Sixteen kilometers square, photoreal, and quickly traversable, it’s populated with realistic inhabitants and traffic. The demo starts out with a cinematic that features exceptionally realistic digital humans, before morphing into a fast-paced interactive experience of car chases and third-person shooter action.Īll of this takes place in a huge, bustling, and explorable open-world city that-like the simulated world of The Matrix-is incredibly rich and complex. With Wachowski and many of the original crew onboard, the team set out to create something with Unreal Engine 5 that’s nothing short of spectacular: an experience that merges artforms in exciting new ways. Whatever the future of cinematic storytelling, Epic will play no small part in its evolution.” The Epic sandbox is pretty special because they love experimenting and dreaming big. 'Keanu, Carrie, and I had a blast making this demo. It’s mind-boggling how far games have come in twenty years.

“I imagine the first company to build an actual Matrix-a fully immersive, persistent world-will be a game company and Epic is certainly paving the way there.

“When I told them I was making another Matrix film, they suggested I come and play in the Epic sandbox,” says Wachowski. Wachowski, Libreri, and Gaeta have been friends since the days of the trilogy. The project reunited many of the crew that worked on the seminal The Matrix trilogy, including James McTeigue, Kym Barrett, John Gaeta, Kim Libreri, Jerome Platteaux, George Borshukov, and Michael F Gay, in collaboration with teams across both Epic Games and partners, such as SideFX, Evil Eye Pictures, The Coalition, WetaFX (formerly Weta Digital), and many others.

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