While we were all gushing over The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience, one veteran game developer was reminiscing about the time he developed the 2003 video game Enter the Matrix at Shiny Entertainment.
Chandana Ekanayake, now co-founder and creative director of Outerloop Games, tweeted that he’s having “fun” looking at the stunning Unreal Engine 5 demo on the PlayStation 5 and comparing it to his time developing Enter the Matrix for PlayStation 2 (it also released on GameCube, Xbox, and PC).
The new Matrix Experience in UE5 on PS5 is fun to look at and compare to my time working on Enter the Matrix on PS2. It’s come a long way 🙂 pic.twitter.com/nsVJEdzWDc
— Chandana එක Ekanayake (@Ekanaut) December 11, 2021
It really is amazing in motion. https://t.co/1W45eFCBQc
— Chandana එක Ekanayake (@Ekanaut) December 11, 2021
In a separate tweet, Ekanayake and many of his followers noted that parts of the demo felt similar to Enter the Matrix levels. He further revealed that Shiny Entertainment’s PS2 character models were built using 3D scans of the actors with patch modeling techniques. However, the number of patches were restricted due to hardware limitations at the time.
The Unreal Engine 5 demo features very realistic digital replicas of Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne-Moss.
Did our readers play Enter the Matrix and find any similarities in the demo?
