LEGO Horizon Adventures drops the ball when it comes to next-gen tech

It’s been confirmed that LEGO Horizon Adventures fails to take full advantage of Sony’s own PlayStation 5 Pro console at launch.

LEGO Horizon Adventures has finally been released today, with the brick-based take on Sony’s popular Horizon Zero Dawn now available on PlayStation 5, PC and Nintendo Switch. The title was created in collaboration between the LEGO Group, Sony, Guerrilla Games and Studio Gobo, and comes in both digital and physical versions.

While LEGO Horizon Adventures has been getting decidedly mixed reviews across the board, the fact that the game exists on a competitor’s console at all has surprised more than a few players. However, it’s Sony’s own platform that seem to have taken a hit when it comes to the game’s performance.

Eurogamer is reporting that LEGO Horizon Adventures is missing support for PlayStation 5 Pro at launch, with the next-gen console having been released worldwide on November 7. The title lacks the PS5 Pro Enhanced label on the official PlayStation Store and instead offers players a choice of two different graphics modes.

Performance mode provides a higher frame rate but lower quality graphics, while Fidelity mode gives a lower frame rate but greater texture resolution and detail. The report goes on to state that Guerrilla Games and Studio Gobo may well release a patch for the base PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro versions of LEGO Horizon Adventures at a later date, although that’s yet to be confirmed.

At the PlayStation 5 Pro’s launch, Sony revealed that several existing titles (such as Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered) would be patched up to the PS5 Pro Enhanced level, taking advantage of the console’s advanced ray tracing and 45% faster rendering.

Eurogamer’s own two-star review of LEGO Horizon Adventures comments that, “It’s a decidedly joyless kind of game, the sort that’s better to look at than actually play with, and one that does little to bridge the gap between its two main subjects.”

“I still don’t know why it exists or who it’s for,” continues the review, “and there’s little evidence to suggest that Guerrilla or Gobo know the answer either.”

LEGO Horizon Adventures is now available to purchase on PlayStation 5, PC and Nintendo Switch.

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