Resident Evil Village for iPhone review

11 November 2023
The only thing spookier than the monsters is the frame rate.

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At least the developers can flaunt "console level graphics" for this port, never mind your latest phone being weaker... After all iPhone was never meant to be a gaming phone.
Plus, this will motivate Apple to bring in gaming devices.
Also, the developers must be congratulated for being future-proof, by a big margin too.

Ahh well... I'm not even sure what's serious and what's satire in my comment.

    The ones believing that this would be next revolutionary thing for smartphone gaming 🤡🤡🤡

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      • Anonymous
      • MNv
      • 14 Nov 2023

      This game requires a good GPU whc«ich apple's Bionic is not. They're CPU wise excellent.
      Port this to Android and you'll see a steady 30FPS

        Anonymous, 13 Nov 2023I wish there more AAA games for iPhones. can't stop p... moreWe should see plenty more of them coming as Apple users are typically more willing to purchase and support development of hugh quality apps, games, accessories etc…

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          • Anonymous
          • MPZ
          • 14 Nov 2023

          Anonymous, 12 Nov 2023Just get a Steam Deck/ Asus Rog/ Aya Neo/ Gpd/ etc. with AM... moreThe exynos has amd graphics but its exynos which probably cancel it out

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            • Anonymous
            • xK5
            • 13 Nov 2023

            Am I somehow the only one who couldn't care less that I can have some raytracing in some games on my phone? Especially if performance isn't smooth?

            The game wasn't even meant for mobile anyway, who cares if textures look a bit better - right before the game crashes because it isn't optimized in any way for the device it's retrofitted to run on.

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              • Anonymous
              • PU4
              • 13 Nov 2023

              Anonymous, 13 Nov 2023If they can put this on an apple tv (a17 or m3)with 16 gb r... moreNah, apple silicon seems good at sprint example: hitting play button always doesn't start the video because the processor is guessing the command mostly it fails, people don't recon it because they usually long press. A17/M3 doesn't have endurance, gaming demands consistency for longer durations.

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                • Anonymous
                • IWY
                • 13 Nov 2023

                SizN80, 13 Nov 2023Yep, looking forward to more ports 😁 Apple have really br... moreI wish there more AAA games for iPhones.
                can't stop playing RE on the go.

                  Graphics in the gameplay video look pretty bad. It's a combination of the low quality 2d textures they use for foliage and stuff and the low 3D resolution. I know the graphics aren't remotely as poor, but watching that reminded me of watching GoldenEye gameplay for a Nintendo DS.

                  And how's the framerate so terrible? So much for this so-called "optimization" everyone talks about with Apple.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • t7X
                    • 13 Nov 2023

                    If they can put this on an apple tv (a17 or m3)with 16 gb ram and a silent fan do you think apple has made a console?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • XSs
                      • 13 Nov 2023

                      SizN80, 13 Nov 2023Yep, looking forward to more ports 😁 Apple have really br... moreMobile gaming is half dead lol

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                        • Fliplife
                        • PSL
                        • 13 Nov 2023

                        K8nd of dissappoint8ng. All that performance and pretty average return. Doesn't sound like you'd want to actually use it long term

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                          • Anonymous
                          • ku%
                          • 13 Nov 2023

                          Anonymous, 12 Nov 2023Just get a Steam Deck/ Asus Rog/ Aya Neo/ Gpd/ etc. with AM... moreI think you missed the point. Why would you spent another $500 on a device when you can get compareable performance on something you already own (as a phone).

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                            • Anonymous
                            • qVd
                            • 13 Nov 2023

                            Anonymous, 13 Nov 2023I use and buy the latest galaxy phone every year. But for g... moreOh I forgot my point. My Tab S8 was heating where you can't control the screen above the CPU without it not taking you're input. Same with s9. The iPad with the same games has no issue less heat and even higher frame rates.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • qVd
                              • 13 Nov 2023

                              Anonymous, 13 Nov 2023good luck playing on overheating socI use and buy the latest galaxy phone every year. But for gaming I have both the S9 , before was the S8 tab and the iPad M1 and before the iPad pro with I believe Z13 . Even the old I pad is better than the tab s9 in gaming I barely touch the Samsung tablet. I only buy it because Samsung made me trade in the old one and get the new one for $200.

                                Anonymous, 12 Nov 2023Same, just try on normal 15 pro, quite impressive the resul... moreYep, looking forward to more ports 😁
                                Apple have really brought life to mobile gaming.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 04N
                                  • 13 Nov 2023

                                  good luck playing on overheating soc

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • vx4
                                    • 12 Nov 2023

                                    Just get a Steam Deck/ Asus Rog/ Aya Neo/ Gpd/ etc. with AMD Ryzen Mobile SoC RDNA2 iGPU. It can also emulate multi platform games from old days to newer ones. Can even Multi-boot Linux, Windows, Android any flavor you like. Etc. At quarter the cost of icrap.

                                      I think heat proof update puts the performance under question mark, as it was advertised to be ray tracing enabled version of RE village and naturally 60fps in rendering which suffered from the unwanted heat and subsequently a throttle patch which only shows better performance by claims and some benchmark screenshots.

                                        What did you expect.
                                        Since vry ong time Apple is great only on benchmarks in other words paper score.
                                        Real life tests always proven even an SD695 preforms way better than Apple chips.
                                        For a good on paper you cant expect good on real life tests.

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