Assassin's Creed Mirage - DF Tech Review - PS5 & Xbox Series X/S Tested at 30FPS/60FPS

Ubisoft delivers a more tightly focused Assassin's Creed title with Mirage - and while technological innovation this time around is somewhat limited, we're looking at a polished release that looks and runs well on all current-gen consoles. Tom Morgan has the full lowdown on the three machines, plus analysis on each of their performance and quality modes. Is 60fps the best way to play? Spoilers: yes.
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[@mateus1513]

AC Unity was the pinnacle of Ubisoft graphics for me. I mean, in these years AC had some highs and lows, but the cutscenes of Unity still hold on my mind, beautifully animated. Developers got to understand that big map sizes, doesn't mean "better game". As a side note, the chromatic aberration of Mirage does more harm than good and you can't disable it...

[@m0rianne]

10000 dollars says you have no idea what it does but your just one of these "motion blur and CA are bad wahhhhhh" people.

[@alumlovescake]

@@m0rianne Its not rocket science 99% of people know what CA is and 99% of people hate it

[@urmomma2688]

​@@m0rianneCA is so good our eyes evolved to correct it

[@mandrews6282]

Still want to see the first ‘next gen’ AC title as Mirage remains cross gen. And it kind of shows visually. It is also a B team spinoff game as well so you can tell it didn’t have mainline entry money behind it. Still looks good though.

[@TempleofShaolin]

Next year will be the first. In Japan or China I forget

[@Dd-fb2tj]

​@@TempleofShaolinnope it's set in Scotland amongst the deprived council estates in Glasgow

[@Entertainment-ev6ob]

I guarantee you ac red will not look anything like unity or have the crowd density. It’s just marketing. It’ll look slightly better than mirage with more NPCs and maybe more interactions with them.

[@nick1892syd]

You mean 'current gen'...

[@you2be839]

Yeah, it still looks good, in fact... It's fairly reasonable to say that great AAA games these days are more limited by manpower than by hardware power, and it's all well known by examples such as "GTA IV vs GTA V" & "Far Cry 2 vs Far Cry 5" video details comparisons here on KZbin.

[@guilhermemuller4780]

The character models and animation look really outdated, but other than that the setting and graphics are beautiful. Great work on the video, Tom!

[@MrBossFML]

Yeah, it really makes it hard to stay interested in the story when your character plays one of the same 5 animations in a single cutscene

[@purehollow4460]

Animation are more outdated than AC3 a ps3 game now that's an embarrassment

[@thebigzan]

​@@purehollow4460 wish you were exagerating but its true unfortunately.

[@nattila7713]

@@thebigzan no it is not :)

[@FigmentHF]

I personally feel that developers should maybe slightly stylise the NPC’s if they can’t get them to look good as realistic humans. Nothing too cartoonish, just a little more simplified and clean. It’s often the hair and eyes that really make them scruffy and unconvincing

[@BooBanana]

I hate that the cutscene animations got so much worse after Unity and syndicate. It at least made sense with the recent games since they were so huge, but there’s no excuse for Mirage. The lack of performance capture ends up making the game feel more like a cheaper AA game than a AAA one. AC games used to feel so state of the art compared to other games on the market with its own unique identity which has been completely absent since odyssey. Having said that I’m still enjoying Mirage for what it is, just was hoping for more.

[@MrVoland44]

but Mirage is cheaper AA, it cost only 50$ and not 70$

[@BooBanana]

@@MrVoland44 I think games like Uncharted Lost legacy, Miles Morales, and Phantom liberty proved you can you can still have AAA looking games for a budget price. Even Phantom Liberty used the smaller scope to make a game that surpassed the base game on a technical and visual level. Modern Ubisoft seems to try to get away with cutting corners as much as possible, and Mirage is no different, Even if it’s only $50. Their games weren’t perfect before, but they never felt cheap like they do now.

[@mandrews6282]

@@MrVoland44yah it’s clear this is a spinoff title, and thus did not get anywhere near mainline entry financing behind it. The team was probably limited resources and budget. And even as greedy as Ubisoft can often be, even they knew to only charge 50 bucks and not a full priced title. Not to take away from the game and this isn’t a bad thing. But anyone expecting cutting edge visuals (the game is still cross gen on top of it) should have immediately been alerted to lower expectations when the game landed squarely at a double A price point.

[@mandrews6282]

@@BooBananaPhantom Liberty had a pretty huge budget, as I’m sure Lost Legacy did. Also Lost Legacy had the benefit of simply reusing an already built area from the main game for most of it’s runtime, just building new missions within it.

[@thebigzan]

AC Origins doesn't have bad cutscene animations tho. It started with Odyssey.

[@existentialselkath1264]

It's incredible that so many years later, Unity still looks a lot better in some respects. Obviously this is much more technically advanced, but the move to realtime lighting took a hit that's still apparent to this day.

[@crescentmoon256]

unity is garbabe gameplay wise, stop riding the bandwagon ffs

[@PrefoX]

well light is the most intensive computation we have, in realtime and offline rendering

[@penumbrum3135]

It's not going to improve much till we move to full path tracing.

[@akosudvarhelyi4722]

​@@crescentmoon256 unity is the peak assassins creed my friend.its superior almost in any aspects to its predecesors and games that came after

[@existentialselkath1264]

@@crescentmoon256 I... wasn't talking about gameplay? It had baked global illumination, which looks better than realtime tech. Chill out

[@FSAPOJake]

I really like Ubisoft's real-time GI system. It looks surprisingly good indoors and in caves for a non-ray traced solution.

[@Ignacio.Romero]

GI looks better than ray tracing solutions when you don't have enough power. Just look at how atrocious Forza Motorsports looks

[@niks660097]

not really for a 2023 game, everything in big shadows randomly glows yellow during day, like they are radioactive, but their ambient occlusion is pretty good..

[@FSAPOJake]

@@Ignacio.Romero Forza Motorsport doesn't use ray traced GI.

[@Ignacio.Romero]

@@FSAPOJakeReflections and AO are part of a competent GI system. They wasted so much power doing this with RT that their GI solution doesn't even include specular occlusion

[@username4699]

@@Ignacio.Romero I am glad to see this mentioned, I feel like good budgeting of where hardware's power is focused is... misguided in many situations at the moment. I think that "faked" solutions to visual problems have been dropped prematurely by many developers. There's still so many situations in games where real time RT just isn't beneficial for the performance cost, especially on consoles. An effect from an older racing game I've always been fascinated by is Grid 2's handling of bounce lighting from cars. It uses light probes for environments since the weather conditions are static, but If you're driving near a wall in day conditions, a light the same color as your cars paint illuminates said wall. A very simple and subtle, but unique and inexpensive effect.

[@atmosphergeek]

Very strange you didn't talk about the awful chromatic aberration on each plateform

[@Epiousios18]

A lot of reviewers failed to mention that in general, which is kinda crazy to me.

[@xenor9262]

Yea it's making me ill just looking at chromatic aberration in AC Mirage

[@Wockes]

Chromatic aberration is the plague of modern games. I don't understand why people would ever want that

[@divinitymode9364]

Oh god. Is there no option to turn it off? There usually is.

[@atmosphergeek]

@@divinitymode9364 no toggle, it's very bad

[@DanFarrell98]

The bird flying is still so impressive with how high you can fly and then instantly switch back to your character

[@syedimaad363]

Spider-man 2 fast travel has entered the chat.

[@DanFarrell98]

@@syedimaad363 true. Also very impressive. But you don't get send so high above the whole map.

[@deathvraider6475]

Origins did it 6 years ago

[@DanFarrell98]

@@deathvraider6475 yes exactly my point

[@cheese_crab]

the lighting looks really great in this. I don't usually go for ubi games anymore because they got bloated but if this is a narrower story I might try it

[@Jaekization]

It’s a crappy story unfortunately. Really bad dialogue

[@stephencroft1612]

the story aint that good but the game is really fun, at the end of the day the gameplay is king anyway

[@stormysoup1083]

This game definitely doesn't have the usual Ubisoft bloat, this is a much tighter, more focused and well paced experience than what Ubisoft usually puts out, I think you'll be happy with it if that sounds appealing and if you like stealth games

[@andrew6]

Not bad, I look forward to picking up the complete edition in 5 years for $20

[@supergirlvideoclips894]

😂😂😂😂

[@jjnet123]

This is the complete edition 😐

[@komododragongames7444]

It'll be 20$ in 2 months like most ubi games

[@hamndv]

Proceed to buy CS2 skins for $120!

[@samsara107]

Same here. 👍🏼

[@Nutrino007]

Awesome video. I have one suggestion though: can you please include a loading time section so we can compare different consoles and PC

[@shaneywaney2]

Surprised you guys didn't mention anything about the chromatic aberration issue. Makes the game look way lower resolution than it actually is. If you crouch in a bush you can see how the game should look without it ahah

[@FigmentHF]

A lot of people don’t view cinematic post processing effects like film grain, lens flare, motion blur and chromatic aberration, as “issues”. Although I can’t speak directly for this game, or how the effect is implemented, or if it’s misbehaving in some way.

[@shaneywaney2]

@@FigmentHF oh yeah in a normal circumstance I wouldn't consider them issues either. I think having the option to toggle them should be a standard though. In mirage the chromatic aberration is definitely an issue though. It's super heavy-handed and causes there to be a lot of colour artefacts on the screen, as well as making the game appear fuzzy and lower resolution than what is actually being rendered :)

[@MerryBlind]

I haven’t tried this particular game and it likely won’t fully fix the issue for you, but make sure the Sharpness setting on your TV is disabled. It tends to make those post-processing effects look worse than they should.

[@shaneywaney2]

@@MerryBlind Hiii - yeah I've played around with my TV settings to minimise the impact of the Chromatic Aberration but it's still distracting ahaha. It's just really strange that when you hide in a bush in Mirage, it removes all of the CA for some reason and the image becomes a lot clearer and closer to how it should look resolution wise. I know that the Ubisoft team on discord have noted it down that people want the option to toggle it. So hopefully they will release a hotfix or something soon as its affecting a lot of people's playthroughs from what I've read :)

[@Pharmboy6]

This game goes WAY overboard. I usually don't mind a little bit but this is rediculous

[@turtleman9020]

It’d be nice if we got options for chromatic aberration and film grain. Would be great if they fixed HDR as well.

[@kiwiklogg]

Yes, I agree on the chromatic aberration. It is quite aggressive in this game, although I've grown to quite like it.

[@drunkhusband6257]

Best use for HDR.....disable it....absolute junk tech.

[@BugbugAdventures]

Cant believe console players still cant manipulate their graphical settings in 2023

[@wodensthrone5215]

​@drunkhusband6257 HDR is fantastic and so is Dolby Vision, if you're having issues with it get your display calibrated by someone who is ISF level 3 certified or higher.

[@JedEgan35]

I'd like to see an updated video with some performance measures taken from within the Round City - I reached that area last night and there is a big dip in performance in a lot of locations, but around Al Jahiz's house is a huge problem area.

[@princedizzy3506]

Excellent breakdown Tom, exactly what I was looking for.

[@Andrei99k]

The screen tearing and fps drops are quite severe on Series X.

[@chrisstucker1813]

Played a bit on the 30FPS mode, switched back to frame rate mode after I got fed up and it’s smooth as butter with no tearing

[@hogman3543]

PlayStation 5 just super

[@nigelo92]

Having just completed Origins it looks very similar for a 6 year gap in tech, even if this is a smaller budget release.

[@alexandrugabriel3839]

Same engine,bro,also on PS4...But on consoles if you compare Origins(PS4 base) vs Mirage Quality mode(PS5) there are differences.

[@smashishere]

There is so much more stuff and detail being rendered on screen, like view is packed with all sorts of small to big objects, crowd density is much higher and the setting is a lot denser.

[@Pharmboy6]

Ragnorok looked better and had smaller budget and release window... I honestly am not a fan of what they did for mirage

[@alexandrugabriel3839]

@@Pharmboy6They are the same,well at least on PS5 quality mode,Dawn of Ragnarok and Mirage have same quality,i even have a video on my YT channel calles Valhalla for life :))),where i play mostly as an Assassin(yes is night not during day,but same 💩),Mirage is dense,more crowded not so open and has that semi Chromatic Aberration during daylight paired with some monochromatic sharpness for some CGI effect,but Overall Mirage looks more CGI-ish,when Dawn of Ragnarok looks like Valhalla on steroids.

[@veraalves6874]

Game is beautiful but I can't help to think that Chromatic Aberration is sabotaging the experience. An option to toggle it off is a must! I'm waiting for it to arrive so i can resume my gameplay, I was loving Baghdad but I know it can be even better

[@Matt-Kin]

If you're playing on PC there's already a mod for it !

[@djbpresents9584]

@@Matt-Kin is there where

[@charizard6969]

​@Matt-Kin where???? Please

[@charizard6969]

​@Matt-Kin my head hurts from it

[@TheOutSiderNL]

link?@@Matt-Kin

[@esho6460]

Probably will pick this up in a few months, too many games coming from now until end of the year and my backlog is already pretty filled up. I thoroughly enjoyed the exploration in Valhalla even though story was kinda lacking.

[@Dick_Valparaiso]

I still haven't finished Odyssee. For all the faults I've heard about Valhalla I've heard that the exploration is possibly the best in the series. The fact that you can go to Canada is crazy. I know it isn't marked as such and is just a small representation (Makes me wonder if Oak Island is referenced/represented). Regardless, like all Ubisoft titles I'll gladly pick it up at a steep discount or play it as part of PS+.

[@danielainger8666]

@@Dick_Valparaiso if I remember rightly they call it Vinland

[@MoonSarito]

Any chance of having a video covering the last gen consoles?, it would be interesting to see how this game runs on consoles that are already 10 years old.

[@pure1pure]

3:36 mistaken Series label🤔 It should be S (as commented by voice)

[@koda7720]

3:36 I dare say that looked pretty cinematic.

[@lankyGigantic]

I'd love to see what your analysis of the last gen versions of this game would be like

[@AxelJVH97]

I didn't even realize this was out already.

[@TheOrangeSunsetGaming]

Came out last Thursday. It's pretty good honestly, feels like a good classic AC game.

[@sauldownbadman876]

​@@TheOrangeSunsetGamingexcept its 2023 not 2010

[@ConnorEllisMusic]

It was only in writing originally that it was going to be an expansion. They didn't change their mind from expansion to standalone at any point where anything could be played.

[@methedemon]

the setting and atmosphere in this game is great.

[@Venomonomonom]

Yeah that's about it sadly. Remember Last of Us 1 and Uncharted 3 was PS3. This doesn't come near imo.

[@MerryBlind]

If you find the Chromatic Aberration effect too pronounced and distracting, ensure the Sharpness setting on your TV is fully disabled. It tends to make such post-processing effects look worse than they should.

[@nO_d3N1AL]

When the video started by saying it's a smaller game, I was so glad. I have only played the original AC and a little bit of AC2, but the RPG-ness of the newer games seems intimidating. I might actually give this one a go. Shorter games are usually amongst my favourites.

[@Ozzyozzysheesh]

Why do Ubisoft games seem to all suffer from screen tearing? It’s frustrating.

[@idakev]

I know you're probably just talking about their more recent games but Far Cry 2's screen tearing was so extreme it made me think that my PS3 was broken. lol

[@Curator737]

@@Rose4MLEI can confirm that VRR doesn’t prevent the screen tearing in Mirage yet at least

[@Andrei99k]

​@@Rose4MLEVRR is useless in this game.

[@timodejong6849]

@@Andrei99k if you are on nvidia turn vsync to always on in control panel and off in game let the driver fix it. i have that setting on together with vrr and it works perfectly for me

[@Hylander_1989]

​@Xboxcurator I have VRR and 120hz switched on on my oled TV and it makes a massive difference (SX)

[@MrJomalley123]

Ill give mirage this environmental design is incredibly top notch especially for something so small in gb size but character models do look a bit rough

[@harryking7140]

What Ubisoft are able to produce on the 4tflops series s is amazing. 1600p+ in quality mode at a locked 30fps with the same graphical settings as the the X and ps5 is amazing work. Other developers should follow suit

[@reach5589]

Except for horrendous chromatic aberration and motion blur looks great on ps5, need have toggle for those options though

[@Momo4060i]

​@@reach5589no one asked.

[@techsamurai11]

Well, it means they are not using the other consoles well. The game is optimized for XSS.

[@abelald1310]

not same settings. See video again

[@PrinceVegetaBrief]

This looks like a PS4 game so no surprise

[@adrogrossz]

we are having the same spiderman games for the third time, in the same exact city, yet you still calling out this game for being just a DLC

[@thatssomegoodpie]

The graphics really haven't evolved beyond AC Unity in my opinion. Curious to see what Ubisoft could do with a 9th gen only AC game.

[@Bateluer]

Disagree with the first part of your comment, but really interested in the second part. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen until the last gen hardware is dropped completely AND their underlying engine is refreshed for current gen.

[@DeezNutsOvaYoFace]

@@Ivan-kh5ekthen why does Unity still look better? Maybe they should abandon the tech shenanigans and focus on good art design instead?

[@astronotics531]

@@DeezNutsOvaYoFacebecause unity does not look better

[@Pranjalchoudhary100]

No way unity looks better than this😂😂🤣🤣 that too in terms of graphics🤣

[@jake152]

Ya, sadly with how weak current consoles are it holds a lot of games back. I can't believe they are still at 60 FPS.

[@murathansimsek5578]

Another great video, I think the most impressive part is that Series S can run it basically above 1440p at all times. Paired with a 1440p monitor, Series S users can get a great looking experience at 30FPS

[@brandoncamp8152]

This is still essentially last gen AC tech. I would be more surprised if it didn't run that well on current gen systems.

[@SteCollects]

I heard alot of complaints on pc about the what i believe is the chromatic aberration not being able to be turned down or even off. I find it unplayable with his all textures give off some kind of rainbow effect

[@sreeshnelp]

Great review!

[@AdamH7]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the horrific chromatic aberration that can't be turned off. It decimates image quality and is making a lot of people feel nauseous. Effects like this should always be optional but even still they got it so wrong. It's over nearly the whole screen instead of the very fringes and it's incredibly strong.

[@simonuk1213]

Apparently they are aware of it and are working on a patch so we can disable it but I agree, devs spend millions on these titles just to add a crappy filter that downgrades the visuals. CA works in some cases but not when it’s implemented like this.

[@MrVoland44]

​@@simonuk1213i think thats artdirection. game called Mirage after all))

[@SLRModShop]

I find it makes game more realistic. Each time I go out I have a drone flying behind me with the cheapest go-pro I could buy. This AC looks like real life to me thanks to chromatic aberration, that's really immersive.

[@Safetytrousers]

You can turn it off on PC.

[@SLRModShop]

Sweet! Thank for the info, I'll shame my Xbox into doing it... @@Safetytrousers

[@HollowTaKe]

Unfortunately I suffer when the filters are very invasive, the chromatic aberration especially in this game makes me nauseated because at the edges of the screen it is almost 3D! even more terrible that there is no switch to deactivate it. The thing I don't understand is the choice of this filter which doesn't benefit anything, ACTUALLY it just gets worse. I hope for an update soon because it makes no sense to put the "health warnings" at the start of the game and then leave such an invasive filter. (game on ps5)

[@vincentvega3093]

If you are on PC you can pay PureDark to remove chromatic aberration

[@Akires23]

I’ve noticed myself getting woozy and slightly nauseous when playing the game, and I’m wondering if it’s because of the chromatic aberration.

[@HollowTaKe]

@@Akires23 the 3D effect in addition to a green patina can cause nausea and visual problems, beyond 10 minutes I can't go on, I get a feeling of lightness in my head and stomach

[@Matt-Kin]

On PC there is a mod already to deactivate it ;)

[@HollowTaKe]

@@Matt-Kin I play on PS5 unfortunately

[@Thijs970]

nice video as always!

[@thanksbetotap]

This game supports Dolby Vision btw. Source: the back of the Xbox game case.

[@DarqStalker]

Enjoying Mirage in Frame Rate mode on Series X. Really like the smaller scope and game. Even they synchronization points remind me of the OG AC games, where it's almost like a puzzle trying to figure out how to get to the top, compared to recent titles where you can basically just run up without much thought or trouble. The game has just enough content to keep you busy without over burdening you with countless objectives to bloat the game.

[@ScyrousFX]

That’s good to hear! Could you tell me if Series X has a toggle for motion blur or chromatic aberration?

[@MortyMore]

​@@ScyrousFXno it does not 🫣

[@bobby_c07]

I played it in performance mode for the first 6 hours and it's almost broken. Stuttering constantly and sometimes to the point of freezing for a few seconds, the worst screen tears I've ever seen in a game, and just shotty performance all around. It needs patching immediately.

[@dk06ctr]

​@@ScyrousFXthey really need to add these asap as it makes anything at not much distance blurry

[@MortyMore]

@@dk06ctr yeah annoying isn't it.

[@6kaliba9]

There is a little mistake in the video at 7:35 when you addressed the dynamic resolution on Xbox Series S, in the corner you showed the Series X logo

[@acosadorempedernido3217]

Regardless of Screen resolution the consoles and the games offer a higher internal rendering resolution?

[@joshloika2723]

What kinda tvs y’all use to have it run good I use a pc monitor with a series x that can run 4k at 60hz but I still seem to get screen tearing and fps changes so I’m wondering if it’s the monitor

[@cn21gaming57]

I have faced some micro stuttering on the Series X performance mode. It results in frame time spikes with screen tearing despite using VRR. It's not just me, I have seen videos online that confirm this issue.

[@TheSwampDonkey]

Agree. Have same issues along with hard crashes. The game is poorly optimized and needs a patch or 10

[@brewski535]

There are VRR issues on PC too right now unfortunately. I also remember Valhalla was the only game I ever had on Series X with screen tearing despite VRR. I presume it's the way their adaptive vsync works in game, at least with regard to tearing. As for VRR that I'm not sure, perhaps it's linked.

[@hannibalb8276]

Its on every platform

[@andrewsqual]

Must be the series SDK right? They forgot to send the updated ones since 2020 probably 😅

[@adrianhosein7698]

@@hannibalb8276 Not on PS5.

[@IESUproductions]

Interestingly this is how I'm finding out there even *was* a quality mode for Valhalla on Series X. It defaulted to performance mode and I always assumed it just ran at 60 fps on current-gen.

[@brandoncamp8152]

I always check settings when I first load up a game, even on console.

[@theonlymoxeris]

2023 - 15 is not 2007, its most likely says 15 in the startup logo because anniversaries are usually celebrated in 5s.

[@thanksbetotap]

Can anyone tell me if this game supports true DualSense haptics (not just standard rumble)? Thanks.

[@antoniomartini8495]

Im not agree that iss runnin good..the tearing on series x is huge..if u go in the centre of bagdad (inside the circle) is unplayable

[@oneeyeonmidgard6801]

Unity was the peak of AC. Amazing graphics and gameplay. It bothers me that every AC after, doesn’t look as good.

[@ka7al958]

It didn't have a night and day cycle or realtime lighting, and for the most part it's extremely hard to get that kind of fidelity without a baked solution, of course games like Red Dead Redemption 2 have found a solution to that problem.

[@azzxy9800]

What? unity was criticized when it first released. It's never the peak. Gravity less parkour and a boring story at that.

[@volioze4205]

they didnt went and so as much effrots after the backlash the game faced, with its many bugs. I encountered none but it was shat on so hard it probably scared ubisoft to go in the same line again

[@terminator2348]

Unity was thrashed at the time lol

[@lio220]

Unity on PS5 is a lame. But Unity on PS4 is beautiful

[@BoringKate]

I can understand leaving last gen out (you're already covering so many modes and platforms and this isn't lowspecgamer), but I imagine the base ps4 or xbox one version might have been a more interesting comparison point.

[@PRLV89]

Hdr on or off? If on which settings are the best for PS5. Thank you.

[@bmwjs1]

Another example of series S doing decent not excellent, but good enough to show that. Yeah you can still make great games on this system. It just depends on what the developer is doing. Don’t give developers excuses

[@andrewsqual]

Err sorry mate, this game is literally in the category of "runs on Xbone too". So like most cross gen games the past 3 years, there is nothing TOO glaring with series s' under-performance, which there still is. Maybe wait for more Xbox 1st party series s/x only games before making that claim again. So far Redfall and Starfield and their 30fps and disappointing current gen visual flare overall are NOT good cases for series s. Forza doesn't even look THAT incredible as a current gen only racer either.

[@chrisstucker1813]

It’s a cross gen game…

[@bmwjs1]

@chrisstucker1813 with who PlayStation? Is star field cross gen? Red fall just got a 60 fps patch *lol I don’t know if that’s cross gen my point is let people enjoy the moment dang smh*

[@10whiten99]

I’m glad the 60fps mode performs well and still retains good image quality in comparison to the 30fps mode. I hope Ubisoft continues with solid performance modes for AC, however I fear that a more updated engine in the future may struggle as last generation consoles are ditched. Also, I’m surprised that the intense chromatic aberration has not been mentioned in this video. On PS5 I have found it really distracting and it doesn’t look that good with the slightly lower resolution in performance mode. Some surfaces towards the edges of the screen can sometimes look purple at certain angles and it’s pretty jarring. I have never seen such strong chromatic aberration in a game and I really hope they add a toggle in the settings.

[@Igolorbr]

I hate that effect.

[@bobby_c07]

60fps mode performs terribly. Results in the worst stuttering and screen tearing I've seen this generation, which goes away the moment you put the game in quality mode. The lack of acknowledgement of this is wild.

[@10whiten99]

@@bobby_c07 I haven’t had this experience at all on PS5.

[@LOSTBHOY88]

@@bobby_c07I didn’t get that at the start when I was playing in Perf Mode but as soon as I started exploring Baghdad proper, there was some screen tearing every 5mins or so. Switched to Quality mode and 10hours later haven’t changed back.

[@shsgshshsdgdhdhhehe5932]

Do you guys have a borderlands 3 switch video coming soon? I think that would make for some interesting content.

[@mzmik1336]

and why it's an issue to drop at 59 fps for a second?

[@HiCZoK]

I hope more games are this "smaller". Games are way too huge nowadays

[@artemisDev]

Well, there's more than enough small games there if you know where to look.

[@HiCZoK]

@@artemisDev What kind of answer is that lol. I am saying that big games are too big. Not that there are not enough small games

[@GabrielGarcia-lw4tb]

Smaller games like this one needs to have better quality.

[@TiagodeAngelisSilva]

Fico feliz por ver a versão do SS se mostrando algo melhor do que o padrão do console até este momento, seria ótimo se todos os lançamentos fossem assim.

[@detectivemadoka69420]

Tem muito dev vagabundo, eu também estou impressionado com o S rodando alta resoluçāo em frames estáveis, mais louco ainda, em 60 cravados.

[@TiagodeAngelisSilva]

@@detectivemadoka69420 Não sei se é verdade, mas uma vez eu ouvi dizer que o SS está no nível do One X em alguns aspectos, tendo isso em mente, tem muito dev com preguiça sim!

[@detectivemadoka69420]

@@TiagodeAngelisSilva Sim, o One X ainda tem aspectos gráficos superiores ao SS, Aliasing, Occlusion, outras configuraçōes e óbviamente resoluçāo, porém os load times do One X vs SS é dia e noite, sem falar nos 60fps, mesmo que seja em baixa resoluçāo.

[@detectivemadoka69420]

@@TiagodeAngelisSilva É uma pena ver devs falar que o SS está segurando a geraçāo, sendo que aki na DF eles provam que o SS é capaz de rodar desde que saibam otimizar corretamente.

[@MonsterPotionRetro]

Finaly, i'm waiting fot this review

[@rafamuniak]

Are you planning to make Crew Motorfest video?

[@KillerZxAce]

It is very strange that there is no option at all on Xbox Series X|S and PS5 to disable: motion blur, chromatic aberration and film grain or to change your field of view. The game looks absolutely terrible on my Xbox Series X. I play on a 4K TV without VRR support and the screen tearing and frame drops (on Performance Mode) combined with constant freezing and stuttering are absolutely unacceptable. It’s very distracting and annoying and ruins the game for me. This game should have been delayed by at least a few months to fix these issues! Hopefully Ubisoft will fix this and implement a patch soon!

[@TheOrangeSunsetGaming]

What TV do you use? I use an LG C1 and haven't had a problem (performance mode without VRR turned on). This is the only game since Origins where I haven't had screen tearing at some point or frame drops.

[@michaelsan1337]

i think that option isn't even available on pc except motion blur... there's a lot of aberration that's why i removed it from my hd instantly

[@KillerZxAce]

@@TheOrangeSunsetGamingI have a 2019 Sony KD-65AF8 4K TV (65 inch).

[@fraktux]

The opposite on my PS5, I play on LG C2 with VRR no screen tearing nor frame drops. I'd like a motion blur slider but I think it isn't that bad on this game, not too aggressive like other games.

[@indian_crocodile]

Never had this issue. Your “4k tv” is the problem

[@bb5307]

Despite looking the same as assassins creed origins 6 years ago, it still looks alot better and runs better than immortals of aveum which has a similar desert like color palette aesthetic.

[@CurleeToes]

Playing on PC HDR definitely needs improving and chromatic aberration needs a option to turn it off

[@keef_khan]

Just pointing out at 3:41 the icon in top left should be Series S but it says Series X by mistake.

[@_bhuc3802]

Mirage disappointed me with its colours , devs had so much potential to play with greens and reds but they just sticked to pastelly brown

[@LaniSwe]

I also think the HUD elements and many of the different menu interfaces, including the map feel a little bit out of place. More fitting for a game with a graphics profile like Fortnite or Overwatch. I liked the Valhalla, Odyssey & Origins interfaces better.

[@magemasher13]

Thom makes great videos. Hope they take another look at redfall.

[@Mr_snappy.]

is it possible to make video where you'll compare all the consoles with pc about what graphics settings they're using on console like you guys used to Like on far cry 6 Really love those kind of video which allows to tweak the game for further improvements in fps on pc

[@nit3h8wk81]

Really hope you guys cover robocop rogue city. The demo is kinda broken right now though and DLSS looks terrible at the moment but it has potential for sure.

[@electrikoptik]

We're nearing 2024 and we're still getting cross-gen games. When will this madness end?

[@alexwilliams1204]

Its an expansion to the cross gen valhalla turned stand alone. This is not next gen assassin's creed.

[@Fafnir2000]

Well This is the last ac game 8th gen consoles will ever get

[@floodsye]

XB1/PS4 has a massive market share still, makes no sense to leave them out (even if the version they get are terrible)...and for what? We'd get some crappy ray-tracing features anyways, it's more about the game design than the graphics nowadays, most devs are running up against a graphical ceiling anyways now.

[@Fafnir2000]

@@floodsye only ray tracing? Wtf are you on about? Its not just that. Take next gen only games and compare it with cross gen games like dead space remake, plague tale requiem etc You will be literally blown away by the difference and in long run the difference would even be more like how the early ps4 games looked and how it evolved

[@electrikoptik]

@@floodsye I don't want to share my PS5 game with last-gen owners.

[@javier3108]

Uncanny npc models aside, it's unbelievable that in 2023 (AKA worst poorly optimised games in history) Ubisoft delivers a stable gaming experience *on day one* What a time to be alive! 💀

[@bobby_c07]

Performance mode is not stable at all.

[@Pranjalchoudhary100]

​@@bobby_c07what the F are you even talking about. The video says otherwise.

[@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe]

​@@bobby_c07dropping to 59fps occasionally is unstable??. What are you smoking because I'd like some.

[@InabaPrism]

I think it's very revolutionary to have Jesuschrist as the main character in an Assassin's Creed game.

[@gtelieanor]

Center of screen clean, all around the screen is fuzzy. Anybody noticed this ?

[@alumlovescake]

I heard the game had FORCED Chromatic Abberartion, it may also have stuff like DOF or Viginette all things that affects the edges of the image

[@juanestrada7757]

I really wish you guys would start uploading the videos in HDR again. Even though we know KZbin has terrible compression, I prefer it over SD.

[@Lupinvej]

Surprised you didn’t cover the horrible implementation of chromatic aberration

[@johnlemon7507]

It would be interesting to see a comparison video between GT7 vs. Forza Motorsport

[@TheBean87]

There’s been plenty, forza stands tall.

[@doctorfresh3856]

When does it come out for PC?

[@kiwiklogg]

I think this is a beautiful looking game.

[@benjaminmayall2679]

ill never understand why they thought it was a good idea to move away from the mocap cutscenes that origins had every ac game has looked significantly worse since then. honestly seen better expression from an oblivion npc. i think since ubisofts litany of bad for games good for business decisions have become commonplace the mocap teams across ubi have taken the biggest hit.

[@Keither754]

Playing soon on my Xbox One X! Can’t wait to see it for myself 🎮

[@zeus1117]

Looks and runs surprizingly good! Considering playing it on a big TV on my Series X instead of the PC.

[@OutwardYapper]

Sweet😊

[@joebloggs1691]

1620p on SS is impressive

[@ultimablackmage]

I've had some rare occasions of screen tearing on PS5(VRR is on) in performance mode, but unsure if I've had frame drops.

[@bitsbobs8158]

I'm a good 10 hours in and not seen any screen tearing yet.

[@Cgerrex]

Are you going to cover lords of the fallen?

[@3KPK3]

Looks great overall though I did expect bad NPC quality which is an issue with every Ubisoft game.

[@mistermars9534]

It's time for Ubisoft to start updating their engine's. The world looks great. The lightning is amazing. But voice acting, facial expressions, animations and more feels a generation behind. If you take screenshots from Origins and put them next to this one a casual gamer might not even see the difference.

[@thomas.deliot]

That is some seriously impressive engineering to get that quality level at 60fps on Xbox Seris S

[@xXLilSmurthXx]

It's amazing what you can achieve when effort is put in.

[@allansolano5587]

Imagine if all devs just decided to really optimize games lately and wont put out half assed games

[@kostasbousbouras2654]

It's a last looking game, nothing impressive here.

[@Striball]

It''s just nicely optimized imo. On PC I'm quite impressed

[@allansolano5587]

@@kostasbousbouras2654 still there are next gen only games looking like last gen games getting terrible performance because of optimization even on high end pcs

[@erelpc]

Is 60fps mode the way to play this game on consoles?

[@Darksjeik]

The overkill in chromatic aberration in this game is hurting the visuals imo. It’s actually straining on the eyes because it looks like you’re watching it through a slightly out of focus lens. I’m hoping for a future update giving us an option to turn it off.

[@ChisponGroxo]

It's good to see that there's still hope of getting well optimized games. This game also runs beautifully on PC.

[@TheGoncas2]

This is a cross gen game, with mostly last-gen graphics. Of course it's going to run well on current-gen hardware.

[@muhammadbilalkhan9870]

last-gen graphics? Haven't seen any AAA game this year with such good looking graphics tho@@TheGoncas2

[@dustin5742]

This game runs terribly on PC for me. Running it on a 4090 and an i9 13900K, but the frame rate stutters all the time. It drops as low as 5 fps with the average running in the 110-120 range. It appears to primarily be using 1 CPU core. Not sure if that’s the issue.

[@Pranjalchoudhary100]

​@@TheGoncas2tbh the graphics on max settings looks pretty good. Definitely not last gen😂

[@eikeshu]

@@dustin5742 From what I've heard in benchmarking videos, apparently having E-Cores on causes the game to stutter badly on intel CPUs. That might be what's happening to you. Pretty stupid problem for this game to have, but here we are. Hoping they patch it soon

[@TVPIVVA]

Awesome work Tom & The rest of the DF crew! 😊

[@MysteryD]

How could you know before watching the video?

[@TVPIVVA]

@@MysteryD Digital Foundry has been consistently doing great technical analysis work for the past 16 years since 2007. This video is no different.

[@MysteryD]

@@TVPIVVA again. How would you know before actually seeing the video? What if 3 minutes in, the video was a garbled mess?

[@Mene0]

M8 he just left a nice comment for a channel he likes. Also helps with engagement.@@MysteryD

[@TVPIVVA]

@@Mene0 hahaha right? Thank you 👍

[@lassmirandadennsiewillja3943]

has it still black bars on PC like all those bad Ports from the other games?

[@Atonam_real]

Can you mates cover the halo infinite ray tracing update for console rq

[@saelesbonsazse9919]

For my taste, the series' graphical quality reached its peak with Assassin's Creed Unity. The lighting was incredible and the character models, especially in the close-ups, the most realistic to date. The developer should remaster the game, with an increase in resolution and performance.

[@landfillao4193]

Unity is still peak AC almost across the board and it still looks gorgeous. I'm fortunate to have a decent PC that can run the game at 4k/60 so it feels like I'm basically playing a remaster but would be great to get an official one. I just want them to make another game like Unity. To me it captured a modern take on AC1 better than Mirage in everything but the settings. Unity always felt like the truest sequel to AC1 to me.

[@ProtectusCZ]

Unity with dynamic day/night cycle, increased distance rendering, 4k/60FPS... the peak AC game.

[@GodSpeed9289]

When a game studio knows how to work, we see the results. 1620p is amazing on the Series S

[@blackbeardddd]

Good one!! The engine still runs on last gen machines. Dont get cocky!

[@GodSpeed9289]

@@blackbeardddd shit did I hurt your feelings Shirley? 1620p on a 299$ machine is quite impressive. It shouldn’t upset you

[@tyler328]

So far ubisoft have done very well with the seires S

[@kostasbousbouras2654]

Totally lastgen looking game, worse than Valhalla Odyssey and Origins. Unity looks much better. So don't be so impressed.

[@TTOOS]

@@blackbeardddd 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know right....

[@DanielPerez-hy6qi]

So does 120hz and VRR help with screen tearing on series x ????

[@MysteryD]

3:35 Commentary is about Series S, upper left says Series X.

[@GraveUypo]

Wow. i never thought the day would come i would genuinely feel attracted to a game when it is mentioned that it is "scaled down" and has a smaller scope, but here we are.

[@dustin5742]

This game runs terribly on PC for me. Running it at 4K on a 4090 and an i9 13900K, but the frame rate stutters all the time. It drops as low as 5 fps with the average running in the 110-120 range. It appears to primarily be using 1 CPU core. Not sure if that’s the issue. Would love to see a video on the PC version to see if there’s a way to fix this, or if we just have to wait for a patch.

[@MrAlienw]

i have similar config and it was locked 4K 60 FPS with DLAA. Maybe the e-cores like the other comment suggest, that I already disabled

[@dustin5742]

I just tried disabling e-cores. Has a minimum of 68 fps and average of 114, but it still appears to have just as much stutter as before. I had one benchmark show a similar minimum fps prior to disabling e-cores, so I’m not sure how much of it is just luck.

[@Chris3377710]

is there screen tearing if you have a vrr 120hz tv

[@kenway346]

Testing the base ps4/pro as well?