(Every time he passes a mirror, the bearded, long-haired Reeves who appears in it is video footage otherwise, he's all digital. He strolls through moments from the first film while pondering the original trilogy's questions about what is and isn't real. The first is a narrative sequence that doesn't respond to button taps, and it opens with a digital facsimile of actor Keanu Reeves-not playing a character, just Keanu being Keanu-remarking on The Matrix. Only a few choice snippets of the demo, now downloadable via Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, consist of premade video footage, which I skipped in favor of the impressive faces, action sequences, and cityscapes that UE5 is apparently equipped to render on the latest home consoles. What's more, every image in this article was not only captured on my own home Series X but is also, according to Epic Games, rendered in real time. This brand-new Unreal Engine 5 showcase, now downloadable on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, is rendered almost entirely in real time on current-gen consoles. Tonight, another unbelievable demo joins its ranks: The Matrix Awakens.
Modern games rarely come with this sort of useless, whimsical tech demo, and similar tech muscle-flexes on consoles have been rare in the years since the N64's '90s heyday. This fascinating tech demo (whose creator opines about it in a May 2021 interview) is the first thing you see upon booting the N64's signature game, and it was a declaration of the N64's potential 3D prowess, well ahead of the likes of Sony's first PlayStation. 2021 is the 25th anniversary of a gaming-related milestone: the Super Mario 64 face.
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