SOULCALIBUR IV XBOX 720P
SOULCALIBUR IV XBOX PS3

SOULCALIBUR IV XBOX PS3

Performance online is also like-for-like, so no worries there.įor its part, the PS3 game offers an optional installation to hard disk - weighing in at 2.6GB and taking a not-inconsiderable 14 minutes to complete. Gamers need have nothing to fear in terms of gameplay - SoulCalibur IV is indeed identical on both platforms. On the plus side, we do effectively have 'platform parity' on what is a very decent beat-'em-up. Instead, all that effort seems to have been pretty much wasted.

SOULCALIBUR IV XBOX 720P

It strikes me as a real shame that the 720p downscale has been included at all in the 360 code, when that extra resolution could have been used for all manner of better things - for example, an improved image at 1080p, better picture quality on 1360x768 LCDs and plasmas or a cracking picture on the forthcoming 1440x900 mode coming to the next dash update. In theory, this should produce a smoother-looking game for Xbox 360 owners - but as you can see from the video, you have to wonder if the effort was really worth it. Right after rendering Xbox's higher resolution image, Namco's coders then scale it back down again to 720p! Neither version has any anti-aliasing effects but the idea in using the Xbox 360's higher resolution is to downscale the larger image in order to smooth off edges and reduce 'jagginess'. Well, it's not as superior as it could've been, that's for sure. So the Xbox 360 version is tangibly superior, right? Wrong. They only manifest in the form of a touch of bloom and a good old-fashioned lens flare mostly apparent on the pre-fight animations. The Xbox 360 version also has an extra layer of lighting effects completely absent on the PS3 game - though the effect is rather subtle. For one thing, the game is running internally with a whopping great 40 per cent resolution increase on the Microsoft console, with a native framebuffer of 1365x960 versus the standard 1280x720 on the PlayStation 3. Soul Calibur IV is stressing Xbox 360 in ways Namco-Bandai has been unable or unwilling to match on the equivalent PlayStation 3 code. I might as well get this out in the open from the start.

Soulcalibur iv xbox