Game news Matrix Resurrections: 2 Great Theories About The Matrix Awakens Experience
About ten days before The Matrix Resurrections hit theaters, Warner Bros. Games gave impatient fans an interactive experience in the equally famous Matrix. The Wachowski Sisters saga has had strong connections with video games since its inception, and The Matrix Awakens is further edifying evidence of this. What’s the connection between this fun project and Matrix 4?
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- L’expérience The Matrix Awakens
- A modal of the matrix
- An intradiegetic project
L’expérience The Matrix Awakens
The Matrix Awakens is not strictly a video game, but an interactive experience. This project is primarily a technical demo created by Epic Games (Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, Fortnite) in collaboration with The Coalition (Gears 5, Gears Tactics). The latter is intended to highlight the technical capabilities of Unreal Engine 5, the engine developed by the same Epic Games.
This dive into the Matrix is an opportunity to rediscover in real time the iconic characters of the Matrix saga in a virtual version that surfs dangerously with photorealism. The new edition of Neo and Trinity, played by Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Mosse, respectively, is full of truth. It even becomes difficult to distinguish what is real and what is not.
After a 100 percent action sequence that reflects the legendary Matrix Reloaded motorway chase, a new guard walks through the streets and alleys of this simulation. Driving and exploring the city is only a small part of the possibilities that are offered to gamers by programmers. Like the chosen ones, the awakened can react at will to various parameters, starting with the green filter inherent in the matrix and the day / night cycle, but also visualizing the other side of the scene.
A modal of the matrix
It is no longer a secret. Morpheus is back in surprising shape to say the least. The prophet of the first Matrix trilogy, played by Laurence Fishburne, gives way to a “digital” version, the role of which is played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. In fact, the Morpheus fans know is just a distant memory. He was the Grand Master of Zion for the last few years of his life, the last human bastion before he died his beautiful death.
Matrix Resurrections begins decades after the events of Matrix Revolutions. The Morpheus of this new episode cannot be the real Morpheus. It is actually an artificial consciousness that is locked into a modal, more precisely Modal-101. Developed by Thomas Anderson aka Neo, this simulator programmer is a simulation within simulation that is matrix.
Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and their digital doppelgangers warn the audience of the dangers of these man-made universes in which only an “immortal” consciousness remains … at least in theory. Who is the real neo? That from Matrix (1999)? The one from Matrix Resurrections? or the Canadian actor himself? Ditto for Trinity! The real and the virtual become one in the age of social networks, a networked world and metavers that are supposed to make us digital beings.
An intradiegetic project
During the feature film directed by Lana Wachowski, Thomas Anderson is called by the head of Deus Machina studios to develop a sequel to the Matrix video game trilogy. In 1999, in the diegesis of Matrix Resurrections and thus the Matrix presented by the analyst, Neo is the designer of a series of video games that forever changed the face of the virtual world in which he “lives”. Matrix, the cinematographic saga, becomes Matrix, the video game saga in the world of film.
Warner Bros. A few years later, Deus Machina Studios is pushing for a sequel to the famous trilogy. This sequel mirrors the sequel planned for late December 2021 in the dark rooms of our own reality. Matrix 4 therefore exists in several forms, depending on the standard. The situation becomes more complex as The Matrix Awakens clouds the water and bridges reality and simulation. The interactive experience that emerged from the collaboration between Epic Games and The Coalition could be the tech demo requested by Warner Bros. or even the video game. The Matrix Awakens would be Matrix 4 … or at least some version of Matrix 4.
The film Matrix Resurrections is a meta-work that points to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia and thus the legends of the past. The Matrix Awakens would be the result of the union between a short-term vision of entertainment and the transmedia themes that run through this cyberpunk universe. In fact, Neo and Trinity’s preventive discourse is swept away by a series of “sexy” actions, and this famous bullet time is meant to sum up the work of the Wachowski on its own. The resurrection and awakening experiences ring the alarm bells just by their very existence.
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