The Matrix Awakens Tech Demo is Now Available

The Matrix Awakens Tech Demo

Epic Games have announced The Matrix Awakens tech demo is now available to download for consoles, giving players an idea of what Unreal Engine 5 can do.

While The Matrix Awakens tech demo is now available, you can download it now for Xbox Series X via the Xbox Store and for PlayStation 5 via the PlayStation Store.


Here’s a ten minute trailer on the recently-announced tech demo. A word of warning: it basically spoils the entire demo if you’re looking to actually see it running for yourself.

Here’s a rundown on the experience:

‘The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ is a free, boundary-pushing cinematic and open-world interactive tech demo that combines the power of Xbox Series X/S with UE5.

An original concept written and cinematically directed by Lana Wachowski and James McTeigue, this boundary-pushing technical demo features Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity while also—in a blending of the real and unreal—playing themselves.

Many of the VFX crew from the original film came back together for the digital execution of the experience, including John Gaeta, Kim Libreri, Jerome Platteaux, George Borshukov, and Michael Gay, in collaboration with teams across both Epic Games and partners such as SideFX, Evil Eye Pictures, WetaFX (formerly Weta Digital), and many others.

The demo morphs from breathtakingly realistic cinematic to fast-paced third-person shooter experience, complete with action-packed car chase sequence, and also provides a rich, vastly detailed open world to explore, set within the universe of ‘The Matrix’.

Download it now to experience the future of interactive storytelling and entertainment with UE5.”

The Matrix Resurrections is premiering on December 22nd, worldwide.

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