If you thought the days of sub-par PS3 ports of multi-platform games were over, bad news Sony fans, Mafia II on the Xbox 360 whacks its inferior PS3 cousin. At least when it comes to large pools of blood and grass, it seems.
This is according to Elizabeth Tobey, 2K’s Senior Manager of Interactive Marketing, who has confirmed on the company’s forum that, in the graphics department at least, the PS3 version does not perform as well as other editions of the game. She says:
“When designing Mafia II, we optimized for each of the three different systems the game would run on to make sure the core experience was the best it could be. Because of this, there are some differences from one platform to the next. In terms of the PS3 version, I wanted to clarify a couple points you have been asking about: There will not be highly detailed grass or large pools of blood, the cloth movement is less noticeable than, for example, the PC version, and the visual fidelity in the demo is generally representative of what you’ll see in the full game.
Our aim is to make a cohesive and immersive experience and optimize the game for each platform so that it could run its best. And while there are some differences between each version, I’m sure you’ll find that the core gameplay and the heart of Mafia II remains no matter whether you play on PS3, 360, or PC.”
Some people have expressed concerns about the recent PS3 demo, noting issues with frame-rate and other graphical aberrations compared to its 360 counterpart. From the above statement it would appear what’s presented in the demo is what we’ll be seeing in the final product, suggesting the 360 has the edge.
PS3 users will be getting the exclusive Betrayal of Jimmy DLC, of course, but will this be enough to assuage what is yet another sign that, even at this stage in this generation’s life-cycle, third-party developers are still struggling to get the most out of Sony’s black behemoth?
Who knows? Maybe a post-launch patch akin to what the publisher provided for BioShock is a possibility.
Source: GamesRadar
Danza Di Fuoco
Pray’s TSA’s review is near release….
That won’t bother me hopefully all I need to know is that if Mafia 2 is worth buying.
BIGAL-1992
It got 7/10 in OPM-UK. I reckon it’ll be around that mark.
solidsteven
EDIT this is a reply to andy don’t know why it’s here
solidsteven
i think the site is not working properly comments wise
jamess109
…and thats why I download games on PC! PS3 games are CRAP for graphics except for the rare few that’s is most likely exclusives.
Played this (1/2) way thru on the demo and I thought i was playing it on a Wii. Went to the PC and the gfx n framerate was lush!
Awayze
Stfu fanboy, there are a lot of games that are on par now with the 360 and PS3 exclusives will obviously look better but majority of the mainstream games are on par now, it’s just a few games that aren’t as good but you can’t tell difference anyway.
OneShotWook
As with the first one,bottom line is it’s a P.c game,360 is bottom line a mid to low end P.c.Look to devs with some vision about wanting tech to move forwards away from the x86 architecture and you’ll see the likes of I.D softwares Rage and i’m hoping RockStars Agent.
It’s only when we step away from the 20 plus years of x86 architecture dominance that games won’t start to look better on P.c(discounting hundreds of sloppy console to P.c releases).
Clearly companies such as Intel,Nvidia,Microsoft et al are heavily invested in prolonging the dominance of x86 but i have to admire Sony for producing a better technical platform even if they may’ve been a little too early.
*Edit* for some reason this got posted in the wrong place so i’m gonna stick it at the end(hopefully),sorry guys:).
paxpacis
Funny that nobody mentioned Ghostbusters as the rights for that are with Sony and the game still was better looking on the xbox.
Less blood? Well I heard in Germany there is no blood in games allowed so they can leave that out and show more grass ;)
Dirkpitt39
Who are the cretins that write this crap? How did they translate those words into that headline?
Jesus fuckin christ some people are stupid.
Quinlank
Less detailed grass = NO SALE!
Awayze
By making it hard to code for the PS3, it keeps out all the crappy games and ports away from the PS3 and on the 360 :) Mafia II wasn’t that good anyway, not enough anti aliasing as the devs are lazy and just make a crappy version to make money.
There’s a reason why Apple’s App Store is mostly full of crap because it’s easy to develop for iOS.
Hullian_Hero_95
the game on a whole is just inferior…