The Witcher 3 on PS5/XSX is the definitive version of one of the best RPGs ever
How can you tell that someone’s favourite game is The Witcher 3? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you first.
You aren’t reading this to determine whether or not The Witcher 3 is good. You’re reading this because you’ve been dying to go back to it, and you’re wondering if this latest update, which brings the games to modern consoles, is worth sacrificing the next 6 months to 2 years of your free time.
The Witcher 3 is an iconic title and one of modern gaming’s most beloved stories, but most people have already played it multiple times and bought it for multiple consoles. Is it worth spending dozens, if not hundreds of hours with Geralt again?
Well, we were sceptical, but after our first night with the PS5 version, which saw us staying up till 4 AM in a “one more quest,” trance, the answer was simple. I’m afraid you’re going to play The Witcher 3 again.
The game offers two graphical modes, a performance mode which will rigidly lock the game to 60FPS, with a dynamic resolution and a ray tracing mode. The ray tracing mode is perfect if you’re going on a photo mode adventure throughout the world, but practically, it’s pretty unstable.
In busy areas, or when multiple enemies are attacking you, forcing the players to swing the camera wildly, the frame rate is erratic. Funnily enough, it’s similar to playing the game at launch on a base PS4, although orders of magnitude prettier.
The 60FPS mode is where the game excels. You don’t get the full resolution of the ray tracing mode, but the cleaned-up graphical bells and whistles are mostly included, and anything that’s lost is a small price to pay for how much better the game plays at 60.
It’s not all bells and whistles, there is some new content in this update, including a quest to fetch armour
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