Is Gears 2 The New Benchmark For Video Games?

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Reasonable said:

KatinJin said:
Gamespy says yes:

While it's certainly open to debate, we're going to go out on a limb and call Gears of War 2 the most visually impressive game of all-time. It actually looks quite a bit better than its predecessor, which most Gears of War fans would agree is quite a feat.


So, yes.

I'm actually rather alarmed that it appears Gamespy console reviewers have never played a PC game like Crysis & Crysis Warhead.  Both on a high end PC are superior visually to Gears and pretty much everything else that I've seen since.  They don't play as well as Gears (although they are good) and the plot for Crysis in particular goes 'a bit wrong' but visually they remain the bar - one so high each new video card/CPU actually seems to allow more and more of the game's engine to shine.

I'm not knocking GeOW2 - it's visually great and I think the best looking 360 game yet and possibly the best looking HD console game yet.  But of all time?  Compared to games with higher resolutions, bigger draw distances, same or greater level of detail, etc?  Nope.

 

 

 

 

 

I think it's pretty clear the reviewer was referring to just consoles.  Bringing PC's into the converstation pretty much ends it.