Much of this feature-set is shared across all platforms. The PS4 and Xbox One releases are principally like-for-like in every test, though looking closer, we notice one major difference. On Xbox One, per-object and full-screen motion are entirely missing, while the final PC and PS4 final builds retain it. This adds a filmic, fluid quality to motion that replicates the look of a live broadcast - easy to miss during regular gameplay but the difference is hugely evident during replays and cut-scenes.
In a curious twist, the Xbox One's FIFA 15 demo features the effect - and at no apparent performance penalty. What's just as strange is that this Liverpool versus Manchester City demo actually loads on first booting the Xbox One retail disc with the effect intact, but once the match is played out, motion blur is switched off for the main game (a bug perhaps?). In all, this is the only major technical division between the three versions - with the PC release retaining the effect.
Alongside this, a demanding bokeh depth-of-field effect is added to all versions, where previously we had a simpler Gaussian blur across intruding foreground objects. And while both consoles run at bona-fide 1080p, aliasing creeps in as a result of the effect. From our pixel counts, it appears the filter uses a lowered 960x640 buffer, causing objects walking in front to look rougher at certain angles - typically in scenarios with a close-up of a player in front of the stands. It's a trick in need of some refinement, but on balance it adds to the look of FIFA 15's cut-scene segments.
The PC version's performance levels also match the PS4 and Xbox One releases, for better and worse. All three run at a matching, perfectly v-synced 60fps when using the popular, default 'top-down' camera view. However, FIFA 15 carries on the series' tradition of automatically capping to 30fps for the match preambles, replays, set-pieces and anything using the Pro camera mode.
Meanwhile, both the PS4 and Xbox One handle in-game playback perfectly; if it's in default view, the 60fps line is held to a tee. However, the Xbox One does occasionally suffer from drops to 25fps during match build-ups locked at half rate, noticed when panning past each team's line-up. It's unusual - and doesn't affect gameplay - but by comparison the PS4 never misses a beat here, whether it's running at a 30 or 60fps cap.
