It isn’t the worst thing in the world, but a lot could be done to improve this.The PlayStation 3 is considered one of the most emblematic platforms in the history of video games. Controls begin to feel unresponsive and trying to survive becomes a crapshoot.

I don’t have exact measurements, but I’ve seen what can sometimes be a slideshow when multiple explosions are going off and cramming the screen with different effects. It is fine that everything starts off kind of slow and the framerate is pretty good, but the later missions get so bombastic that the game just doesn’t hold up. I’d be more enthusiastic about this port if the campaign ran better. Even if this version can’t stick to higher framerates, multiplayer comes off better since it is a lot more stable. When selecting the performance option, you can sometimes even get 60 FPS playback, though that is a rarity. Since the maps are cut down in multiplayer, the game typically performs much better than it does in the campaign. There’s the full multiplayer suite - complete with a local, multi-Switch option –, the “Wrecking Crew” bonus mode, and even the DLC campaign. In terms of content, everything from the other ports is here. Quality doesn’t completely solve that (it still likes to slow down a bit), but the differential is smaller and it makes everything feel better. When you then select the performance option, the framerate fluctuates more regularly and getting something approaching 50 FPS then dropping to 30 feels awful. While having a slightly higher framerate sounds like it would be a better deal, the fact that the resolution is cut down to 720p or lower means the game is already performing better anyway. In portable mode, I feel like quality is the better choice.

This doesn’t feature any of the texture or geometry improvements that last years remaster on PS4, Xbox One, and PC exhibit, though it does have changes to the lighting model. The visual make-up of the game is decidedly last generation, so even sticking with quality you’re getting an image that could pass as a PS3 title. I can’t tell if there is a dynamic resolution scaler going on or if the game is even pushing out a full HD image, but the performance loss is really not worth it.

In fact, I think when playing docked that you should stick to performance since the quality option will try its best to render out at 1080p.

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