PC players have also been treated to an excellent port with the full
suite of graphical options and all the bells and whistles PC gamers have come to expect.
Before diving into the main
topics of graphical options and performance, let's quickly cover all the other points that contribute to the technical quality of a game.
Many claim both old and new bugs made their way into the remasters, as well as some clunky mouse controls and a complete
lack of graphical options to tweak.
This latest patch has added a
host of graphical options, as well as smoothing out the frame rate and general performance of the game.
There is an impressive
amount of graphical options to tweak to your liking, as well as Low, Medium and High presets if you want to jump right into action with minimum fuss.
, higher frames per second (depending on how powerful your PC is) and a
slew of graphical options like, anti-aliasing, scalable textures and shadow quality, to name a few.
Still, we do start off on something of a sour note as a trip to the settings menu reveals a distinct and disappointing
lack of graphical options, except for being able to change the resolution and adjust the gamma.
Thoman spends much of his pre-release preview comparing and contrasting the
range of graphical options, performance between the two games and the console release of Dark Souls II.
Crytek's continuing to live on the edge with the release of Crysis 3, which thankfully ships with a much broader
suite of graphical options than Crysis 2 originally possessed.
While this isn't exactly a major problem that will kill your enjoyment of the game, it frankly feels lazy on Namco Bandai's behalf, and when coupled with the lack
of graphical options it doesn't set the tone for the rest of the port well.
-- Lack
of graphical options.
The lack
of graphical options is something of a shame, but that's mitigated by the fact that Big Pharma really isn't a demanding game, so even a potato should be able to run it without any hiccups, although its demand for a minimum of 4 GB of Ram is a little surprising.
On the performance front the developers kindly provide a range
of graphical options, and on my system maintaining 60 FPS at 1440P with everything bar anti-aliasing ramped up was possible.
The small amount of Steam reviews available list poor combat, bad optimisation, a lack
of graphical options, shortness, unresponsive controls, random audio spikes and dips, unkillable enemies and much more.