Zombi runs on the LyN Gen3 engine, which has been developed by Ubisoft for the Wii U. This was meant to effectively maximize performance above all else. The LyN engine was used in Red Steel 2, From Dust, Rabbids Go Home (with Zombi starting out originally as a Rabbid-killing title) and is rumoured to be the engine used in Beyond Good & Evil 2.

Now that Zombi is on the PS4 and Xbox One, is the LyN engine really required seeing as both platforms are more than capable of strong performance with better visuals? Developer Straight Right was obviously tasked with creating a straight port (no pun intended) with some neat bells and whistles attached. And from what we’ve seen, the gameplay has pretty much tossed all Wii U functionality out the window.

Head to head comparison – PS4 [left], Xbox One [middle], PC [right]:

Rather than viewing your backpack on the GamePad’s screen, which opened you up to attacks since the game doesn’t pause, you’ll see it on the main screen. Players are still vulnerable to zombies attacking in this state but much of the tension of looking away is gone. The two-player mode which allowed one player to use the GamePad to deposit zombies into a second player’s game on the main screen is also gone. What about this port then makes it stand out, especially when it’s arriving a good three years later?

Zombi runs at native 1920×1080 resolution on both the Xbox One and PS4. So far, so good and the sharper texture filtering is a bonus. The hardware on both current gen consoles also facilitates highly reduced loading times. Texture quality has been improved significantly but you’ll find the highest quality in the PC version (despite similarities across all three current gen versions). Straight Right seems to have modified the lighting system but unless you stop and observe your environments closely, it’s not immediately apparent. The field of view has also been expanded. Poor use of Chromatic Aberration results in reduced sharpness on-screen, while the post process anti-aliasing smoothens out the edges enough. An anti-aliasing solution is present but it’s implementation is a bit spotty. Regardless, the custom solution does a decent job.

Otherwise, in terms of art style, alpha parameters and volumetric effects, Zombi resembles its Wii U predecessor almost exactly. If you were a fan of the dirty lens filter effect, then you might be slightly bummed to hear that it’s gone. Honestly, it’s a purely subjective aesthetic but it would have been nice to see some kind of option to enable or disable it manually. This would have provided current gen players a look at just how the Wii U version felt (though the clunky combat will more than assist you in that endeavour).

It’s the frame rate performance that ultimately disappoints in Zombi. You’d expect a Wii U port to PS4 and Xbox One to run at 1080p resolution and 60 FPS, right? Straight Right only received half the memo as Zombi runs at 30 frames per second on both consoles. It would be one thing if the frame rate were locked at 30 FPS but it sees its share of drops. It admittedly drops to the high 20s every now and then but on powerful hardware like this, that’s hardly any consolation. Again, this game launched in 2012. A locked frame rate should be a given and 60 FPS should have been the priority on Xbox One and PS4.

PC users will be better off as usual. It’s possible to hit 60 frames per second using a mid-level GPU. Our test configuration consisted of an Intel Core i7-5960X with 16 GB of RAM. Settings were turned up all the way across six different GPUs – the Nvidia Titan X, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 770, Radeon R9 290X and Radeon R9 290 – and there were absolutely no issues in achieving a steady 60 FPS.

PC Graphics Settings are limited.

But – and you knew it was coming – there isn’t any other real advantage to playing the PC version. The texture quality is slightly better than consoles but nothing else has been improved, whether it is lighting or other effects, from the console versions. One could at least expect significantly better texture work but alas, that’s not the case.

There isn’t much more to be said about Zombi and that sums up the game’s entire existence till this point. A sequel was planned at some point but cancelled by Ubisoft since the first game wasn’t profitable. This port is as rudimentary as can get and the obvious objective is to try and earn some revenue from current gen consumers while expending little by way of resources.

If you really want to play Zombi, then the PC version is your best bet. It’s possible to achieve 60 FPS without the highest of the high-end hardware and thus acts as a significant game changer. That the consoles never received a 60 FPS frame rate option still baffles us. If you’re really desperate to know what the gameplay appeal of Zombi is, then the Wii U version is worth looking into to satisfy your curiosity. There’s little else to recommend either the 2012 or 2015 version by in terms of graphics though.

Note: Performance analysis was carried by Bill Smith.

Along with the extra content like Tongs’s Rescue mission and the Missing Link, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut will have its bosses re-balanced and fixed to allow for multiple play-styles to be used. So if you were complaining because your uber-hacker couldn’t match an enemy’s brute force, you’re in luck.

The Director’s Cut will also feature several Wii U specific features such as using the GamePad to hack computers and peek around corners while sneaking. You’ll also be able to manage items and inventory space on the fly via the touchscreen.

Watch out for Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut in 2013.

Game designer Emile Pedneault, in an interview with Joystiq, addressed that. “The boss fights are now as they should have been. We took them and completely rebuilt them. We couldn’t change [the boss’ character] model and the way they need to die because of the story telling, but we changed the level layout. We tweaked their AI and we’ve added tons of ways to deal with them.

“You can deal with a boss fight in a stealth way, you can deal with a boss fight in a hacking way. We even have for each boss fight a way to kill them without firing a single bullet.”

So if you ever felt that your Revenge of the Nerds version of Adam Jensen was unfairly persecuted by the jock of a boss, here’s your chance for revenge when Deus Ex: Human Revolution releases for Wii U on May 7th.

Take Deus Ex: Human Revolution, developed by Eidos Montreal. It seems the Australian Classification Board has provided further evidence as to the action RPG heading to the Wii U with a new listing – registered on March 1st 2013 – where the version is specified as “Modified”. The author is of course Eidos Montreal with Square Enix acting as publisher.

The game even has the same rating (MA 15+) as the original version released in 2011 for Xbox 360, PC and PS3. Coincidence?

Regardless, this only lends further credence to the rumour. Earlier, the technical project manager at Straight Right (who ported Mass Effect 3 to Wii U) stated on his online resume about “porting a triple-A Square Enix game to the yet-to-be-released Wii U platform”. Keep an open mind as usual.

Read more from Player Attack: http://www.playerattack.com/news/2013/03/03/report-deus-ex-human-revolution-for-wii-u/#ixzz2MZFmEHUa

Source: PlayerAttack

The answer is Mass Effect: Genesis II, an interactive graphic novel that allows players to make choices, forge romances and pretty much bring everything up to speed for Mass Effect 3. It has 12 plot points overall where the player will have to make their choice, and these range from whether to save the council or not in the first game, or to salvage the Collectors’ ship for the Illusive Man or not in the second game. Hit up Siliconera to see the full list of choices.

Mass Effect 3 is already available for Wii U.