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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons remake - UE5 Nanite and Lumen come at a heavy cost


Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons has been remade for PS5, Series X and Series S - but is the new version any good? Tom Morg…

The goal is to navigate an eerie, beautiful fantasy world - full of trolls, wolves and sentient trees - in a quest to find a cure for their dying father. Most prominent is the reworked geometry, with Nanite deployed to help create more complex meshes that can be seen in the intricate rock formations lining the coast, the wooden planks, and the cobblestone floors of the town below. Here we see added grass and foliage detail fill out the space, greatly upgraded water shaders and more advanced post-effects like depth of field, film grain and light shafts.

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