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Prototype on Xbox One is worse than Xbox 360

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Prototype 2

I was excited when I heard that Prototype and Prototype 2 were coming to the new consoles. I played both of them on PS3 originally and absolutely adored them. No, they weren’t deep and meaningful games, but geez it was fun to destroy everything in new and creative ways. I thought a new console HD remake would mean even prettier destruction, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Digital Foundry knows how to put games through their paces. The team has done the assessment of the Prototype HD Biohazard Bundle and it’s not pretty. When they initially did their comparison, the game ran better on PS3 than on Xbox 360. However, because the HD version released first on Xbox One, they haven’t yet given it a whirl on PS4. Still, the Xbox One version sounds abysmal.

At face value, sure, the game has been given an HD upgrade, pushing out a native 1080p. However, everything else from the game remains the same, including draw distance range, textures and shadow quality; it’s the frame rate that really causes issues, more so in the second game than the first.

According to Digital Foundry, the first Prototype remaster plays at 30fps, dropping to the mid-20s with tearing once explosives were triggered. They found it to be mostly solid and playable albeit under-ambitious. But it’s Prototype 2 where it really becomes impossible to call the game an HD remaster.

The real salt in the wound is how Xbox One’s delivery of Prototype 2 compares to last-gen versions. Neither PS3 or Xbox 360 exactly aced it on this front; the Microsoft release suffered from heavy tearing and worse frame-rates overall, leaving PS3 the victor in our original Face-Off. In direct comparison, Xbox One struggles to even match the 360 version at points, falling as low as 18fps during a fly-over of the city (during which last-gen consoles lock to 20fps via a double-buffer v-sync).

As for gameplay, Xbox One’s frame-rate is interchangeable with Microsoft’s older platform, and trails behind too often for comfort. In one scene, 360 leads by a margin of 4fps during a tank battle, while Xbox One is pinned to around 23fps by the end of the fight.

This sounds absolutely atrocious. I suppose this is why they didn’t do any PR around the HD remake of the game – they didn’t actually do anything other than upscale the resolution, resulting in dropping frame rates to the point where the optimal experience for the game could be found on the PS3. Come on guys, we expect better than this. I’m not sure why we expect more when they keep giving us tripe like this, but we do still have some standards, and this falls way short.

Last Updated: July 20, 2015

52 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    July 20, 2015 at 11:34

    Refund, or sell it second hand to a sucker? ;P

    Reply

    • Pariah

      July 20, 2015 at 11:39

      Option 1: buy the PS3/Xbox 360 games instead for much, MUCH cheaper.

      Reply

      • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

        July 20, 2015 at 11:40

        But then you’d have to still actually HAVE your console (provided you didn’t trade it in when you “upgraded” or throw it out when Witcher 3 dropped to 20 FPS).

        Reply

        • Pariah

          July 20, 2015 at 11:41

          LOL. I still have my 360, and I wouldn’t get rid of it if I had bought an Xbox One or PS4. I still have like 6 games that I could play on it if I wanted.

          If I wanted.

          Reply

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 20, 2015 at 11:42

            Yeah. But you’re pragmatic. Do you know how many people in this world who I know that are actually pragmatic? You. Are. The. Only. One.

            So just pretend I’m speaking to all the normal folks out there. 🙂

            *Edit: In other words… not you. 😉

          • Pariah

            July 20, 2015 at 11:44

            LOL. Fine. Speak to normal people then. What do I care. 😛

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 20, 2015 at 11:46

            Exactly! See how pragmatic you are? Why waste energy caring in the first place? Not like all those people hating on poor Congo the other day. They cared WAAAAY too much. If they were pragmatic, they’d have moved on with their lives. 🙂

          • Pariah

            July 20, 2015 at 11:48

            What happened in Congo?

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 20, 2015 at 11:49

            They beat a lot of drums?

          • Pariah

            July 20, 2015 at 11:50

            That’s cruelty towards percussion instruments. I demand that drums be gently petted, it’s unacceptable that they’ve been beaten all this time!

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 20, 2015 at 11:54

            But what about the emotional agony of string instruments? They are wound so tight they sometimes snap under all that pressure!

          • Pariah

            July 20, 2015 at 11:54

            Well, we all know stress is a killer. They should go see their GP’s about that.

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 20, 2015 at 11:53

            Just. Wow. Just… wowowowowowow. You use DRUMS in the rumba?

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 20, 2015 at 11:56

            I use drums made of the skin of my victims wherever I want to!

          • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

            July 20, 2015 at 11:56

            I think the only victims you have are the poor sods on Lazygamer who have to read this nonsense. 😛

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 20, 2015 at 11:57

            Yeah. Have to admit this article is quite lame…

          • Pariah

            July 20, 2015 at 11:56

            How many mice did you have to kill to stretch the skin over a drum?

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 20, 2015 at 11:58

            I have learned not to fuck with mice http://s6.postimg.org/8jnfzdpkh/Bad_Ass_Killer_Mouse.jpg
            Refresh

          • Pariah

            July 20, 2015 at 11:59

            That’s a hampster. You know that right?

          • Dutch Matrix

            July 20, 2015 at 12:00

            Mice… Hamsters, Rats… all terrifying to me…

          • Chuckster

            July 22, 2015 at 09:56

            Doos

          • RinceThis

            July 20, 2015 at 12:35

            lol

          • Admiral Chief in Skellige

            July 20, 2015 at 13:28

            *hamster

          • Pariah

            July 20, 2015 at 13:31

            SIGH. 🙁

            My point stands though. >_>

        • Gianmario

          July 21, 2015 at 22:04

          The Xbone is now retro compatible.

          Reply

      • Andrew McDougall

        July 21, 2015 at 18:21

        Option 2: just sell all and build a PC, Even cheaper and 60fps native 1080p!

        Reply

    • Dutch Matrix

      July 20, 2015 at 11:49

      Bright idea: Just don’t buy it!

      Reply

      • Chuckster

        July 22, 2015 at 09:57

        Bright idea: you’re an idiot

        Reply

    • RinceThis

      July 20, 2015 at 12:08

      Second hand!

      Reply

  2. SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

    July 20, 2015 at 11:39

    “No, they weren’t deep and meaningful games, but geez it was fun to destroy everything in new and creative ways.”

    I came here only to say something like this. But Zoe has beaten me to it! 😛

    Reply

    • Dutch Matrix

      July 20, 2015 at 11:48

      Zoe always beats up on guys!

      Reply

      • SargonTheBatpandaOfTI5

        July 20, 2015 at 11:54

        I think this is only true if they’re chauvinistic capitalist pigs! Hence the love for indies. It’s a political statement.

        Reply

      • Chuckster

        July 22, 2015 at 09:57

        Only queer ones like you

        Reply

  3. Hammersteyn

    July 20, 2015 at 11:40

    • RinceThis

      July 20, 2015 at 12:35

      hahaha

      Reply

    • brusselsproty

      July 20, 2015 at 13:41

      It’s also meant to be just as bad on the PS4 but very oddly Digital Foundry decided not to test it at the same time !, strange isn’t it ?.

      Reply

      • Hammersteyn

        July 20, 2015 at 13:49

        It’s not out on PS4 yet. I’m not even sure the PS4 will get this.

        Reply

      • Jonah Cash

        July 20, 2015 at 13:55

        Uhmmmm actually it hasn’t been released on the PS4….
        PS Facts then attacks, never the other way around.

        Reply

  4. Guild

    July 20, 2015 at 12:04

    I hope they don’t do something stupid like this with the Uncharted Collection

    Reply

    • konfab

      July 20, 2015 at 12:06

      The Last of Us remaster didn’t have any issues. So I don’t think it will be a problem.

      Reply

      • Matthew Holliday

        July 20, 2015 at 12:30

        yeah but the last of us probably wasnt a remaster.
        the ps3 version was probably a downgrade and they were just waiting to cash in on the ps4.
        even if it was a proper remaster though, the generation gap wasnt that big, the uncharted games are like, a thousand years old, remastering that will be more work.

        Reply

  5. WitWolfy

    July 20, 2015 at 12:51

  6. BurninZ

    July 20, 2015 at 13:11

    WOW that’s crazy! Gees these remasters, some are amazing (TLOU FTW) and some are not worth the time and effort needed to do the “Re-master”. I think that is the problem, some companies do Re-masters and truly put time and effort in to make the game better, and others just see a cheap quick cash in. In this case its quick, but I don’t think its gonna work out that cheap overall….

    Reply

  7. Nikola

    July 20, 2015 at 13:11

    wow what a mess….I guess the trend still continue with broken games sad thought the industry will start learning from other people’s mistakes.

    Reply

  8. Guest

    July 20, 2015 at 16:54

    Just wait for it to come on BC for X1 and if it doesn’t, then oh well…not buying a half-assed “remaster”

    Reply

  9. MakeItLegal

    July 20, 2015 at 19:35

    jesus , this is published by activsion no , the same dlc scum bags that publish fucking call of duty , and your surprised , cash cow mooooooooooooooooooooving on

    Reply

  10. orosoy

    July 20, 2015 at 19:48

    Were you expecting something different from a 720p console.

    Reply

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