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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance running on Android using mobile hardware? This we had to check out. Platinum Games' brilliant Metal Gear spin-off has been promoted for some months on Nvidia's Shield portal, with no indication of when it may actually be released. Now, it's finally available - but unlike many of Nvidia's ports that scale across Tegra hardware, only the Shield Android TV micro-console can run this one, and perhaps not surprisingly, a gaming controller is mandatory.There are good points and bad points about this conversion. Addressing the positives first, Nvidia has seemingly crammed everything from the original release into a 4GB download - to the point where the game's video sequences produce a much higher visual quality compared to the murky Xbox 360 encodes. Based on first impressions, Metal Gear Rising appears to be very close in terms of its visual make-up - we ran the game back-to-back with the Xbox 360 version and noted that aside from harsher gamma on the Microsoft console (quite possibly an RGB vs rec.709 digital component issue), the graphical features are mostly a match too.
Resolution on the new port also seems to match the last-gen console too - which is surprising bearing in mind that Shield's mobile-based technology, Tegra X1, features a GPU component significantly more powerful than the Xenos graphics tech found inside Xbox 360. We've previously noted that mobile ports tend to fall short in performance terms when stacked up to last-gen console titles, but there have been notable exceptions: Doom 3 BFG Edition in particular operates at a nigh-on flawless 1080p60 on Shield Android TV, a considerable upgrade over the 720p60 Xbox 360 and PS3 efforts, which also had more noticeable performance drops.
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