Geoff Keighley officially announced The Matrix Awakens Monday, confirming earlier leaks of its existence.
Anyone that owns a PS5 or Xbox Series X|S can pre-load The Matrix Awakens now, though it won’t be available until Dec. 9 after its official reveal during The Game Awards. It’s still not confirmed if this is a video game or something else, with the Playstation Store description doing little to clarify.
“Get ready for a glimpse into the future of interactive storytelling and entertainment with [Unreal Engine 5] in this free, boundary-pushing cinematic and real-time tech demo.” reads the Playstation store page.
The description states that Lana Wachowski, director and writer of the upcoming Matrix Resurrections film, had a hand in creating The Matrix Awakens. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will be in this as well.
Epic Games also released a trailer for The Matrix Awakens, which you can check out below. That’s an in-engine render of Reeves, not the actor himself, by the way. The valley, it is so uncanny.
I've been waiting a long time for a moment like this.
Thursday, witness the future of interactive storytelling and entertainment. #TheMatrixAwakens world premieres at #TheGameAwards
Pre-download now on PS5 + Xbox Series X/S to be a part of a next-generation #ue5 experience. pic.twitter.com/rYxRulV17z
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 6, 2021
The KID A MNESIA Exhibition, the digital exhibit by Radiohead, was another of these interactive experiences that Epic Games have done recently. Calling them “games” might be a bit much, hence the peculiar wordplay in product descriptions.
Lawrence Fishburne sadly won’t be part of this project, perhaps because his character died in The Matrix Online.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
