While comparing the two versions of Kingdoms of Amalur, I meticulously zoomed in on areas as much as I could to get a good grasp of what the before and after looks like. To make matters worse, framerate seems to float around quite a bit, even at a solid 60+ FPS, the game felt very jittery in places, which was odd to say the least. While we did receive an increase in resolution, going up to 4K natively, the detail relatively stays the same. I preface this in saying I went into Re-Reckoning fully expecting a big step up in graphics quality, if nothing else. Until now, we have had little to no true details about these improvements outside of pre-rendered, hand picked scenes. One of the selling points for Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, was “Improved graphical fidelity including Native 4K support!” The question is, just how much of an improvement are we talking about? This is a huge point for me, because we have had so many remasters lately that were either astonishingly amazing, completely remade, or not even touched and just dubbed “remaster” for sales reasons only. While this true upscaling goes a long way in terms of getting rid of blurry textures at higher resolution, it does little in terms of creating a higher fidelity texture. While they are truly upscaled properly, it does not appear that any of them have been hand altered at all.
Immediately I was hit with the realization that we didn’t receive a full-on remaster of the textures. So of course, I cranked them all to max setting and jumped in-game for some hands on goodness.
The additions of FXAA, Borderless Windowed mode, and Supersampling made me very excited to see what happened with the graphical fidelity. We can finally change the camera distance, height, and field of view! This was one of my main gripes of the original version, and a feature I am very glad to see. Not only do we have new graphics settings, we also have new camera settings. Being a remaster I had hoped to see new settings, and boy I wasn’t disappointed here. Right off the jump, I went straight into the options. I ran both versions of Kingdom of Amalur at 1440p with the graphics settings maxed out on each version. I have an EVGA 1080ti FTW3 Hybrid running two monitors, an Acer Predator 27 inch, and another monitor, almost identical, only it’s a non-predator model.
I rock an i7-6700k with 32gb of 3000 MHz ram.
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