Final Fantasy XIII doesn't render at 1080p

Despite rumours and the sharpness of the visuals in the Final Fantasy XIII demo, the game will not run at full-HD.

The Final Fantasy XIII demo included with the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete Blu-ray does not run at a 1080p resolution.

A Final Fantasy XIII fan site, FF-XIII.net, reported that Final Fantasy XIII runs at 1080p, or full-HD, despite the game actually rendering in 720p. This resolution is still considered high-definition and is the resolution most HDTV's support.

The fansite still appeared to understand that the game may not render its graphics at 1080p, though their point was not entirely clear. So to clear things up, we can confirm that the Final Fantasy XIII demo runs at 720p with 2xMSAA.

This resolution and its included anti-aliasing, which removes "jaggies" by adding an intermediary shade between polygon edge steps, still results in a very clean image. The quality of the demo's in-game graphics truly show off how great an engine Square Enix has created for the PlayStation 3 game.

Nonetheless, Final Fantasy XIII will indeed support 1080p CGI cutscenes, just like the Blu-ray standard - a mixed resolution that many games will begin to take up on the PS3. This means that the cutscenes, which cannot be rendered in real-time, will take up the majority of the Blu-ray disc space, opening questions of how many DVD's the Xbox 360 game will have to utilise.

You can find out more about Final Fantasy XIII by visiting its Gamezine game page.