Digital Foundry: Assassin’s Creed Rebel Collection analysis

Digital Foundry: Assassin’s Creed Rebel Collection analysis

Digital Foundry’s latest game analysis is the port collection of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag and Assassin’s Creed: Rogue. The Assassin’s Creed Rebel Collection.

Assassin’s Creed Rebel Collection is available right now on the Nintendo Switch and seem to be basically ports of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of each game. 

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Assassin’s Creed Rebel Collection analysis summary

  • Docked is a dynamic 1080p while portable is dynamic 720p
  • Lowest resolution scale for Black Flag was about 900p and about 828p for Rogue when docked, no real mention of dropping below 720p portable
  • Both games run at mostly 30 FPS locked, with the intro sequence of Black Flag dropping the FPS the most to around 25-30 FPS
  • FPS is slightly better when playing portably, Black Flag intro sequence only drops to about 28 FPS for instance
  • Both games have frame pacing issues
  • Shadow quality and ambient occlusion are a bit better than on PS3/360
  • Audio quality is lower than PS3/360, but not as bad as AC 3 on Switch
  • Anti aliasing is slightly worse than on PS3/360, but the resolution boost on Switch makes up for it somewhat
  • Mini map refreshes at 15 FPS