Mortal Kombat X is out, and if you listened, you’ve done your best to avoid the game on PC, where a bit of a dodgy port means that the PC version isn’t the best one available. So which is?
Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry has counted the pixels, checked the graphics and measured the frame rates to tell you which platform is best. Mortal Kombat X is a pretty game – as far as fighting games go, of course – and runs at the gold standard of 1080p and 60fps. Only there are more caveats here than you can shake a stick at a dismembered Tartakan warrior’s corpse at.
For starters, on all three platforms, not everything is always 60fps. Pre-rendered cut-scenes are always 30fps, and look significantly worse than the actual game. Beyond that, on PC and PS4, it’s a rock-solid 60fps for gameplay.
As far as image quality goes, the PC does win it – but there’s apparently a gamma issue that means that all cut-scenes have depressingly crushed blacks. The PC version also has an all-or-nothing approach to anti-aliasing.
Worst of the three is the Xbox one, which not only occasionally drops frames, but runs at a significantly lower resolution, leading to a muddier image.
“In this case, pixel counting strongly indicates a drop in horizontal resolution, which hovers in the region of 1360×1080 to 1344×1080 instead of the more common 900p setup used on the platform,” says Digital Foundry.
They conclude that if you can, you should probably get the game on PlayStation 4. Unless you plan on playing against friends in other regions, that is.
“Usually, the PC version of a game manages to brute force its way to the top spot with higher graphics presets, resolutions, and frame-rates compared to consoles,” they say. “However, this isn’t quite the case with Mortal Kombat X.
The mild boost in texture decal resolution adds an extra layer of refinement to its visuals, but the game is partially let down by the 30fps performance cap during X-rays and fatalities, which serves little purpose on a constantly evolving platform. Combined with the horrible black crush that effectively ruins the cut-scenes central to enjoying the single-player story mode, this leaves us with the impression we’re not getting the best experience.
Hopefully High Voltage Software – the studio behind the PC release – can address these issues in a future update, but right now the PS4 game is the best way to take the fight to Shinnok in this new Mortal Kombat.“
Have you been playing? which platform did you get it on?
Last Updated: April 20, 2015
Hammersteyn
April 20, 2015 at 17:13
The WIIU plays it the worst. The game wont even start. I think they must have been too busy planning the DLC or coding the MT into the game to polish the cut scenes which looks shite on any platform. MK could always tell a captivating story but it seems like they are shifting towards MP which could spell the end of that and that would be a dark day.
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April 20, 2015 at 17:15
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Hammersteyn
April 21, 2015 at 07:24
I’m farther gone than him, the industry has turned into a cynical old man. Ten years ago,after seeing the Battlefront trailer, I would have been so excited . But now I can only think of how they’re gonna chop it up into DLC pieces.
Greylingad
April 21, 2015 at 08:30
It’s a shame really, but then again, what did we expect? It’s what EA does best, tease us with a potentially awesome game, hype it enough so that everyone would buy it and then BANG! Slap a price tag to it and shrug off concerned gamers… Morons, the lot of them…
RinceThis
April 20, 2015 at 17:39
lol
Greylingad
April 20, 2015 at 17:20
My one friend bought the game as a retail copy… Only to find it installing about 400 or so MB of data… And then it downloaded the rest, needless to say, 40 GB on a wireless Internet bundle is hella expensive, ended up paying just over 2gs for the game…
Edit: PC version…
Aries
April 20, 2015 at 17:21
Thats sad
Greylingad
April 20, 2015 at 17:23
Yep, top it off, he literally finished the download, played about 10 minutes… Loadshedding baby!
Trebzz
April 20, 2015 at 17:23
PCI master race my ass 😛
RinceThis
April 20, 2015 at 17:39
Well, that’s to be expected…
Ming, Ruler of the Universe
April 22, 2015 at 07:20
Pixelcounting bunch of complainers is what gamers have become. A shame really.