Console Gaming: The Lag Factor
The game is unresponsive. It’s laggy. The joypad acts in a merely advisory manner. The control is rubbish. Game reviewers and players alike can be quick to put the boot into any given release – and rightly so, if it deserves it – but at the very least there should be a way of quantifying what has come to be known as controller latency. Human perception is something of an imprecise instrument, and similar to the wayward estimations of frame-rate that sometimes creep into reviews, a more scientific approach needs to be taken to get to the heart of the issue.
Grand Theft Auto IV, Call of Duty 4, Killzone 2 and Halo 3 all put under the microscope. Read More
