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Hi iv just bought Quantum of solace and iv noticed the picture is rubbish i have a sony 40W5500 tv and the ps3s set on 1080p 1080i & 720p but on Quantum of solace it looks like the games in SD. I had this game on xbox360 last year and the picture and graphics where good. Bad port?
It looked fine to me with some levels being noticeably better than others, especially later in the game. Whilst it isn't as pin sharp as some PS3 games it's certainly no disgrace and I enjoyed the gameplay too.
Despite the fact the refresh rate of the underlying technology has already been substantially pared back at its stock speeds, both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game manage to drop frames, too. Perhaps predictably, it happens much more often on the Sony platform, to the point where Treyarch has turned off the v-lock to keep the action smooth(er), introducing screen-tear into a game where this is none on Xbox 360.
As you'll see in the opening moments of the video, environments have also been cut back on PS3. The first clip of the game is one of the most blatant moments, with trees in both the foreground and background mysteriously vanishing in the PS3 video. It's not massively noticeable further into the game, but a factor nonetheless. Some textures appear to be of a lower resolution too, and lighting schemes can be very different. Depth-of-field effects also appear to be an Xbox 360 exclusive.
A few months back, Microsoft added the SSAO effect into the Xbox 360 development library. I won't bore you with the details on this (Wikipedia can fill you in on ambient occlusion and this interpretation of it), but suffice to say, it was first used in Crysis, so we can assume it's A Good Thing. It's used extensively in the 360 version of Quantum of Solace, and once again, it's absent on PS3, and in places the difference is rather striking.
You really do have to wonder what's going on at Treyarch. You look at sub-standard PS3 conversion work like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and you wonder why this company is being given high-profile franchise games to work on. But then you check out Call of Duty: World at War and the difference is eye-opening to say the least; these guys are capable of producing quality games. Quantum of Solace on the other hand brings us back down to Earth - a genuinely disappointing game with a quantifiably poor PlayStation 3 conversion.
Single player is ok Multiplayer is a bit erm basic after playing MW2.
Tell me about it Got the plat on this game last year, which required spending a fair few hours on mp. Soon got sick of the phrases "Target Down!" and "I'm empty!" when you hear them every 3 seconds!
15-11-2009, 8:34 PM
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