Hogwarts Legacy is among the best-looking games released this year on PC and console, featuring an incredible recreation of Hogwarts and its surroundings. The vanilla version of the game, however, cannot compare to a modded version which features tons of visual improvements, as seen in a new video shared online today.
The new video, which has been put together by Digital Dreams, showcases the game running on an RTX 4090 GPU with all ray tracing features and a few mods, including the Ultra Plus Visuals mod, which enables ray traced global illumination and cut-scene quality for regular gameplay. Needless to say, the improved visuals go a long way to make the open-world game developed by Avalanche Software looks positively stunning.
While the visuals are an important part of the Hogwarts Legacy experience, the game is well worth experiencing even on previous generation consoles, as it is one of the games based on the Wizarding World ever made, despite a not particularly exciting open-world design, as highlighted by Chris in his review.
So, long story short, I like Hogwarts Legacy and its story, but there are certainly some issues if you don't turn your brain off. While I'm rounding up, I should also say that once the game launched and I downloaded the update, the performance seemed to plummet on occasion. While I already saw a little slowdown when using Lumos, I started to see it even more, sometimes even when not using the spell. Performance-wise, I'm still not overly down on it, but there is room for improvement.
Hogwarts Legacy is now available on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One worldwide. The game will launch on Nintendo Switch this November, a few months after the previously scheduled July launch.
About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.
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