Expert\u00a0framerate and performance assessors, Digital Foundry, have been putting games to the test for quite some time, but never have they seen such a disastrous scorecard as that provided by\u00a0Lichdom: Battlemage.<\/p>\n
Lichdom is a console port of a two-year-old PC game that doesn’t seem to have made the jump to Xbox One and PS4 very successfully, or at all for that matter. Here’s what Digital Foundry<\/a> had to say:<\/p>\n “There’s no beating around the bush here – Lichdom is a game that rarely manages to deliver a frame-rate north of twenty frames per second.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In fact, the PlayStation 4 clocks up an average frame-rate of just 15fps across the run of play, with dips as low as 10fps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On top of that, frame-time latencies can be astonishingly high with some remarkable stutter. We’ve run the rule over a multitude of titles since we started frame-rate testing console games back in 2008 – and we’re pretty sure we’ve never seen anything quite as bad as this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The funny thing is that Lichdom<\/em> is actually a pretty decent game, with the original PC version pulling in some good reviews and creating a positive legacy for itself thanks to its strong story, graphics, voice acting, and customisation system.<\/p>\n Check out the Digital Foundry video below:<\/p>\n