Whereas we had been all gushing over The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience, one veteran recreation developer was reminiscing in regards to the time he developed the 2003 online game Enter the Matrix at Shiny Leisure.
Chandana Ekanayake, now co-founder and artistic director of Outerloop Video games, tweeted that he’s having “enjoyable” wanting on the gorgeous Unreal Engine 5 demo on the PlayStation 5 and evaluating it to his time growing Enter the Matrix for PlayStation 2 (it additionally launched on GameCube, Xbox, and PC).
The brand new Matrix Expertise in UE5 on PS5 is enjoyable to take a look at and evaluate to my time engaged on Enter the Matrix on PS2. It’s come a great distance 🙂 pic.twitter.com/nsVJEdzWDc
— Chandana එක Ekanayake (@Ekanaut) December 11, 2021
It truly is wonderful in movement. https://t.co/1W45eFCBQc
— Chandana එක Ekanayake (@Ekanaut) December 11, 2021
In a separate tweet, Ekanayake and lots of of his followers famous that elements of the demo felt much like Enter the Matrix ranges. He additional revealed that Shiny Leisure’s PS2 character fashions had been constructed utilizing 3D scans of the actors with patch modeling strategies. Nonetheless, the variety of patches had been restricted attributable to {hardware} limitations on the time.
The Unreal Engine 5 demo options very reasonable digital replicas of Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne-Moss.
Did our readers play Enter the Matrix and discover any similarities within the demo?