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> The demo has two parts. The first is a narrative sequence that doesn't respond to button taps, and it opens with a digital facsimile of actor Keanu Reeves—not
by pacifika 5y ago
> The demo has two parts. The first is a narrative sequence that doesn't respond to button taps, and it opens with a digital facsimile of actor Keanu Reeves—not playing a character, just Keanu being Keanu—remarking on The Matrix. He strolls through moments from the first film while pondering the original trilogy's questions about what is and isn't real. (Every time he passes a mirror, the bearded, long-haired Reeves who appears in it is video footage; otherwise, he's all digital. This article doesn't include any real-life Keanu.) Soon after, a digital facsimile of his Matrix co-star Carrie-Anne Moss appears—she only appears as a digital avatar, never as filmed footage—and their conversation eventually warps into a car chase.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/the-matrix-awakens-is-2021s-must-play-flex-of-current-gen-console-power/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/the-matrix-awakens-is...
- byproxy 5y agoThis seems to bolster the theory that The Matrix: Resurrections will be pretty meta and about Keanu Reeves “being in” (i.e. acting in) The Matrix.
- ghusbands 5y agoI'm fairly sure that quote is not factual. Many early appearances of Keanu are clearly a form of video footage; look at the later gameplay scenes to see the actual digital rendering of Keanu, with skin rendering not even matching ten year old games like LA Noire. Even when one Keanu is walking past another in the Morpheus scene, you can see that one is computer generated, with slightly better skin rendering than later, and one is video. Same goes for when Keanu walks through the bullet-time visual effects - the characters involved in the effects are clearly much lower fidelity than the filmed Keanu.