{"id":324861,"date":"2025-10-18T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2163827"},"modified":"2025-10-18T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:55:46","slug":"crysis-3-remastered-is-shaping-up-beautifully-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/crysis-3-remastered-is-shaping-up-beautifully-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Crysis 3 Remastered is shaping up beautifully on Nintendo Switch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/crysis-3-remastered-is-shaping-up-beautifully-on-nintendo-switch.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have benchmarked no game more than Crysis 3. It took pride of place in our GPU and CPU testing for a colossal eight years &#8211; longer than any other title. And even today, the fully maxed Crysis 3 PC experience poses profound challenges to the most powerful PC components on the market. That&#8217;s one reason why we&#8217;re still playing the game, the other is &#8211; put simply &#8211; that we love it, and the good news is that the upcoming Nintendo Switch rendition of Crysis 3 Remastered is shaping up very, very nicely. The idea of this game running well on a 2015 mobile chipset &#8211; downclocked, no less &#8211; is mind-bending but there it is.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of good reasons why Crysis 3 Remastered runs well on Switch and that starts with the scalability of the original game. Yes, Crytek&#8217;s 2013 game is monstrously demanding at its highest settings, but knock back the quality presets and it turns out to be far more manageable on a wider range of kit &#8211; and let&#8217;s not forget that there was a rendition of the game that ran on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Yes, it didn&#8217;t run particularly well, but a foundation was there &#8211; and in actual fact, the Switch version is scaled up from those last, last-gen versions of the game. That leads us onto the second key reason why this project succeeds: the quality of the developer. The entire Crysis Remastered Trilogy on Switch was handled primarily by Saber Interactive&#8217;s Swedish studio. It did a great job on the first Crysis Remastered, but its pedigree goes further than that &#8211; this is the studio that pulled off the impossible with the Switch conversion of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. <\/p>\n<p>The video content on this page demonstrates rather well how good the Switch port of Crysis 3 looks, but at the fundamental level, Saber takes the PS360 version, strips out the lacklustre post-process anti-aliasing of the period and replaces it with TAA &#8211; all but eliminating the pixel popping, jaggies and shimmering. This is just a first look, so we&#8217;ve not gone deep in terms of comparisons, but it&#8217;s also clear that detail levels &#8211; particularly on grass &#8211; have improved tremendously. Quality upgrades are thinner on the ground compared to Crysis and Crysis 2 Remastered, but once again, SVOGI real-time global illumination is added &#8211; even on Switch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2021-crysis-3-remastered-is-shaping-up-beautifully-on-nintendo-switch\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2021-crysis-3-remastered-is-shaping-up-beautifully-on-nintendo-switch\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have benchmarked no game more than Crysis 3. It took pride of place in our GPU and CPU testing for a colossal eight years &#8211; longer than any other title. And even today, the fully maxed Crysis 3 PC experience poses profound challenges to the most powerful PC components on the market. That&#8217;s one reason why we&#8217;re still playing the game, the other is &#8211; put simply &#8211; that we love it, and the good news is that the upcoming Nintendo Switch rendition of Crysis 3 Remastered is shaping up very, very nicely. The idea of this game running well on a 2015 mobile chipset &#8211; downclocked, no less &#8211; is mind-bending but there it is. 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