when people call crysis simply "graphics king" there are many things they don't take into account. Now before i'm flamed for this. Let me say that I do 3d animation and that my pc rig is a 12gig ddr3 ram machine with a x5770 and a core i7 930.
I run crysis on ultra high.
Now crysis is no doubt the best looking in some departments. SOME being the key word. Other areas the game is clearly starting to show it's age. And wether or not it was king to begin with in third is debatable.
Alien VS Predator looks better than crysis in some aspects. (tesselation helps.)
Killzone 2 has better particle explosions (in my opinion) along with better animations and better lighting.
Uncharted 2 has more fluidity of animations and a more broad view of landscapes and large draw distance locations.
God of war 3 pounds it in scale and beats it in some visual fidelitys.
Simply calling crysis king without mentioning that it's actually only in some aspects either show your igorance, a will to avoid certain things.
Ofcourse the real key here is that a large amount of these things are opinion, as they has to be. Concidering most games are made in different styles and shades.
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