Bioshock coming to iOS (iPhone 5/5s/5c, iPad mini 2, iPad Air)

[Alpherah]

Just seen the news online, I'm wondering how close they manage to get it graphically to the original - it's good in a way that they have limited it to fairly new hardware so we can finally see what the newer mobile chipsets are really capable of (although I would have dropped the 5 and 5c also )

Anyone plan to get?

 

[Pottsey]

It’s not looking very good graphically from the little bits I have seen. Far worse then current mobile games.

The problem seems to be space more than hardware they have a 2gig file limit and so had to remove/reduce a lot of things to fit into the space requirements even if the hardware could have run them.

EDIT: quote

"In order to work better with iOS hardware and to fit into the 2GB size limit imposed by Apple, the game will feature slightly scaled-down graphics. This means that certain gameplay elements such as shadows and fog won’t be as elaborate as those in the console version. "

Looks like its a port of the console version not the better looking PC version.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Really? You expect them to port the PC version with high res textures?

I'm not defending the 2GB cap (although I see why that's there), if they can port the console version to a phone, they've done well IMO.

Hopefully if they bump the minimum size of the iPhone/iPods they'll bump the 2GB cap.

 

[Pottsey]

Really? You expect them to port the PC version with high res textures?

I'm not defending the 2GB cap (although I see why that's there), if they can port the console version to a phone, they've done well IMO.

Hopefully if they bump the minimum size of the iPhone/iPods they'll bump the 2GB cap.

With the PVRTC2 texture compression I cannot see why they cannot have high res textures. Hopefully they use that and to make up for some of the space restrictions. But that’s still what 5 to 8gig of other data that somehow needs to be cut out?

 

[jas72]

Wish I'd seen this thread just bought it for my ipad retina (4g) and it doesn't work.

It says it's compatible with Ipad 4 but simply doesn't get past the splash screen.

Would loved to have had it but won't buy a new ipad for it

Apple were very quick to reimburse.

EDIT : Just read that it's currently incompatible with iOS8.4.

Hope they get it fixed soon.
Will rebuy it if they do.