I'm still impressed they can render the same environment six times without suffering a frame rate hit. There are devs who frown upon making split-screen multiplayer or PiP effects because telling the engine to render the same world more than once means a nasty frame rate drop, unless you resort to simplified arenas.

Audio must really suck though. Hearing everyone's engines layered on top of each other does not sound pleasing.

Again, this is originally a mobile game. I have it on my S3. I'm going to take a wild guess (since the PC version is like this) that they didn't really bump up the visuals much from the mobile to what you may see on the Xbox One multiplayer modes.

It's not a bad looking game but it's nowhere near the visual powerhouse people would expect from a current-gen release. And from the look of that photo (and yes, it's a bad thing to go off an off-center photo of a game) it doesn't really look that different from the mobile version.

Actually, here is a screenshot of the game featuring four-player splitscreen from the PC release.


Again, it's not the most visually demanding title. And just for the hell of it, here are the min and recommended specs for the PC version.

If the Xbox One couldn't handle this game at 60fps, there would be something super wrong there.

I was thinking rendering Hydro Thunder six times simultaneously would put a frame rate hit on the Xbox One, let alone a game using Shader Model 3 on Direct X 10 (admittedly the level geometry doesn't look too complex). Clearly I'm underestimating what current gen consoles are supposed to do. On a side note, I recently got the game from the Android Humble Bundle, but I do not know how poorly it'll run on my phone. Should be interesting when I get around to it.

Still not sure what the audio would sound like on 6 players. Especially with the engines constantly revving and layered on each other.