Hey guys, how's it going? My name is Neil and welcome to something a little bit different. So a couple years ago, I uploaded a video about a little tech demo by the name of Matrix Awakening and how it had some pretty unique physics stuff going on particularly uh the crash physics oh god holy crap this is in game yes sir okay shoot the tires oh my god this looks insane i'm kind of at a loss for words right now this looks absolutely amazing for no reason whatsoever it went absolutely insanely hard uh with the crash physics now a couple years later um I didn't know it at the time, but there was a PC port for that demo.
So that's what we're running now. Hopefully we can get 60-ish frames per second this time, because back when I was playing it on the PS5, it did not run that great. But it was still really awesome.
Now, unfortunately, this version of the game does not have the really sick kind of action sequence from the beginning of the console version of the tech demo. But I'll have a link. to that down below it's pretty awesome yeah this one drops us straight into the open world here and if you haven't seen this before it's still even a couple years later is Pretty darn impressive.
This Unreal Engine 5, absolutely insane. You can even change the time of day, I believe. Yeah, there we go.
Right there, it looks pretty darn awesome. But if you know me, you know why I am super interested in this is because again, the crash physics are kind of ridiculous in this. And if you haven't seen it, I wanna show it off for you today. It's a better hardware than we were dealing with last time. So yeah.
this is pretty much the fastest car in the game uh the kind of porsche thing i don't know if you guys can hear it but the set this game is very unstable on the pc that my sound keeps cutting out hopefully it doesn't cut out for you guys i can still see uh the meter moving on obs so hopefully you can still hear the sound uh but anyway let's get into a little bit of an accident here there we go and maybe you can start to see why i still come back to this tech demo that is a couple years old at this point i don't know what it is but the car crashes are just so good in this look at this still to this day it looks so good let's get some real speed here i'm gonna absolutely die oh my god how fast does this thing go luckily we have a ginormous speedometer right on screen for us can we hit 100 miles an hour in this thing it's gonna be close oh my goodness 106 miles an hour my My God. We absolutely obliterated him so hard he turns into pixels. That's kind of just what happens.
I can't believe this car still works. Oh, my goodness. Let's drive to the end of the street here. So there's actually on this version of the game, there's two versions of the city, a big version and a small version.
We're on the small version, you know, hopefully to help us with some FPS. And oh, there. There we go. Now, I remember in the console version, if you were to run into a person, they kind of just disappear.
Because, again, we are in the Matrix, not real life. Again, how is my car holding up? I have no idea. Let's give it one more wreck here before we switch cars.
Okay, that one looked a little strange. Let's get out of the car here and see what else we could drive here. There's another Porsche right there.
How about you give me your car? give me your car give me your car now will they not give me really can i only get parked cars that you know that actually might be okay let's just go for this this mom car over here so i remember i was never really able to figure it out because it kind of feels like soft body physics but at the same whoa oh What just happened there? I'm not going to ask questions.
Yeah, the PC version, very unstable. At least the version I have. Maybe somebody can enlighten me in the comments if there's a better version of this.
But anyway, I was never really able to figure out what kind of crash model this game is using because it kind of feels like soft body. Because if you hit like a pole, the car will kind of wrap around it as you would expect, not like it's a prefabricated. Kind of thing.
Let's see if I can find a pole here There you go Yes, yeah, it doesn't really feel looks to see the where we hit the pole it kind of molds around where we hit it so it doesn't feel like it's kind of like a prefabbed thing it kind of feels kind of like the way wreck fest does their crash well i don't know what happened to the rest of our car there's some weird jaggedy little bits that's for sure there we go go we're just gonna push our way through this is not a very fast vehicle uh unfortunately but you know it is kind of a bulldozer let's see we can bulldoze the fedex trucks no we cannot decidedly so we could not oh my goodness excuse me We can't even go through the are you kidding me can't even go through the uh, the stop sign apparently Oh, yeah, our cars is falling apart man. It makes me want another porsche. Do we have any around here?
I don't see any actually the next one I see I'm gonna pick up. What is that ugly atrocity right there? Hold up That's like a throwback They go.
What do they call those those 90s bands that look like this? Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue What are those things called? Anyway, let's see how fast this one is This egg-shaped van. Let's see what we got here. Oh, that's a tree.
Whoops. Yeah, those jaggedy bits are very strange. Almost BeamNG-esque, if you will. I can't complain too much, though.
This is the longest I've gone playing this without it crashing. So I'm really hoping for the best here. Whoa, buddy! Now I'm looking for something that was in the PS5 version, which was there would be ramp trucks sitting about. So I'm looking for one of those.
I haven't seen one yet, though. I don't know if they're actually in this. Hopefully so. Oh, oh god.
We're dead No, we're not we're a-okay we're floating we are truly in the matrix I get back We're stuck actually, you know what I can literally fly hold on Take your time get out of the car. There we go. Yeah, I don't know It's just something about the damage in this game. I just keep coming back to even if it is a little bit jank It's still pretty darn cool. Let's go though.
I'll see how big of a map this again. This is quote-unquote the small map So yeah, it's still pretty big Still very big In fact, my goodness. All right, let's find out.
What is this another Porsche right here? Yeah, I want the fast car Yeah, this game looks so good. Oh My goodness. Yeah, the the the console version like barely ran at 30 frames per second So this is a nice change of pace to actually have a usable frame rates But let's find a big stretch of road here. Oh my god.
You've got to be kidding me. I Bet to do that totally anyway, let's get this thing up to full speed and just run it straight into traffic because why not let's play a little bit of burnout here for a second weave through cut it up cut it up there we go oh get a little squirrely 80 miles an hour oh my god and here we go oh Oh, yeah, we just hit him. Okay. Yeah, if you hit them hard enough, they literally do just just explode. Unfortunately, they just explode into a shower of pixels and Gosh, darn it.
It's awesome. There we go go oh my it's like i'm a shovel i'm a ram plow in a car for why does my sound keep cutting out i'm again hopefully you guys can still hear but i can just keeps cutting out for no reason oh god you know i kind of want to try it at night there we go look at this now we're talking we got the vibes going now how long can i drive this until it breaks on us oh god Yeah, I still haven't seen one of those, uh, those ramp trucks. That was like one of my favorite parts about the, uh, the demo from a couple years ago. But yeah, I'm not seeing, maybe there is a few changes between console and the PC port. but still kind of a bummer oh my goodness gracious conveniently there's another Porsche right here so let's take this bad boy for a spin and a nice little drive around the city do the do my headlights not work I guess not I don't see any other headlights though oh yeah there's a few look at that moon as well and again this is just a tech demo it was a Really just to be a tech double to be like hey look how much people and AIs and how much city we can render But why do they need to go so hard?
On the car damage. I still do not understand there you go out through them beautiful that's how you do it the car still lives not in great shape but she still lives oh no poor taxi oh it's So satisfying just sitting these things flying. I wish I could. Can I drive one of the big trucks?
Are there any of those just sitting around? I don't see any. Oh, sorry, buddy.
You know, strangely enough, the more I play this, the more the PC version kind of feels a little bit limited, actually, compared to the PS5 version. I mean, obviously not in the sense of graphics. I mean, you're never going to beat PC when it comes to just pure raw horsepower.
tower but uh it feels like this one is notably missing a couple things it seems like the pc version is a notably a little bit more unstable you know especially with the uh kind of weird graphical glitches with the car but you know it's still it's still you know pretty much uh the same thing let's take this like ultima what is this like an old d side let's see how fast this one is decidedly not very fast yeah and i also am missing that the little action sequence at the beginning that was so cool it looked so unbelievably real at the time yeah i wish i could play that in here maybe i can i'm missing it but i didn't see it anywhere on the main menu so i'm just assuming it's just the open world bit and not the the kind of scripted sequence and again i don't it's not a huge deal i just cared about driving around a big city and crashing into things that's literally all this is is um but i don't know it would have been cool if you want to you know let out some oh my car broke why is the porsche like unkillable but i get in one accident and this thing and we're done so yeah as i was saying if you just want a good old stress reliever this is still uh a pretty darn good way to go and again look at the freaking graphics man absolutely b-e-a-u-tiful let's get it truck you really plow through oops wrong button can i really not get in this thing it's just parked here fine i'll go find one on my own there's got to be a truck parked somewhere around here right there we go hey we got two of oh what I just get hit by the car. I guess I did. Anyway, we got the truck now. Let's get a move on. Excuse me.
We should easily be able to plow through some traffic or maybe even some police cars. How about that? Excuse me.
Get out of the way. Easily plows through them. What about a taxi? T-bone.
Oh. I don't know what happened there. The weird stuff and the truck's dead.
It getting twisted. Oh God, I think that's a glitch right there, but still kind of looks cool, you know? Anyway, guys, if you want to try this for yourself, just be warned, it is very taxing on your PC. My PC is fans of full blast right now, but still pretty darn cool, although I will say I do think the best way to play it is on a console.
You get the full experience with that and the matrix tying. in kind of thing because i think it came out uh right around the same time as the last matrix movie but uh yeah this is still a pretty good way to play if you just want to drive around and crash into people on a big beautiful city uh for tech demo you can't get much better than this man yeah i hope you guys enjoyed if you did make sure that like button down below and before we go since there's a blue porsche right here let's just do one more high speed accident and you know the biggest strip of road i could find because you know why not Why not? Here we go.
Full speed ahead. Actually, no, I'm gonna turn around. There you go. Full speed ahead.
Try to get up to 100 miles an hour. And here we go! Yes!
Hold on, let me get a look here. Before they disintegrate. No! I wanted to see the carnage.
Well, here's the parked car that kind of got caught by it. Anyway, guys, I'll see you in the next one. Bye-bye.