It's digitalfoundry vs Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Need we say more?
I think it's fair to say that The Lord of the Rings: Gollum captured the headlines for all the wrong reasons on its debut with bugs, performance issues, an erratic camera and unreliable controls. Now on its latest 1.3 patch, I'm finally able to test the game on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S - but even with the extra attention, I haven't played a game in such a dire state for a tech review for a long time.
Jumping over to Series S, we get two modes, performance and quality - no RT here. Otherwise, Series S is a feature match for the premium consoles, even down to the resolution. There's a dynamic 1440p on its performance mode, again going down to 1080p lowest and then a fixed 1440p on the quality mode, just like PS5 and Series X. The catch is that gameplay is capped at 30fps on Series S regardless of mode.
Enter patch 1.3, which massively improves frame-rates using the quality RT mode. In one spot in the cave, I measured 15-20fps before the patch and 30-40fps after. However, as well as losing out on some visual niceties, Gollum also escapes his shadow entirely - he goes completely unshaded in a lit spot, with even basic shadow maps not being applied.
On PS5, there's little to separate each mode for the bulk of play - with relatively minor resolution differences and infrequently used RT reflections, each with performance implications.
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