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Long was its coming foretold, and now it has arrived - Red Dead Redemption is finally available on Xbox One thanks to backwards compatibility. But was the wait worth it? That's the question the noted techno-wizards over at Digital Foundry set out to answer, and after running the Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions of the game side by side, they've given us an answer:

Red Dead Redemption not only runs well on Xbox One, without any major technical issues, but does so at a noticeably more stable framerate.

I admit, when I first watched the footage, I thought that draw distance had improved as well, but the minor differences you see can be attributed to the game's dynamic weather and time of day systems. Pop-in, texture resolution, and lighting are all the same. Short of inventing a time machine and travelling to the year 2010, it's the closest you'll get to the way you felt playing the game for the first time on Xbox 360.

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