Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5 for next-generation games
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After years of work, Epic Games is formally releasing Unreal Engine 5 so developers can build next-generation games, digital films, and the initial outposts of the metaverse. If all of that sounds ambitious, it is. I remember the Elemental demo that Epic used to unveil Unreal Engine 4 in 2012. And 10 years later, after many tweaks to the game engine, Epic Games now has something worthy of moving on to a new number in the series.
The game engine is the tool that developers use to create their games and run them in real time as gamers play the titles on the PC, mobile devices, or consoles. It enables developers to write their game software once and then runs it across those different platforms. Normally, Epic Games might have revealed this at the recent Game Developers Conference. But Epic wasn’t sure whether COVID would prevent that from happening at the time it had to decide.
Back in December, Epic Games used Unreal Engine 5 to release The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience demo. That demo created by Epic’s own teams over the course of a year showed what was possible. It depicted lifelike digital characters based on Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss from The Matrix films. And it showed them racing cars and escaping from the cops in a chase that went through an entire digital city.
The cinematic scenes of the demo were actually filmed inside the simulated world of The Matrix city.
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