Gaming on the Nexus 5. Quite frankly
it is glorious, it really is fantastic.
This is one of the fastest smoothest devices for gaming
I have ever used, especially on a mobile platform.
In all honesty the frame rate that we're now getting
on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 means that you're getting 60 frames a second
in nearly all of the games that we really really care about
to the point where actually
some of these games are are up there with PS Vita. You know, I've been playing Killzone
Mercenaries
on PS Vita and you know, it's pretty close now.
A lot of it comes down to those high frame rates because you can
where necessary turn all your graphics up if the game provides it and still see no frame
rate drop out.
When you've got games like this one as well, I mean it's just
fantastic, it's one of the best experiences I've
ever had on a mobile device and it really is
thanks to that Snapdragon 600 processor.
And obviously a good chunk of this is also coming from the increased graphical effects
that were introduced
in Android 4.3. So this is Asphalt 8
on the Nexus 5. It's obviously one of the best games
currently on any mobile platform really, and
the Nexus 5 really shows off
what this game is capable of or vice versa depending on which way you want to look at it.
But certainly when we've been playing this game on the Nexus 5 no slowdowns no
glitching
particularly, just a very nice smooth experience
that is well worth getting. It's obviously a very difficult thing to convey
quite how nice this game looks, oops, apart from when I do that!
Because you're obviously seeing this on a second display as it were. It's been recorded
once
and it is obviously quite a blurry game with all of that motion blur going on
but overall it just runs beautifully on the Nexus 5.
There is nothing here I would kind of be grumbling about whatsoever.
You know Gameloft do get an awful lot of flak
but this particular series of games from them has always been fantastic and it
always pushes the devices to their absolute limit and I think with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
chip in here
and the Andreno 330 then, you know,
it's kind of found the sweet spot as far as I'm concerned.
The frame rates are absolutely spot-on and very very stable and
the gameplay just works beautifully on this device. It really is, it's
an absolute cracker. Combat 4
another title that we all really care about when it comes to mobile gaming
a first-person shooter and a great way to really show off
the frame rate and general smoothness of the Nexus 5.
At no point where I've been playing this game have
I seen any slowdown. What I have seen is a vastly improved frame rate
over previous devices, specifically over the
Galaxy S4, the game just flies on here
Nexus 4 felt at times
slightly janky. It would stall out in
strange places and the frame rate didn't feel like it was consistent.
Here we have a very very consistent frame rate
and it just feels beautifully smooth to the point where
in my opinion it's now actually playable where previously it
wasn't always the most playable of games due to the frame rate dips etcetera.
Does feel like the Snapdragon
processor is really doing a great job here.
That was a very long range knife kill.
Good old Gameloft bug there
that's when they work in our favour but anyway.
But as you can see, Modern Combat no problems here. It
looks fantastic. This is probably next to the Galaxy
Note 3 the best way to play
this particular game, certainly if you're looking for really high frame rates anyway.
Absolutely glorious. Love it!
Die, nondescript bad guy. Die! This is Riptide GP2. This is obviously another really high
performance game that makes incredible use of
water effects and so on and so it's one of those titles
that is great for showing off what your device can do.
Now obviously, because it's a gyroscope game you're going to have to excuse me
while it tilts around the screen a little bit but the frame rate not
always as consistent as it could be on here but a lot of it I put down to
being game developer issues more than anything else.
It is very difficult to simulate water and speed like this on a mobile device
and so occasionally you will see it just dip out a little bit,
I shouldn't maybe be breaking into these corners but never mind.
It's not a deal breaker
by any stretch of the imagination because 99.99% of the time
the game is absolutely spot-on but there is just the occasional
dip in the frame rate. Seems to be mostly when you're going round
kind of bends and that's to be expected as the fill rate kind of
goes up quite considerably at that point. But overall
it's a beautiful looking game and it always has been and on the Nexus 5
works absolutely fine, no major problems, nice and good to look. Like I say, just
the occasional bit
of what you can perceive as slowdown
just the frames dropping a little tiny bit but nothing major
no major problems here atall.