2022 brought some big technical hits and some big technical messes on PC. Here's the best and worst PC releases we saw this year from a technical perspective.
This story is part of Jacob Roach's ReSpec series, covering the world of PC gaming and hardware. 2022 was a big year for PC game releases, for better and worse. We saw remarkable achievements in fidelity in titles like Dying Light 2, but also fundamentally broken PC ports like Gotham Knights. As 2022 closes out, I wanted to take a look back at the best and worst PC games we saw in the past year.
I’m particularly excited about what it means for RTX Remix in the future. Modders have already put out versions of Max Payne, Half-Life, and SWAT 4 revitalized through RTX Remix, and they all look incredible. I’ll be taking a closer look at these games in the future. Best: Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection is a prime example of how to do a PC port right. Rock-solid performance, a wide breadth of graphics options, and pre-compiled shaders make it a smooth experience on basically any rig — and a long-overdue debut for Nathan Drake on PC.
Worst: Warhammer 40,000 Darktide I’ll admit, Warhammer 40,000 Darktide is one of my personal favorite games of 2022, but that’s despite its truckload of technical issues. A lengthy and bug-filled beta period led to an even more broken release at launch, which featured constant network disconnects, game-breaking crashes due to ray tracing, and myriad visual errors.
Ray tracing looks fantastic in Marvel’s Spider-Man, and it allows you to push reflection and shadows beyond what’s available on the PlayStation 5. Miles Morales is particularly impressive with DLSS 3, even if the AI-generated frames don’t always look perfect.
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