Evolution of Graphics in Video Games- 1991-2011

GR - "Graphics have come a long way since the early days of gaming. Here we take a trip down memory lane to see how graphics have evolved over the past 20 years."

[user9422077]

It's come a long way.

[NukaCola]

Allow me to present Oddworld. A game that came out in 1997 and is still to this day one of the most impressive game I have ever seen visually, among other things. This was on PS One and I still to this day, can't find a game that can compete with it to me. I am excited too because Lorne Lanning is remaking this game, still in 2.5D, but in full HD remade with a brand new engine.
http://imageshack.us/f/196/...
http://ui03.gamefaqs.com/14...
http://www.romulation.net/f...

[piroh]

PS One got plenty of ground-breaking revolutionary graphic games
anyone remember Gran Turismo 1,2? or Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 7, Tekken 3, Spyro 2,3, Driver, AceCombat 3, Silent Hill...
...gold ages

[pcz]

boredom.

nice graphics yes, but boring game

[Ranshak]

Shogun 2 and witcher 2 are the best looking games of 2011 so far.

However from a timeline of 1991 - 2011 the best looking games go like this:

Quake 2 1997
Unreal 1998
Quake 3 1999
Doom 3 2004
Farcy 2004
Half life 2 2004
Crysis 2007
Metro 2033 2010
Shogun 2 2011
Witcher 2 2011

Each of these games has represented the epitome of graphics in their respective times.

[sobekflakmonkey]

@Ranshak

How could you leave out Half-Life the original?
that game was ground breaking when it came out, which begs the question, how come Half-Life 1 & 2 weren't on that list, dont get me wrong the list was interesting but missing quite a bit..

[ProjectVulcan]

Doom 3 is a good pick for 2004, but Far Cry has had more impact visually on games from a technical perspective. Not least of all because after a patch it was one of the first games with proper dev supported HDR and AA.

This also has to count more for me because without said game, Crytek may not have been around to make Crysis how they did which has been and arguably still is the benchmark.

[Ranshak]

@sobek

Half life 2 is on the list. The reason why Half life 1 isnt on the list is because it was using the quake 2 engine, hence while it was a good looking game it didnt really jump the level of graphics.

Half life 2 on the other hand was the end all be all of graphics when it was released since it released with a completely new engine.

[HolyOrangeCows]

You're obviously thinking art direction...

Sheeeeesh; all that advancement in 20 years. I used to say "It CAN'T get better than this" but then it did, many times. I can only imagine the next 20.

[DrVosknocker]

Far Cry takes the Cake for 2004
and Donkey Kong Country 1994

[Zydake]

IDK but I believe they need to stick GoW 3 in there

[MaxXAttaxX]

As a PC fan, I assume you must push PC games in our faces.

Unfortunately, having a PC doesn't automatically give you better graphics.

So I believe there should be a BIG asterisk(*) next to those games saying:
*With up to date hardware.

[mikeslemonade]

Back then I thought Star Fox looked like shit. 3D just didn't look good at all to me back then. And putting LA noire ahead of MGS4, Uncharted 2, and Heavy Rain is just funny. LA Noire looks a tad bit better than GTA4 a 2007 game.

[KROBOS9393939]

do you work for that game's company or something?

[darthv72]

is the artistic creativity and technical abilities of the developers to go beyond the hardware limitations. Take for example the older systems like the Genesis (my personal fav) and SNES etc... Each one built around a set of hardware that (for its time) had limits.

You look at the games released when the systems released and then compare them with the games released at or near its end and you can see there had been many interesting techniques to improve the outcome over that period of time. Its the same hardware from beginning to end, its just that people got smarter with working the limitations into almost limitless potential.

I do think that new hardware and the learning curve associated tends to give the impression that devs can be lazy at first. Letting the hardware do the work instead of applying artistic creativity like you generally see later on. But then again, that comes in time and experience with the hardware.

Have we seen the 360 maxed out or possibly the ps3? Not likely so long as there are developers willing to take a risk on a new technique to get the hardware to reflect something that we didnt think possible.

[JLeVRT]

Imagine what they will be like in about 30 years O_O

[Zydake]

That's what I'm scared of.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

and then I said oh sh!t I hope Kinect isn't the future.

[ATiElite]

Wow that was a cool flash back as I played 99% of those games. Sonic still is a gorgeous game even after all these years especially on an emulator with AA applied.

Boy do i remember upgrading to run Doom 3 day 1 then a year later for Battlefield 2 as that game was just brilliant then a complete PC upgrade for the almighty Crysis which took over a year and a half to finally be able to say "I can Max Crysis out".

those were some very very good times for Graphics and GPU technology advances. Then Metro 2033 comes out and crushes my PC to gravel but I'm back with a vengeance and ready for Battlefield 3 day 1 and Arma 3 as the evolution of graphics continues....yeh!

[awi5951]

Yeah i made a upgrade about that time also. Half life 2 epic fail launch, unreal 2004 was awesome, doom 3 didnt have a flash light on the gun that pissed people off, and the first call of duty was launching soon lol.

[Kleptic]

the first call of duty came out in 2003...before Doom 3 or half life 2...CoD launched along side Max Payne 2 late that year...

[the_best_player]

I play Half Life 2 Online it's great epic fun :D

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Eyeco]

I thought God of War 3 was the best looking game of 2010 the game looked like a movie, the Cronos fight, to call that cinematic would be an undrstatment

[Tony P]

I don't think anything has surpassed Crysis as an overall leap in gaming graphics.

Also, looking at Noire's facial animations, I feel almost regretful that Heavy Rain's aren't as good. A completely narrative focused title like HR could have really benefited from those emotive expressions.

[lil Titan]

how are two people gonna disagree with "It's come a long way."? i swear some people on n4g are retards

[50Terabytespersec]

Where is Sega in all this except for Sonic???
Sega was key in the development of 3d tech can you say?Virtua Fighter and Soul Calibur Dreamcast!
All in all GOD OF WAR3 says it all!!! DAMN!!!!!!
So does GT 5 Prologue 1080p and perhaps Uncharted 2 the Himalaya stage made my Jaw drop!
I hope Sega comes back on top someday!!

[ATiElite]

i don't think this article was really trying to point out the "exact innovators" of graphics but to just show random changes in graphics over time.

I say that cause they completely left out Neo Geo, the Atari era, Shenmue from the Dreamcast, the original Half Life and other games that significantly changed graphics forever.

but to be technical Star Fox SNES (February 1993) came out before Virtual Fighter Arcade (November 1993) with the first console version Virtual Fighter Saturn releasing in 1995.

Atari had an arcade game called I,Robot released back in 1983 that is considered the first 3D polygon game.

One of the earlier Home PC 3D Polygon games was Star Cruiser back in 1988.

[frostypants]

The author didn't know what he was trying to focus on. He shifts back and forth between console graphics (e.g. Starfox) to PC (e.g. Mechwarrior 2). PCs back then were many years ahead of consoles...the PC could have cranked out a game like Starfox in the 1980s. The problem was that PCs were stupidly expensive in those days.

Granted, today the difference between consoles and PCs is a lot more negligible than it was back then. Still, given that this is an article on history, he should probably separate consoles and PCs, at least up through the mid 2000s.

[MicrocutsX2]

Starfox on SNES back in the day looked awesome...then came Starfox 64 and that game blew my mind.

[frostypants]

The main reason Starfox was so great was it was the first console game to feature polygonal graphics. They actually had to put a special chip in the cartridge to pull it off. But you can mark Starfox as the point at which the divide between consoles and PCs first began to shrink.

[Kleptic]

at the time of Starfox on the SNES, and Virtua Racing on the Genesis (which was Sega's marketing match)...they were the first games to use polygonal rendering almost entirely...PC's were capable of it, but gaming in general simply wasn't that popular yet...

Even Doom and Doom II on PC...which were easily considered the 'best' looking games at the time...were not true 3D, didn't use polygons, and were released after both of these console games...it wasn't until Quake hit in 1996 iirc that polygonal PC gaming started to become standard...and it wasn't until the PS1 showed up (which screamed at polygonal rendering when compared to the Saturn) that consoles started to regularly use the tech...

[crystalnova2004]

That escalated quickly

[CaptainMarvelQ8]

yeah,especially nearing 2000

[halocursed]

I'd replace MGS 4 with GTA 4, I think the open world environment and the characters in-game were animated better.

[MaximusPrime]

hmmm.

seems MGS4 got better graphic.

[ZBlacktt]

I just faceplam'd.

[f789790]

Troll guys

[DatNJDom81]

Look at his name then u know why he's saying dumb stuff like that.

[nskrishna2]

LOL!

Not..-__-

[likerussia]

I still think the character models in MGS4 look more realistic than the latest video games on the market. All the other games truly excel in backgrounds over character models.

[Kleptic]

I just recently played MGS4 again in parts...and I totally agree...his suit and the weapons simply look unmatched...the suit is so similar to Crysis 2's nano-suit, yet still looks significantly more detailed...I couldn't believe how clear the serial numbers and stuff are on snake's gadgets too...

[gameseveryday]

Cant believe they left out Gears of War 2?

[mandf]

It's not that they intentionally left it out. Killzone 2 came out before it and geow2 didn't surpass it. Then came uncharted 2 which made geow2 obsolete in the discussion of graphic discussion on consoles.

[gameseveryday]

Gears of War 2: 2008
Kz: 2009

:D

[mandf]

My bad lost track of time. Geow2 looks good but it didn't surpass Uncharted. Geow3 wasn't leaps and bounds better than Geow1 or Resident Evil5 at the time of release.

By the way I didn't disagree with you.I'm a few hundred games past plyting Geow2 and lost track of time.

[ps3bestever]

METAL GEAR SOLID 4 released in 2008 dude

[XabiDaChosenOne]

Uncharted 1 looks better than gears of war 1 and 2

[stealth500k]

graphics go up

story and gameplay and diversity and originality go down

[e-p-ayeaH]

In most cases that´s true and the same goes to movies and music.

[MaximusPrime]

not true for PS3's case

[stealth500k]

thats where its almost most true.

[BakedGoods]

Guess you haven't played any PS3 games.

[zootang]

Imagine never playing MGS4 or Uncharted or God of War 3 or Heavy Rain or Gran Turismo 5? Yikes!

[kindi_boy]

So true, Heavy Rain story for example. It was filled with holes.

[LightofDarkness]

Uhh this is rather poorly researched. Some of these examples are kind of random. Moreover, COD4 didn't use idTech 4. It uses IW engine, which had it's roots in the Quake 3 engine. Polygonal game engines didn't really get any notice until Quake, which featured texture mapping and THAT'S the game that got everybody on-board for 3D engines.

[SuperK]

Just makes you wonder what it might be like 20 years from now

[Chuk5]

I'm surprised they left gears 1 out.

[LightofDarkness]

I know it was really the first game this gen to tout the sort of graphics we've come to expect. It raised the bar considerably upon it's release, despite being bested within a few months. UE3 was one of the landmarks this guy seems to have missed.

[teedogg80]

Yeah, Gears 1 was the first graphically impressive game this gen. I remember how awesome it was playing it for the first time.

[tdrules]

"Crysis was, and still remains a step above most games in terms of graphics. It set a new standard to which many other games aspire to visually."

indeed, although it doesn't have LA Noire facial animation, to my knowledge

[CynicalVision]

God only knows what games will look like in another 20 years time.

[techrave]

I believe some engineers at Microsoft and Sony working on the next generation consoles might be aware how the next generation is going to shape up.

[teedogg80]

I often think of that myself. It will be phenomenal and I hope that I will live to see it.

[e-p-ayeaH]

A lazy made article.

[aGameDeveloper]

For example:

"Oblivion’s use of the GameBryo engine may look dated today, but its immersive environments look like they haven’t aged a day."

So, which is it - dated or ageless?

[admiralthrawn87]

horribly horribly dated

[Big_Dom]

Agreed. The article only touches on the aesthetic side of things, which for the most part is sloppy work. It neglects technical advances in how games are designed and built. GTA's RAGE engine, for example. Easily one of the most impressive engines ever to come out of the industry, and without it, amazing titles like Red Dead Redemption would never have been possible looking the way it does.

[HeavenlySnipes]

why Heavy Rain and LA Noire are ahead of Uncharted 2, Crysis. And why God of War 3 isn't there

[CobraKai]

I don't understand the exclusion of God of War 3, but it's not what looks better, it's the year.

[Siesser]

They're in chronological order - it's not a ranking system...

[kindi_boy]

It's not it has LA Noire over The Witcher 2.

[Orionsangel]

WOW! No mention of HALF-LIFE 2??? That was the next big leap after Doom 3.

[Eamon]

Agreed, HL2 till this date remains as one of the prettiest games ever.

[Orionsangel]

Yep and it took graphics in a new direction, but this dumb ignorant list didn't include it.

[admiralthrawn87]

God of War3 and Gears of War should've been on there somewhere. Shenmue was unfortunately looked over. and for 2011...The Witcher 2 seems much better looking than L.A. Noire

[CoD511]

No FarCry?

[admiralthrawn87]

guys not every awesome looking game could make it on a list like this ok? 1 a year

[CobraKai]

The games were too inconsistent. Almost random and lacking games that were the first of it's kind. Where was Virtua Racing? Prolly the first game to really show what polygons were capable of.

[LightofDarkness]

IMO, It should've gone like this:

'91: Sonic (blast processing was a big deal)
'92: Wolfenstein 3D/Virtua Racing
'93: Doom/Starfox
'94: Daytona USA
'95: Tekken(? No big advances really)
'96: Quake (obviously)
'97: Quake 2
'98: Unreal/Half-Life
'99: Quake III/UT '99
'00: Thief 2 (lighting)/Total War(amount of stuff on screen)
'01: Halo (vast levels, physics)/FFX(cinematic presentation)
'02: Jet-Set Radio Future/Windwaker (Cel-shading), Morrowind (scale), UT2003 (UE 2.0, Vertex shading)
'03: Max Payne 2 (havok physics)
'04: Doom 3 (lighting, normal mapping) Half-Life 2 (physics oriented gameplay)
'05: F.E.A.R (particles, soft shadows), Shadows of the Colossus (scale, art-design)
'06: Oblivion(scale, facial animation), Gears(UE3.0)
'07: Crysis (duh :P), Uncharted
'08: Hard to say, no major advancement as far as graphics are concerned
'09: Killzone 2/Uncharted 2 (post-processing)
'10: Bad Company 2/Metro 2033 (DX11)
'11: L.A. Noire (advanced facial animation)

My reasoning is that the games should've been chosen for being a landmark in the progression of graphics in games. That is why The Witcher 2 isn't on my list, as while it's the best looking game this year so far, it's not doing anything groundbreaking in the looks department, despite the fact that it shows the PC clearly pulling away from consoles graphically.

[CobraKai]

Nice including the cel-shaded games. I remember that actually being overused for a while.

[Voxelman]

Far Cry 2 slots into 08 nicely with it's scale and fire tech

[zackacloud]

Looool

Heavy rain then la noir looooool

[ZBlacktt]

1991? I have my Intellivision system still from 1982. Still got my NES from 1986.... just saying. We've come a very long way, lol.

[GoldPS3]

I was born in the 80's so I basically played just about every major console to come out. Back in the day people played games for fun even if a game was bad it was still fun but now people complain about every little thing they see. Most of the 2000's born kids haven't played anything til they start playing some of the older games.

[BlmThug]

Far Cry 2 Should Be There

[JohnnyAkiba]

People still forget Shenmue in 1999.

[CaulkSlap]

They didn't exactly pick the best looking game of each era. Should have compiled the top 5 from different genres of each year.

[christoph203]

Heavy rain in my opinion is the best graphical game in terms of pure detail in the eye's, faces environments. La noire has better facial anaimation but the graphics and level od detail are way behind heavy rains

[ClimateKaren]

I can't say for certain since I haven't played L.A. Noire yet, but based on video I've seen I'd have to agree with you. Not that I think Heavy Rain is the best looking game ever, but compared to LAN it seems to look better overall with the exception of (specifically) facial animation. The faces don't seem to have the level of detail Heavy Rain does though.

[gumgum99]

An interesting look at graphics in gaming from Sonic til present. Sonic Generations does a lot of interesting things from a graphical perspective as well, with real time global illumination and lighting to give those old levels some new life.

Gaming has come a long way visually. You no longer have to use imagination to imagine what certain things represent in a game. Let's hope the surreal environments continue in platformers, and don;t get swept away by too much realism.

Oh, and what about Ratchet and Clank? Its environments on PS3 are almost like a living Pixar movie. ^_^

[Rahim92]

Where is God of War 3 ?

[Zydake]

I wrote that and look at my disagrees LOL

[Convas]

God of War3 SHOULD have beat out Heavy Rain for 2010. I mean, come on. Did you SEE that game?!

[yamzilla]

with gaming finally arriving at The Witcher 2, the best looking game ever made on the surface of the planet!!

Followed closely by;

Metro2033 DX11-pc
Crysis 1 w/realism mods-PC
Crysis 2-pc
Arma 2-pc
x3 terran-pc
Stalker CoP dx11-pc
(we are still nowhere near a console game yet....)
Stalker Clear Sky dx10.1-pc
Dirt 2 DX11-pc
Alien Vs. Predator DX11-pc
BFBC2 DX11-pc
Battleforge DX11-pc
(still no god of war 3, killzone 3, uncharted 3)
Total War Shogun 2 DX11-pc
Anno 1404 dx10-pc
Far Cry 2 DX10-pc
Shattered Horizon DX10-pc
World in Conflic DX10-pc
Cryostasis DX10-pc
Gears of war-pc
assasians creed 1,2,brotherhood-pc

this will go on for every major AAA multiplat released for the last 3 years until finally, maybe......

....now maybe
god of war 3-ps3
castlevania LoS-multi
uncharted 2-ps3
killzone 2-ps3
killzone 3-ps3 (yeas it looks way worse than 2, has a crappier form of anti aliasing.

and seriously.....la noire looks like ASS, it looks like the sims 2 with better lipsync

that game looks like dick, why is it on there

Metal Gear 4 looks like poo, fun game, graphics are ass, why is it next to crysis

The list i have up there is the definitive list of all best looking games available...

[TVippy]

Agree with your list, but why Witcher, LOL? You're playing it right now, that's why.

[BeastlyRig]

Why not?

- http://www.youtube.com/watc...
- http://www.youtube.com/watc...

is it not the best looking rpg ever created?

[kindi_boy]

@BeastlyRig
because it's not on a console so it shouldn't count. lol... sorry this is N4G dude... People think kinda differently here.

[TVippy]

Yes, best looking RPG maybe, but not "game".

[gillri]

@yamzilla

oh dear bias much?

PC only gamers cant take the fact alot of console games looks better on far less advanced hardware

I had Metro 2003 on my PC and God Of War 3 looked better last year, hence why it won most of the best graphics awards

Shenmue came out in 1999, and looked better than any PC game I had at the time, same with Halo (closest was medal of honour AA?), Gears Of War,
Uncharted 2 was the best looking game of 2009

Yes PC by and large are at the cutting edge of technology but consoles in recent time have shown how good there games can look

Uncharted 2 is the closest gaming has come to a PIXAR film, such is the quality of the animation and production values

tech doesnt determine either of tse

[death2smoochie]

If you think GOD3 looked better than Metro 2033 on the PC then I need to buy you new glasses.

"Uncharted 2 is the closest gaming has come to a PIXAR film, such is the quality of the animation and production values"

Obviously you missed the BF3 12 min PRE ALPHA TRAILER.
It puts Uncharted 2/3 to shame...and it uses all real time effects,lighting, with almost full procedural environmental destruction on top of that also. How many console games can say this and LOOK like BF3...which is still in Alpha...
None.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Btw. Crysis 1 and Crysis Warhead came out before Uncharted 2 and those games STILL looked better.
Miles better.

[yamzilla]

@gillri

ummmm no....not really at all, i own
god of war 3 and titan quest looks better than it...

god of war 3 is about on par with say something like the witcher 1, hellgate london looks better than god of war 3,

god of war 3 also suffers from sub hd(i call anything below 1080p sub-hd), crappy fixed camera and static backrounds, its a beautiful game, for sure but some parts like;

http://web2.wegame.com/view... (clayfighter anyone)

http://web2.wegame.com/view... (that looks about as good as the "hd" remake of god of war 2)

You know when god of war 3 will look really, really awesome, when i play it in 1600p on my 30" monitor on an emulator in 3 years along with all your other ps3 exclusives, just like i am doing now with ps2 games and have been for 2 years....

look like poop

[TVippy]

The author is pretty ignorant, as always.

[BeastlyRig]

The Witcher 2, BF3 & Arma3 > all!

[Redempteur]

loool
"Ultima IX was rather ahead of its time, boasting high resolution graphics and requiring a Voodoo 3 graphics card to run properly."

Not even a voodoo 3 card could run this game properly at the time of it's release it was THAT unoptimisez after years of struggle to get it out ...

[earbus]

I dig the graphics in battlestations pacific when you can see all the guys running around on the ships that game blows my mind this gen for gameplay looks and childhood model nostalgia.

[oddman76]

1994 - Magic Carpet (no one else mentioned it I was addicted to this)

[oddman76]

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[zero_cool]

The gran turismo series set new standards in the racing genre on many levels which includes graphics which it rightfully deserves honorable mention on that list without a doubt.

[zero_cool]

So does the mortal kombat series after all it brought realistic digitized characters so it also deserves honorable mention on that list without a doubt.

[zero_cool]

The virtua fighter series was a important milestone in 3d graphics that also deserves honorable mention most definitely.

[Atlas-1983]

Nice TV http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[fr00ty-wizenhymer]

Maybe I'm just weird, but I prefer older graphics. I hate modern graphics.

[Killzone3___]

no your not but you don't know what you talking about , we all loved the old games and had alot more fun then the new graphics games , if you play sonic right now you won't like it or any old games , you even gonna say the graphics when you played it the first time was better , the time when you played the old games you didn't see or play alots of games , you saw something special , something new , but now even if you played a game that have something new you won't have fun as much as befor because you played and saw alots of games... that's why im bored of games but i don't have anything to do that's why i countinue , but i always try to forget that to have more fun...

[fr00ty-wizenhymer]

Umm actually I do know what I'm talking about. I play my N64 and Genesis more than my Xbox or PS3. Also I play tons of game from the 90s on my PC, and any newer PC games I always lower the graphical settings to the lowest. It just feels right.

[the_kutaragi_baka]

omg, no Killzone 2 in this list is a epic fail PERIOD!

[Mini Mario]

Great graphics doesn't mean the games have gotten any better.

Tetris is still as addictive as ever and they are just blocks falling.

[Killzone3___]

there is too many games to put in a list , you can't say that these games are the only games that made a big step to a new level , alots of games made it to make something special , it's not good puting only 21 games , at least put 500 games... even if you put 1000 games you won't put all the games... look at the comnments here , each put a game , so the list you put fail but the idea of the list reached :)

[gillri]

@Ranshak

MIssed out Shenmue in 2000, Halo in 2002, Gears of War in 2006, Uncharted 2 in 2009 etc etc

biased PC fanboy alert!!

[hennessey86]

had some of the best visuals of last gen and holds its own against some games this gen

[The_KELRaTH]

I find the article flawed as it uses games as it's reference rather than using the graphics hardware followed by the effect on games.

For instance the big graphics switch for PC's came from a 3DFX card and as the graphics card advanced so often did the "same" game ie.
http://www.6502c.com/UT1-op...

1991 seems an odd starting point too as there was some fantastic graphical 2D/3D game visuals 10 years earlier.

[Rageanitus]

Doom>quake1>quake2 were revolutionary leaps in terms of graphics. Then came Doom 3 but that was short lived....

ID was quite awesome back in the days and drove the industry... where are they now?

[X-Zone]

Anyone mentioning PC games needs to go back to Gamterailers > PC section. We are talking about proper Video Games here, on consoles.

[GodKing1337]

eh, just a little

[Japam]

what about 'another world' on the amiga/sega cd?

[FKN Unbelievable]

Story is busllsh!t...
He's mentioning pure shoots that he must've like because..
2004 Ninja Gaiden was pushing poly's like a motherPhucker..
then to top it off he acts like the dreamcast did'nt exist.
Virtua fighter 2 set the standard for hi-Res polys with a smooth 60 fps setting unheard of. After that Virtua fighter continued to set the bar graphically with each iteration. Sega was the revolutionary of this 3-D world. Mario was the originator of the free world lol!!

But whats sad is the amount of Sony fanboyism that disagree with everybody when a game not PS3 exclusive gets mentioned. SMH!!! Grown @ss Men acting like Lil Fat B!tches when presented with facts.

[TFXR]

I'd say this is only an okay comparison at best considering current hardware hasn't changed in six years, which is why many of the titles in the interim look so similar.

[Relientk77]

Definitely not the best list

like no Final Fantasy games really? have u seen the graphics on these games, they're insane. I also don't understand how Killzone 2 was not on the list, that was by far the best graphical game on consoles until Uncharted 2 came out. Those are the 2 best graphical games of that year.

[jneul]

oh yay a bunch of console fans fighting over what has the best graphics unless i am mistaken i think killzone 3 got announced as the new gfx king for now, previously it was god of war 3, can't wait to see the battle between infamous 2 and uncharted 3 it's going to be close considering infamous 2 is a sandbox game, i dont think any xbox games are going to get any gfx crowns again this year:-D