The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience for PS5 and Xbox pre-download now available

From Gematsu: "The free technical demonstration was created by members of the original movie team along with Epic Games and partners, and showcases “what’s possible when you combine the power of Unreal Engine 5 with PlayStation 5.”

According to the description, the experience “will be revealed” at The Game Awards 2021 on December 9."

[CaptainHenry916]

I want to play it using Oculus rift

[Gaming4Life1981]

Yea me too, it would be epic on my rift s.

[frostypants]

I have things too! Hey who wants to hear what things I have?!

[DJStotty]

Like how this is painted as something exclusive to PS5, from the article :-

"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience for PS5, Xbox Series pre-download now available"

“what’s possible when you combine the power of Unreal Engine 5 with PlayStation 5 / Xbox Series X|S.”

https://www.xbox.com/en-us/...

Please change title and article description to add Series S|X.

Very tactically omitted, i must say.

[quenomamen]

And I’m sure you say the same when MS does this as well.

[DJStotty]

I will indeed, tags, title's and descriptions should always be fully accurate, Xbox sections included.

[mkis007]

It's a quote. For all you know, just being on X doesn't mean it's showing what's possible on unreal engine 5 if the ssd is the limiting factor.

[russo121]

Very good and valid point.

[iplay1up2]

The quote says "The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience for PS5 AND XBOX." It literally says "Unreal Engine 5 Experience" for BOTH consoles. How can you possibly interpret it any other way? You probably didn't even click the link, in the article to "learn more".

It says PS5 and Xbox Series consoles.

[DJStotty]

@mkis007

The exact same "experience" is available on the xbox store, so it will be showcasing exactly the same features as the PS5 version.

People need to understand, that the UE5 features showcased a while back, Lumen and Nanite, are also available on Series of consoles.

[CrimsonWing69]

Am I missing something here? The headline includes Xbox and the article mentions Xbox.

[darthv72]

It didn't initially. Looking at the submission info, the title was changed a few hours ago after submission.

[SpineSaw]

@CrinsonWings69
Yes but the "fanboys" can only read and see things the way they want to read and see them so it can fit their narrative.

[DJStotty]

@Crimsonwing69

Xbox was added after my initial comment, and they still limited it to "xbox" as opposed to "Xbox Series S|X".

[UltimateOwnage]

Well, Sony did pay some hard cash for minority ownership in the company and have gotten PS5 UE5 integration touted a bit more because of it: https://www.polygon.com/pla...

[Babadook7]

Sure. But Ps5 was influenced by UE5 and vice versa.

[Einhander1971]

Yes but it's all about PS5 !!

[Lightning77]

A matrix game that's only in next gen? YES PLEASE

[iplay1up2]

The newer systems have been out for over a year. I think that makes it current gen. Yes I am glad they are purely focused on the newer hardware though.

[Fishy Fingers]

CGI Keanu looking pretty lifelike.

[1nsomniac]

Crazy life like. Genuinely took me a few seconds before I realised.

[IanTH]

From what I can tell, this is not hitting PC...it's UE5, why not? I don't have a new gen console yet, but have a capable PC. Not only strange to limit the audience, but they "partnered' with Epic...how is this not at least on the Epic store?

[Eonjay]

I'm sure it will come to PC as well. Its coming to Series S after all. I also heard that the UE5 can also run on last gen consoles too.

[Fishy Fingers]

UE5 can run on mobile phones. It's scalable.

[Ethereal]

Rad.

[Magog]

So not a game but an "app" like Abandoned? Hmm....

[frostypants]

It's a free promotional thing. You expected more?

[Magog]

Chex came with a free game. 🙄

[ApocalypseShadow]

I'd bet that that was a Meta Human Keanu created in UE5.

Yeah. This seems to be just like when the Matrix was done years ago at Siggraph with 16 PS2 systems(GS Cube) running in parallel.
https://youtu.be/yB0-EvK9Y7...
I figured it might be in another article as a possibility.

Oh well. I still would like a Matrix VR game. This should be interesting though.

[dbcoops]

Looking forward to seeing UE5 and the power of the PS5 coming together for this.

[Orchard]

This will be the first time we have a tech demo (or any kind of product) to properly compare UE5 on PS5 and XSX. Also interested to see how the engine scales down to Series S. It should make for an interesting Digital Foundry video.

Sure, Fortnite has launched UE5 on those consoles, but that isn't really pushing any boundaries.

[sourOG]

So it’s basically an interactive story to show off unreal 5 on the new consoles? It will be cool to see the cinematic side but I think a more practical demonstration would be cooler. “He’s what a real game with 100k systems running looks like” instead of dedicated demo. I’m excited either way though, I’m hyped to see more unreal 5 and I’m a matrix fan.

[iraqmilner]

Think this title is actually worth pre-downloading?