Furthermore, split screen, character and weapon customization, and emblem editor are only available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Upon installation, the game will require 8 GB of storage space on PlayStation 3. Xbox users will need 8 GB of space for download and installation. Availability of the bonus download of the original Call of Duty: Black Ops included in physical disc copies and digital downloads of Call of Duty: Black Ops III for PlayStation 3 and Xbox is limited to while supplies last, and will expire on physical disc copies by May 6, More information will be announced at a later date.
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Supporters only Letter from the Editor: Feast and famine. The 10 most popular stories of the day, delivered at 5pm UK time. Never miss a thing. Black Ops 2 on PS3 suffers from noticeable hit to image quality, where the additional blur comes from Treyarch's choice method of anti-aliasing. As a result, the scales up an x native resolution alongside 2x MSAA to create a crisper image, while PS3 uses lower precision post processing to mask the jaggies.
The benefits from higher resolution alpha buffers on explosions, as seen behind the wrecked vehicles in the distance. The lower resolution buffers on PlayStation 3 help mitigate bandwidth issues in the Sony architecture and we saw similar compromises in World at War and Modern Warfare 3.
Grass can come across as a bit plain on both consoles compared to Battlefield 3's due to the absence of ambient occlusion on console. This option is available on the PC version, though appears understated - and often absent - during our tests. Shadows appear largely like-for-like in our tests, though slightly filtered on Real-time shadows can sap system performance, and every millisecond counts on a console title.
PC has the horsepower to put on a better show here. The silver lining for the PS3's post processing is its more thorough edge-detection. Here, the yellow stair bannisters and notches on the topside of the gun show less prominent stair-stepping - though, this comes at the cost of increased blurring to textures.
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This includes a magazine attachment that increases the caliber of bullets for better damage at range, and a long barrel that improves accuracy, and some stability when maneuvering more slowly. Complete with some additional parts for tempering increased recoil, it allows this weapon to compete with some of the Assault Rifles at those prolonged distances. Combined with a magazine attachment chambered in higher caliber ammunition, this variation on the highly mobile Submachine Gun via the Weapon Blueprint makes it a unique addition to your loadouts on day one.
So long as your aim is true, this weapon can be used to aim around corners and down targets with a single burst. Specific dates will be revealed in the coming weeks.
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Experience a universe-expanding Zombies crossover. It's all there. All of this you'll know already, having read the Eurogamer review or perhaps bought the game on launch day. Now's the time for Digital Foundry to step in and take a look at the respective merits of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox versions of the game we'll be taking a closer look at the PC release this weekend.
Let's kick off with the assets then. This is always the first part of the Face-Off process: capturing the games, synchronising clips, extracting images for the comparison gallery and then editing the head-to-head movie.
You might have noticed that we've occasionally posted these assets earlier recently: it gives you a chance to check out the raw elements while we're still poring over them. Xbox vs. First impressions, then. Aside from the gamma difference which we're inclined to believe emanates from the HANA chip on , there is an essential level of parity between the console versions of the game's artwork. Texture difference issues in the COD games should be a thing of the past after Modern Warfare 2, where background data streaming was introduced into the console version of the engine; but while there are some minor texture and tech issues we'll address later, it appears that variations in streaming performance account for most of the minor differences you see in the screenshots.
Both console versions of Black Ops are once again sub-HD. Call of Duty has always been a 60FPS experience - or as close to it as the hardware allows at any given point during gameplay.
Infinity Ward made the decision to downscale onscreen resolution in order to create as much temporal resolution as possible - the idea being that a more arcade-style feel to the visuals along with crisper response from the pad would make the game unique. The COD games in the past have hovered around the x mark, with 2x multi-sampling anti-aliasing. Combined with quality upscaling, the game still looks the part. For Black Ops, there have been changes.
To the PS3 version at least. We'll post a movie tomorrow comparing PC running at native p to both and PS3 versions so we can see exactly how the resolution cut stacks up, but it's fair to say that while the Xbox game has a slightly cleaner look to it, this isn't really a deal-breaker for PS3 gamers.
Black Ops is a good-looking release on both formats. In previous Call of Duty titles we've seen that the Xbox version of the game produces noticeably superior performance. There was the sense with Modern Warfare 2 that Infinity Ward went for platform parity in terms of the visuals, even if it meant a frame-rate hit on the PlayStation 3 game.
However, with Treyarch's last COD title, World at War, there was evidence that the developer wasn't afraid to make some fairly basic, mostly innocuous changes to the visuals in order to close the performance gap.
The challenge facing Treyarch is that the enhancements made for Modern Warfare 2 really seem to have pushed the tech close to the limits, and rather than just tweak the engine for Black Ops there are a number of enhancements: animation particularly facial animation is much improved, and skin shaders on the characters are phenomenally good, to the point where the developer is not afraid to use its "actors" as talking heads to relay plot information.
Lighting improvements made in Modern Warfare 2 also appear to have been skilfully deployed in Black Ops, and the developer isn't afraid of tossing around copious amounts of alpha - blending transparent textures traditionally introduces plenty of performance issues.
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