15 Games of 2018 With the Best Graphics

The most visually stunning games of 2018.

[Jimboms]

Really great list, top games mate!

[IamTylerDurden1]

God of War is the best looking game ever made imo. Played on Pro, in resolution mode, on a 4K HDR. Detroit is absolutely stunning and a truly great game, but it comes second. Spider-man is gorgeous, particularly with photo mode. DICE honestly doesn't get enough credit, even Battlefront 2 was breathtakingly beautiful.

[Edito]

@Dukdodgers Empty claims it's not like I don't agree with you... I just want you to name it...

[BehindTheRows]

Detroit is also my winner!

[anonymousfan]

Funny how the PS4 is theoretically held back by it's aging hardware yet it cranks out some of the best graphics! Some of those devs are wizards I swear :)

[piroh]

Did you play God of war on ps4pro? Astonishing

[anonymousfan]

@piroh I bought the PS4 pro God of War edition and although I only had time to play the first hour and a half on a regular TV set (1080p) I thought it looked incredible!

[mandingo]

performance over graphics

[Bronxs15]

i recently played at at some points it's looks so real. especially this one part with alice, she looked so damn real with the lighting and textures.

[Yi-Long]

It's been another great year for gaming, right before we are stepping into next gen (possibly in 2019 already, if not, then 2020 for sure...), so the mind boggles at the possibilities/potential coming to us gamers soon.

I liked Spider-Man, but was a bit let-down by the setting: Yeah, it's a gorgeous and faithful rendition of New York, but sadly, New York is quite a visually boring city.

Red Dead 2 is absolutely amazing though, especially when you take into account it's an open world game (a huge one at that).

Loved the demo for Detroit, and once I've cleared a few more games from my backlog, I'm looking forward to picking it up. Same goes for Dragon Ball FighterZ.

A shame there aren't downloadable/'smaller' games on the list though. Divinity original Sin 2, Tetris, Ashen, Gris, etc etc.

[Immorals]

It's a real shame that RDR2 doesn't have proper hdr. Really takes the edge away from it for me

[Yi-Long]

Seems like something that could be fixed in time.

That said, I've been playing it on XBO X on my 1080p Panasonic Plasma, and it already looks stunning without HDR.

[UltraNova]

Same here. This game had the potential to be the top of the top HDR showcase on both Movie and Game media. I don't know how R* could mess this up, seriously.

[No Way]

You think New York is a visually boring city? I'd really like to know what you think looks good, visually, then?

[Yi-Long]

Well, New York is a grid-based, very flat city. So there are no curves, no dips and heights, no 'flow', etc etc. Its architecture is mostly boring brown and grey mid-height buildings, with a few special ones in-between.

Compare it to cities like Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei, Kyoto, etc etc, which have mountains, greens, many different building styles from different eras, curving roads, old and new, and there really is no comparison. Even within the USA, there are far more visually interesting cities, like San Francisco, and LA.

From the creators of Sunset Overdrive, which had a colourful diverse city, I would have liked to have seen a bit more creative freedom/liberties when it comes to recreating New York City, but I felt they played it VERY safe with their New York, and their game in general (character-models, gameplay, depth, sounds, etc).

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my time with the game (solid 7/10), but the city has absolutely nothing to offer for me to now go back to it, after I finished the game, while I believe I can keep dropping into Red Dead 2's world any day, months or even years after finishing that game... because it's a gorgeous world full of activities and stuff to keep yourself occupied/entertained with.

[starchild]

I agree about Red Dead Redemption 2. It looks incredible. The amount of detail and interaction in that game is beyond anything I've seen in any other open world game.

[lollord]

God bless ps4

[_FantasmA_]

Science & Technology blessed the PS4.

[akbennyewu]

And the winner is... A QTE movie!!!!!!

[Skankinruby]

Your shallow narrow minded mentality can't appreciate a great game unless it follows a generic set of guidelines, your loss.

[akbennyewu]

Good one!

Why in the world are you so devastated by my factual comment?

[No Way]

In some ways I agree; no doubt a great looking title, but I don't feel that there is quite as much going on as some of the other titles.

[IamTylerDurden1]

People like this are the reason Detroit doesn't get the credit it deserves. Detroit smashes any game in its genre, a truly impressive narrative adventure game.

[Kribwalker]

what is factually incorrect with his statement? it’s a cinematic game filled with QTEs.....

[Dragonscale]

At least it doesn't have 30 minute crappy live action tv episodes after each chapter like a certain xbone travesty lol.

[bluefox755]

It's not factual. A qte movie would imply that that it's on rails with the only mechanics being qtes. This is objectively false, and you are wrong.

[akbennyewu]

I respectfully disagree, thank you.

[Atticus_finch]

Qte movie or not still has the best graphics. You mad!?

[EddieNX]

Forza Horizon 4 on the Xbox one X is the real winner. It looks like real life lol.

[Traecy]

The article states Detroit:BH as the winner!! 6 PS4 exclusives on that page.

[BehindTheRows]

No, it does not.

[neocores8055]

??? do you even go out or no if not u need help man

[EddieNX]

Did you just assume my social life? I go out all the time man :)

Personally , Forza Horizon 4 on X is the best looking game I've seen this year. It doesn't literally look like real life, but it's closer than anything else.

[Rude-ro]

See, that is your issue...
it takes the x beefing up a 360 game engine to say anything...
That’s not graphics, that’s make-up

[bluefox755]

If you think it looks like real life, you need to get out more, lol. It's a good looking game, on pc at least, can't speak for Xbox. It's not better looking than God of War, not even close.

[_FantasmA_]

I've only played Spiderman and the Detroit demo. Both look great. The amount of detail in Spiderman is amazing, I guess you could say this is the Amazing Spiderman.

[MrSec84]

Spiderman is definitely a looker, even on the base PS4 and to think that it's an open world game it just adds to the challenge the Devs faced in making such a game happen.

I have a copy of Detroit, but haven't got around to installing it yet.
God of War is the best looking game I've personally played this generation, it's insane how amazing that game looks, along with the awesome combat, amazing puzzles, it's just phenomenal IMO.

FH4 does blow me away on my XB1-S as well, not in the same league as the likes of HZD it Spidey, but still amazing given the hardware in the S.

[_FantasmA_]

Tell me about. Everytime I play Spiderman, I notice something new. I mean the draw the distance is this game is superb. I haven't noticed any pop in on the buildings. Even from the tallest buildings, you can see the ripples in the water. You can see the planes and helicopters in the sky, even the far away ones. None of the buildings pop in and out even when you're flying and chasing the bad guys. There's steam coming out of the vents, and birds landing on rooftops. This game is a technical Marvel. I don't really like superheroes anymore. I have yet to see any of the post-Tobey movies, but this game is really fun and well made.

[gangsta_red]

The graphics in Spidcer-Man were good, but I was thrown off by the extreme close ups they had to do when characters where talking. I have no idea why cinematic games feel the need to do this with their games, extreme zoomed in shots of a persons face with eyes staring into the void.

[ChasingTheSun]

Even an xboxone funded/biases site has to swallow their pride and proclaim a ps4 exclusive as the best looking game graphically all gen, for me mlb the show is a great reason to own a ps4, the only mlb sim baseball is on the best console only!!!

I been saying that no game this gen comes close to matching the character models in detroit become human, GOW, horizon zero dawn, mlb the show, etc.

Love how xboxone marks are trying to scunge up some multiplatform games and the tired overused forza franchise to try to pretend to themselves that they look so great on the X.

[Mainman187]

No Nintendo game. Not surprised.

[2ndhandcorn]

Only played Forza from the list it looks nice in 4k.

[JohnEMcGahan]

Play CS-GO in 4k!