A new Xbox 360 build of Xbox Game Studios and Crytek’s 2013 action-adventure game, Ryse: Son of Rome, has leaked online.
Ryse: Son of Rome was originally intended to be an Xbox 360 title that used the Kinect. However, developer Crytek ultimately axed Kinect support along with the Xbox 360 version and instead opted to release the game for Xbox One. Well over a decade later, a July, 2012, build of the canceled Xbox 360 version (via RandomlyRandom67 on ResetEra) has surfaced online, revealing several interesting performance metrics.
Ryse: Son of Rome Xbox 360 Build Screenshots Performance
Screenshots taken from the leaked build of Ryse: Son of Rome feature CryEngine’s internal performance overlay, exposing detailed rendering statistics from the cancelled Xbox 360 version. The metrics reveal how far Crytek was pushing the aging Xbox 360 hardware.
One combat arena scene shows a frame rate of only 8.6 fps while rendering 6 million polygons and approximately 1,500 draw calls. Another interior scene performs better at 17.2 fps, while displaying around 2 million polygons and over 2,000 draw calls. Both figures are exceptionally high for a 7th-generation console title. A third scene from the same interior section shows the frame rate dipping as low as 2 fps.
The debug overlay also highlights the heavy cost of CryEngine’s advanced visual features. Dynamic shadows appear to consume a significant portion of the rendering budget, while particle effects, fog systems, and environmental effects place additional strain on the hardware. In the combat arena scene, particle buffers are fully exhausted, indicating that the engine was operating at or beyond its intended limits. The game’s dense geometry, large numbers of on-screen characters, advanced lighting, and cinematic presentation are all designed based on the Xbox One’s performance profile.
Ryse: Son of Rome was released on November 22, 2013, for the Xbox One. It was followed by a Windows PC release nearly a year later on October 10, 2014.
