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Star Wars Outlaws pushes the latest PC technologies hard - and the results are stunning

Digital Foundry reviews the ultra high-end PC experience in Star Wars Outlaws.

The key technological foundations remain: RT global illumination for diffuse lighting and reflections, volumetric fog, clouds and sky, and extreme quality detail and texture work. Star Wars Outlaws has a constant blur and lens barrel distortion around the screen edges - this, coupled with film grain and chromatic aberration, leads to a distinctly softer image than that seen in Avatar. Watch on YouTube And lastly there are issues with those RT reflections - they are fine enough in the game, but similar to Avatar, they still do not use ultra high quality objects and materials found in the primary world.

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