But, that’s not to say that it’s a frequent occurrence. For the record, it would appear to happen a little more often on the Xbox One version than the Playstation 4. It isn’t perfect – areas with dense vegetation and complex shading can occasionally have a little pop-in, but all in in all it’s a league above what we were used to. It helps breath life into the world of Kyrat, allowing you to feel that you can really climb that mountain in the distance. Using the camera to zoom into a specific area of the world, hang-gliding from a hill top and zip-lining from a tower at speed no longer produces rather obvious pop-in of tress and grass on either version of the game. The previous generation consoles had really struggled with Far Cry 3’s dense vegetation – particularly when factoring in the rather large map size. This is still a massive increase in pixels over say 900P, and frankly still looks rather stunning. This means the PS4 version of the game runs at a native total of 2,073,600 pixels, while the Xbox One manages 1,555,200 (assuming 1440×10800). Sure enough, our own pixel counting appears to backup their results. Prior to us starting our tests, news popped up on Beyond3d Forums that the native resolution wasn’t true 1080P.

The Xbox One version appears to not be running at native 1080P however, but rather 1400×1080.

Starting off with the Playstation 4, Ubisoft confirmed that the title would run at a native resolution of 1080P, and through pixel counting, it would appear that this is indeed the case. After AC Unity’s release, there were concerns over FC4’s quality is it possible it’d suffer from the same fate? Fortunately not, Far Cry 4 looks every bit as visually impressive as we’d hoped, across both next generation consoles. Far Cry has a history of being visually impressive, from the original title released on PC over 10 years ago, to Far Cry 3 which pushed previous generation consoles to their limit, we’ve yet to be disappointed.

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