Thirteen years after the game’s original release, the question “But can it work?” Crysis “It continues to be a joke among gamers, referring to whether any new piece of hardware is powerful enough to run the graphically demanding Crytek game. Now, we have evidence that the Nintendo Portable Switch is capable of doing the job; Eurogamer‘s Digital Foundry, a medium known for its technical breakdowns, created a video that shows the differences between each version of Crysis released so far and how Nintendo Switch works.
I was a little surprised myself that Crytek managed to create a competent port of Crysis remastered on the switch. However, not everything is good. Here are some conclusions from Digital Foundryvideo of:
- It’s pretty crunchy for a Switch game! While the game can sometimes drop to an ugly resolution of 540p or lower, it manages to achieve the Switch’s native screen resolution of 720p on average
- Global lighting, something not found in the original PC version, adds a more dramatic atmosphere to the game, particularly in certain areas such as a building that has natural light coming through a window
- Details about materials and surfaces, such as nanosuit, roads, and other surfaces, have been re-marked to the point where they look extremely muddy and lack photorealism.
- You can still destroy buildings with grenades, shoot from a bridge, and knock down trees, but the game will momentarily fail.
- When diving underwater, there is hardly anything below the surface – most plants and rocks are gone on Switch
- The entire tenth mission of the game, “Ascension,” is still missing on Switch, likely due to the fact that even the fastest PC parts available in 2018 had trouble maintaining 30 fps.
In terms of switch ports, Crysis Remastered looks better than The outer worldsThe critically acclaimed Obsidian ARPG 2019 that is playable but has ugly blurry textures. But, compared to the ports of Doom 2016 and Wolfenstein II: the new colossus – two games that were “impossible” to transfer to Switch – Crysis remastered leaves some things to be desired. Leaving the slightly choppy images aside, both games managed to keep all the content from the original releases, while Crysis remastered That full level is still missing, something that to date can only be played on the original PC version.
Despite all its shortcomings, Digital Foundry says the Nintendo Switch version is “arguably the best console version of a Crysis game to date, “at least until the remastered versions of PS4 and Xbox One come out.
Crysis remastered will launch on Nintendo Switch first on July 23; The versions for PC, PS4 and Xbox One do not yet have a new release date. Go read Digital Foundryfull in-depth report to see why they think Crysis remastered For Nintendo Switch it is a port worth visiting.
