Dave writes: "At first glance, XIII looks like a video game. It has graphics, sounds come out of the speakers, and a character moves when you touch the pad. But sit down to play it, and you’ll realise that it’s held together with sticky tape and paper clips, collapsing into scraps when you play for more than five minutes."
The original was incredibly mediocre. Not sure why anyone expected more out of this.
They put out a patch and it is still unplayable.
Stealth dropping your last generation game on launch day for next gen consoles is a garunteed way to stay under the rader and hardcore fans claiming it sucks will be drowned out by next gen talk.
At least on ps5 it has way less tearing and runs stable at 60fps.
Why did they do this again? I remember the original being free as a bonus on many PC mag cds/dvd back in the day after it bombed on release. It was barley teetering on un-playable. All of XIII’s “charm” was lost or unrecognizable in that mess. Some things never change.