IGN has taken on a pretty thorough performance review of Dragon's Dogma 2 ahead of its public launch tomorrow, and the results are a bit of a mixed bag for the upcoming Capcom ARPG.
The review, which you can sit down and soak in via the video up above, goes over all versions of the game including Xbox Series X and S. Series S misses out on some of the higher-end features you can expect from Series X and PS5 - like ray tracing capabilities.
With Xbox Series X, the results are quite mixed, looking at this review. Image quality seems a fair bit better on PS5, even if the resolution figures should be pretty similar. However, frame rate is a win for Series X - Microsoft's higher-end system seems to turn in the best console performance figures at launch.
That performance win doesn't smooth everything over though, and the review does caution players who are sensitive to performance hiccups:
"If I was a betting man I would suspect over the next few months or so patches will come that will improve the consistency, if not the overall performance, across the board. None of this distracts from the superb game that Dragon's Dogma 2 is, but if you are sensitive to frame rate fluctuations, it may be worth giving them the time before embarking on this majestic journey."
Here at Pure Xbox, we largely agree with this sentiment too. Dragon's Dogma 2 isn't the smoothest performing game we've ever seen, especially at launch, but it's still an amazing adventure that's absolutely worth embarking on.