Hoping to see Thief at 60 FPS? Sorry. How about 1080p? Think again.
While speaking with Videogamer.com , Eidos Montreal producer Stephane Roy said that the game will not run at 60fps. It will run at 30fps, and include a lot of physics-based effects.
“For a shooter it’s a no-brainer. The higher the frame rate is, the better it is.”…”On my side, the type of game I’m going to work on… I don’t want to put extra pressure on the team just because we can do it if it’s not a necessity. If the players see nothing different, maybe I would prefer to have better physics and stuff like that and not this 60 frames per second frame rate.”
With every new generation of hardware comes a learning curve regarding system capability. Kudos to Eidos Montreal for taking the time to get things right instead of ensuring the game runs at 60fps.