Another example is Ico on the PS2, this game from 6 years ago looks better than most next gen games because of the lighting, shadows and artistic direction.
I find myself standing there looking around at the beautiful environments way too often lol
Plus even the characters are very artistically made, the enemies being shadows, how the girl character is always bright and white and everything else is dark, really great and unique look and feel to this game.
Thanks to Blacksaber for the sig!