Digital Foundry takes a closer look at Breath of the Wild

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Hynad said:

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Yeah, besides the obvious differences in art style, Far Fry 2-4 on PS3/360 are quite similar to BotW in that they feature open worlds with lots of vegetation, scattered enemy encampments and wildlife, etc. They seem like the most logical point of comparison in my view.

Far Cry 3 and 4 on PS360 are impressive technical accomplishments for the hardware they're running on, but overall, I'd give BotW the edge as it seems to have a bigger world with denser and more interactive vegetation, as well as a slightly higher screen resolution. (720p versus cropped sub-HD in Far Cry)

I don't know. Both have a lot of pop-ins, and Farcry has quite a lot of NPCs and from what we've seen so far of BOTW, it doesn't seenm like it is as densely populated as Farcry 3 or 4. Vegetation, except for the grass, is also quite simple compared to what's found in the FarCry series. 

There may well be towns will plenty of NPCs in BotW, we just don't know that this point cos we were shown just the one area.

Far Cry 2-4 have better looking trees than Zelda, but the grass, in addition to being less dense, still seems to be clumped into fixed 2D tufts, as opposed to the interactive individual blades in Breath of the Wild. (I'd really like to know what trick Zelda's using for its grass, incidentally)

Far Cry 3/4 on PS360 also have heavy screen tearing and run in sub-HD.