Splinter Cell: Double Agent next-gen comparison

I' m shocked by this. The game runs on the same engine as Chaos Theory [UE2.5] and yet the on PS3 it manages to look far worse than the 360 version?

I don' t get it.

IGN insider has a head-to-head comparison HERE

IGN explains that in some scenes there are items missing and fewer people onscreen in the Prison level and that the framerate is bad etc. If you' re an Insider it' s worth a look.

A couple of things to note about the comparison screens below:

Missing or severely reduced specular highlights

Flat lighting

Suffers from overbright

Desaturated colours

Lower texture resolution (see American flag on the guys arm in the second shot]

Weak bump mapping





Now this isn' t about one being " better" than the other, this is about the game being a lame fucking port.

There' s nothing in the 360 version that can not be done or excelled on PS3. Hell, both consoles are capable of far far more than what we saw in Double Agent on 360. The game uses an old [and well documented] engine, one that really came into it' s own running on Xbox' s GeForce 3. So why would the PS3 port suffer so drastically i don' t hear you ask...

The problem has arisen in the games code. We know for a fact that porting from 360/PC to PS3 is tricky, but we also know that with effort [Oblivion], not only can it be done but it can be done exceptionally well.

The 360 game looked great. Not amazing, but great nonetheless. The PS3 version falls graphically between the Xbox Chaos Theory and 360 Double Agent. There' s too much difference for it to be called " almost identical" , and i' d probably go as far as to say the PS3 version, because of the terrible framerate, is simply ugly.

But it' s not the hardware. It' s the fact that to get the game to look like the 360 version or better the team would have had to recode more than 60% of the games code. Mapping values would have to be re-dialled for every surface, lighting would have to be adjusted for every light source, texture maps would have to be re-done etc etc etc...

So what we have is a really sub-par port of a game that' s been available in a superior form for months, and they' re asking you to pay full price.

Like i said, it' s simply an awful port, but it makes me wonder how the graphically awesome [on 360] Rainbow Six: Vegas and GRAW2 will fare...

I don' t suppose anybody is picking, or has already picked this up on PS3 have they?

< Message edited by NITRO -- 7 Apr 07 2:41:27 >

I' m really dissapointed with the job that was done. I agree with everything you said, and I think they should be ashamed to sell this at full price and advertise it as a complete next gen title on the ps3.

I was considering picking it up back before I saw the review and screens of it, but when I looked at em a few days I was appalled. There is no way I will ever pick this game up.

We won' t stop seeing shit ports like this before the PS3 has a userbase worth the effort of re-coding games. I' m sure by late next year the PS3 will take off.

Like i said, it' s simply an awful port, but it makes me wonder how the graphically awesome [on 360] Rainbow Six: Vegas and GRAW2 will fare...

If they manage to screw up these two fantastic games I would be a very pissed off PS3 owner.

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Like i said, it' s simply an awful port, but it makes me wonder how the graphically awesome [on 360] Rainbow Six: Vegas and GRAW2 will fare...

If they manage to screw up these two fantastic games I would be a very pissed off PS3 owner.

Well for now they deserve the benefit of the doubt. 3 different teams and 3 different engines will result in 3 different levels of quality.

Vegas is being handled by Montreal and GRAW2 by Paris, and both teams are far better than Shanghai, Montreal especially.

There are highlight-able areas where the game could potentially fall down but they' re not worth going into until we' ve seen more of the games.

Sony got served.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Sony got served.

UbiSoft blew the big one.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

The game sucks ass, I played it for about 30 minutes on X360, worst waste of $60 ever.

The whole novelty of it wore off after 15 minutes, the game makes me yawn.

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Ports of 360 games are likely to be commonplace until the PS3 gets a decent installed userbase. This one does look exceptionally crap though.

The PS3 could do without shoddyness like this right now.

I played the 360 demo and couldn' t stand the vsync problems.

Vsync not enabled? This game doesn' t interest me enough to even download the demo but the whole vsync issue on 360 games is a joke - I' d hoped it would stop happening after the first gen games - total lack of quality control on Microsoft' s part IMO. Releasing games with vsync disabled should not be allowed to happen.

Its an Ubisoft game? pfft, Us Nintendo Wii owners are used to crappy (ps2) ports from Ubi. No big deal.