If you’re one of the millions of people out there who have found themselves gingerly stroking their new iPad 2’s lately waiting for some more games to truly unleash the beast on, today is your lucky day. The guys from Trendy Entertainment dropped us a note and let us know that Dungeon Defenders: First Wave now fully takes advantage of everything the iPad 2 has to offer. All you’ve got to do is download the latest version of Dungeon Defenders and turn the somewhat confusingly named “video upscale percentage" slider all the way up.
Doing so makes Dungeon Defenders look and play like this:
It might be a little hard to see in the video, but the difference is insane. Performance on the original iPad was always lackluster (to put it kindly) and it’s crazy to see what a difference the iPad 2 hardware makes. Unfortunately, all of our original criticisms of the game’s UI still stands, and even though it performs substantially better, it’s still incredibly clunky to play due to the incredibly complicated on-screen interface.
Regardless, the game is on sale for a buck for the next few days so if you’re looking for something to try on your iPad 2 or have just been looking to check out Dungeon Defenders, now is as good of a time as any.