Before showing it, he explained that he was a bit worried about recreating the Neo/Multiple-Smith showdown from the second and third films. His team wanted to ensure that it would be both fun and fast without looking too limited or without having to sacrifice the visuals established elsewhere in the game. Originally the team's main goal was to put 50 animated Agent Smiths onscreen at the same time, but one of their star programmers seemed to think he could best that by leaps and bounds. Needless to say, for my demo Perry ended up showing off a parking lot filled with 750 animated Agent Smiths at once -- all of which were running at a smooth framerate and without any of the cool special effects taking a major hit to do so. What really put his demonstration over the top, though, was that he then added a second layer of Smith's to the existing 750 for 1500 total Smiths in all. The framerate still didn't take a hit, each and every one of them were animated, and all of it was running on a PS2 dev kit. I think it's safe to assume that people are going to get the epic Neo vs. Agent Smith battles that they've been waiting for.
