UE3 was confirmed by Epic that it's not optimzed for 360. It doesnt even use the EDRam chip. Well it may if they change the code for Gears 3. Thats why not one single UE3 game this gen on 360 has FS Anti aliasing.

Just to be pedantic I pointed this out ages ago - way before this or Selnor's threads. As I stated at the time (in one of the usual graphics meltdown comparison threads, one of the downsides of MS strategy was that, by relying so much on third party developed titles the platform was seeing far less titles with custom engines than the PS3.

This year does look to see that situation ease, however unless MS push for more titles like Alan Wake it seems inevitable that the PS3 will continue to see more custom engines than the 360 which, assuming good developers, should mean a higher percentage of technically excellent titles.

Alan Wake looks to match what I've seen in GoW so far, and has a good chance of being the best looking 360 title.

Reach does look good, too, but so far from what I've seen the need to support splitscreen coop amongst other things will likely keep it from quite matching the Uncharted, God of War's and Alan Wakes at the top of the console graphics tree.

Just watched that video, I am still neutral on this matter as this game could swing either way, the video was OK but not the best of story introductions I have seen, it was alright. Although that bit of having to shoot someone in the face with 4 magnum bullets to kill them was a bit lame. The flare gun looks like a pretty awesome, "light" based rocket launcher. Will make up my mind about this game once the reviews and more videos start rolling in.

uncharted2 looks better

Here with all the fanboy drama again.. :\

I agree with the premise of the article but im still unsure about AW being graphics king. Ill wait till it releases.

So if he is a fanboy, people shouldn't be allowed to talk about it???  That's the silliest comment I've seen here in a while.  Anyone can go read his other articles and decide for themselves.  I have no interest in doing this as I have better things to do with my time.  But if others go read the articles and want to post there impressions here, they should be free to do so.

alan wake wont be grafix king wen it releases,

you can view a video on live, althought its streamed it gives you an idea on how it will look on ur telly. looks excellent but not what its hyped to be.

Regarding the OP: duh?

No system is served well by an engine that seeks to be all things to all platforms. It's only when you drill down to the metal, exploiting all of the quirks, bugs and hidden strengths of a particular machine that you can really see what it does--this would be why games at the end of a machine's life invariably look a lot better than those from its first year on the market, i.e. duh. Again.

I think people just need to stop writing stupid articles like these in general, how a game looks is in the eyes of the beholder. Saying a game is artistically best looking is purely a personal opinion, saying a game is technically "shaping" up to be the best is also half assed since the engine has been there this whole time, is decided on how much time and polish is given, all without a final product. The hype simply has to stop, all it does is kill the WOW factor upon release for 99% of the games.