Eurogamer: Mario Kart 8 "best looking console game of the year"

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teigaga said:

celador said:
It is a very nice looking game in motion, but it is not close to being the best console game in terms of graphics this year.

By best do you mean most intensive or advance?

Best to me means how the graphics are utilised, the appearance they create. A game could have 100m polys on screen versus a game with only 100k poly but nicer lighting and pretty particle effects. The latter game in my opinion would have the ''better graphics''

There's good looking "photorealistic" and good looking "non-photorealistic".  And then there's artistic style.

I would say MK8 is the best looking "non-photorealistic".  Overall though I wouldn't give it the title for best looking game of the year.

Right now I'd give it to COD:AW.  It's atmospheric, detailed, and varied.  The Antarctica level graphics were really cool.  The cutscenes have CG so good that I keep having to check if it's CG people or real people.  It's not the best just because it's technically better, it's best because of how the graphics are utilised.