
Sonic X Shadow Generations launched towards the end of last month, and here at Pure Xbox we were rather happy with the Blue Blur's latest outing. Having said that, with this game containing a bunch of remastered content, it's always worth checking in with the tech experts at Digital Foundry on something like this - and they've come away impressed with this new Sonic experience as well.
In the outlet's latest tech review, John Linneman calls Sonic X Shadow Generations "way more than a remake", looking at all of the new content that the Shadow portion of the game brings to the table. Tech wise, DF recommends rocking the performance option on Xbox Series X and S here, even if the 60FPS mode is "noticeably blurrier" on Xbox Series S.
"PS5, Xbox Series X and even Xbox Series S offer performance and quality modes, with the 30fps quality mode being the default choice on Xbox. I'd recommend the 60fps performance mode instead, given the nature of the gameplay, some frame pacing issues, and the fact that the game still appears sharp enough at 60fps - though it is noticeably blurrier on Series S.
Shadow Generations also features temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) and dynamic resolution scaling, topping out at around 1800p in performance mode at a stable 60 on the higher-end consoles [Xbox Series X/PS5]."
This all sounds pretty good, then, and the game even seems to fare okay on Xbox One - albeit with a 30FPS cap in place at all times. Generally speaking, the only version DF notes to steer clear of is the Nintendo Switch release - due to "severely unstable frame pacing".
The Digital Foundry tech review closes out by saying that "Team Sonic has largely done a great job" with Sonic X Shadow Generations, both with its remastered sections and the game's all-new Shadow content. If you'd like to read up on our thoughts about the title, check out the full Pure Xbox review down below.
Have you been playing this game on Xbox? Happy with it? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.
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Yup, I was gonna get it for Switch, for portable pick up and play...but I got suspicious of the lack of Switch footage of the game being put out there 🙂...a youtuber confirmed those suspicions, compromises to the Shadow campaign graphics. So I went with the Series X version. I wanted the same dazzling cityscape graphics I saw in the teasers 🙂
Did they play a different game? I'm not that convinced about the performance, it has technical issues that weren't there in the 360 game and that already runs superb on a Series X.
The Switch version is the worst by far, as expected: not just half the frame rate but there are quality and frame pacing issues galore. What is shocking is that, according to John, the flawless Series X version of the original Sonic Generations is no longer flawless.
I will need to check that out. What the heck happened?
What's interesting in this video is new issues they mentioned with the BC version.
I wonder if that's something to do with downloading it from scratch these days.
I still had mine installed from years ago and I haven't had any of those issues. Even poked around to see if maybe there's a new update for the old version that might cause it.
Since the original version of Sonic Generations, all the Sonic games I've bought, with the exception of Mania on Switch, have been for Xbox. Considered this on Switch but when there's an option for 60 fps (and it still having a nice resolution) vs. 30, for a Sonic outing, it's a no-brainer which system to choose.
@Henchdog Same. I checked 2D and 3D stages today and it's running flawlessly like before.
Just making aware that Shadow Generations seems less than stellar on Xbox One, I refunded my launch day copy of Sonic Frontiers and got it on PC instead because there was this constant juddery feeling to the entire game, despite running at a pretty much perfect 30fps (this is in comparison to other smooth 30fps games on the console, like Halo Infinite). Shadow Generations not only hasn't fixed this issue, but also suffers from quite a few framerate drops, so it'll most likely feel terrible to play on the console.
The new version of Sonic Generations should be fine, as that runs at >= 1080p at 60fps on everything except Switch.
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