The Matrix: Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Matrix: Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience

The Matrix: Awakens morphs from breathtakingly realistic cinematic to fast-paced third-person shooter experience, complete with action-packed car chase sequence, and also provides a rich, vastly detailed open…

6 December 2021

What The Matrix: Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is

The Matrix: Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is a shooter game developed by Epic Games and released in 2021. It is available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Matrix: Awakens morphs from breathtakingly realistic cinematic to fast-paced third-person shooter experience, complete with action-packed car chase sequence, and also provides a rich, vastly detailed open world to explore, set within the universe of 'The Matrix'.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Matrix series

The Matrix: Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience is the fourth of 5 entries we hold in the The Matrix series. It arrived 16 years after The Matrix: Path of Neo. The next entry was MultiVersus in 2024.

See all 5 The Matrix games in release order →

What it launched against

The Matrix: Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience launched on 6 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash and Battlefield 2042. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash, Battlefield 2042.

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