehicles down you.

Then determination is an open-world conception for you to explore, which shows disconnected Unreal Engine 5's AI postulation and pedestrian abilities successful a realistic setting. To deliberation it is astir each being rendered successful real-time, it truly is rather incredible.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 6 December 2021.