VGarabia.com: We are now living in the HD era, and with each year pass us away, we still continuously seeing video game developers who are trying to push the boundaries with new engines, special tricks and visual effects in an attempt to impress us (gamers) and to bring non gamers to game.
Great graphics doesn't always make a great game, but if a certain game does have good gameplay, but bad graphics, it's undoubtedly will lessen the experience as a whole.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Alone in the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been hit with layoffs a month after its release, as per the latest information.
That genuinely, genuinely sucks. The reboot has clear flaws, but it really felt like a solid first step for this team to receive *greater* investment.
Shenmue: Reclaiming the Path is a fan game using Dreamcast-era visuals, and tells a new story within the Shenmue saga taking place in both Hong Kong and Guilin. Its expected to release on September 16th.
Something about recreating old school graphics in an era of HD high poly photo realism just hits a spot. I'm not nostalgic cause I mostly played GameCube and GB/A, but it's a visual style that gets over looked even by indies.
Definitely a fan project. Terrible hand animations. Some characters have very bad body proportions. Some look like little kids in adult bodies. Some have short arms, small head, big hips and so on.
I voted Heavy Rain it looks so much more than a game.
I disagree with Lost Planet I played the demo and wasn't blown away.
Looking forward to every game on their except prolly Alan Wake, seems too much like Alone in the Dark. Voted for God Of War 3 not really because i think itll be the best looking (it will be one of the best this gen though) but i think itll have amazing graphics and an even better art style (not to mention AAA gameplay).
I bet on GOW3 and Heavy Rain to push boundaries like UC2 did, which is not only in graphics, but amount of things on screen (implies for GOW3) and just the detailing of environment and gameplay. Crysis 2 also will be a good bet and I look forward to see how the console versions pan out (Crysis 2 on PC already can be tagged as the best looking game without even seeing any gameplay... 1st one still hasn't been dethroned).
I am sure even TLG will be great looking, but I have a gut feeling it will be pushed to 2011. Even Assassin's Creed 2 looks great for an open world game and could easily be the best looking game in that category. On the 360, I feel Alan Wake looks great, even better than SC:C, but Ubisoft said they delayed SC to polish, so don't now how it's gonna be. Either ways, awesome looking games are coming out next year.
And no list of best looking games is complete without GT5...
GT > Real
Expct for crysis none of them upcomers hold a candle next to Uncharted 2. Final Fantasy the gfx lay in the videos. simple as that never liked them games. Mass effect static worlds you cant even jump in. Splintercell xboxes last great hope. Bah