Ghost of Tsushima - Review on PlayStation
| BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME |
Publisher : Sony Computer Entertainment / SCEE
Developer : Sucker Punch Productions
Release Year : 2020
Genre : Action / Adventure
Ghost of Tsushima is a third-person action-adventure game about the first Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274. You will take control of a samurai named Jin, who will travel through the open game world alone and fight against large forces of his enemies. The protagonist has an amazing fighting technique and owns unusual techniques and methods unknown to his opponents.
In Ghost of Tsushima, you must counter the Mongol forces by killing their commanders and helping allied minor characters. On the way you will meet a huge number of side tasks for which you will be well rewarded. The combat system accommodates a variety of striking techniques and defensive combinations, as well as high realism.
| GAME ENGINE |
Ghost of Tsushima uses Sucker Punch's proprietary engine. Among its features are very fast downloads. Also, the "weight" of the game is only 45 GB, and all the necessary data is loaded into the console's memory, without any additional access to the hard drive.
The game inFamous: Second Son was also released on this engine.
| TECHNICAL INFORMATION |
Ghost of Tsushima occupies about 47 gigabytes on the hard drive of the console.
The content size of the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro versions is identical.
| CONTROL |
The control settings are active in the main submenu and cannot be changed:
As we can see, these settings relate to special features of the gameplay.
| SETTINGS |
In the PlayStation 4 graphics settings, we have a fairly wide range of video settings:
On the PlayStation 4 Pro, you can set both the high resolution mode and the performance mode.
| COMPARISON PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro |
In this case, we are comparing PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro:
The graphics on the PlayStation 4 Pro are slightly better than on the PlayStation 4. The weather and time of day will change with each new download, so it's hard to catch the same shots. Below is our comparative video review directly in the gameplay ( be sure to watch in 4K mode! ):
| HDR OFF/ON COMPARISON |
In this section, we have presented comparisons of picture quality with HDR on and off through still photography.
The HDR mode looks a little better.
| OVERALL VISUAL GAME EXPERIENCE |
The graphics of Ghost of Tsushima are not bad, but on the PlayStation 4 Pro, a slightly lower resolution (relative to other titles) catches the eye when using a 4K monitor or TV:
The cut scenes in the game are just amazing! When choosing a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 4 Pro platform, it all depends on preferences and the available TV.
| GAME PROCESS |
Well, below are the first hour on the PlayStation 4 Pro console itself :
Well, we decided to add a similar time period for owners of the standard PlayStation 4 :
Flaws:
- the game needs more powerful hardware for a higher resolution in 4K (so we are waiting for the release of PS5, or the release of the game itself on PC)
Advantages:
- the game is better than the conveyor brothers in the face of Assassin's Creed
- a magnificent entourage of Medieval Japan!
| Game rating 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 99% [9 Votes] | PlayStation 4 | PlayStation 4 Pro 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Rating 91% [10 Votes] |