Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future for Dreamcast and PS2 - Screenshot comparison

Ecco the Dolphin was released for the Sega Dreamcast in September 2000, while the PS2 port was released over a year and a half later, in March 2002. I have not played the PS2 game, but no report has been made of any significant difference between the two versions, including any improvement of the framerate dips the original game experienced. As such, Ecco exemplifies some of the best texture mapping on any console, and especially that of the PS2, in addition to a wide variety of high detail areas both under and above water.

It is also worth noting that the IGN review for the Dreamcast version knocks off serious points for the framerate dipping into the 15FPS range when above water, or in certain more complex underwater scenes. However, when IGN had the same reviewer do the PS2 version, he failed to mention the framerate at all for the game on newer hardware, which had over a year of extra development time. Ecco the Dolphin also exemplifies the subtle differences between the Dreamcast and PS2 hardware, and that neither system had an absolute edge in technical prowess, despite Sony and the media's claims to the contrary.

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