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Nah.
The visual rendering pipeline that Crysis outputs was a step ahead of all those games you listed... And the reason why graphics isn't subjective but art is... Is actually simple...
Art is the artistic approach to building a scene... Just like a painting. - And people will prefer different art pieces.
Graphics is the approach that frames the art, the types of brush strokes, paint used and so on, that can help define how a piece of art will fundamentally look.
A game like Crysis was pushing graphics effects that no other game was, it had screen space ambient occlusion, it had ray-marched volumetric lighting, parallax occlusion mapping, gaussian depth of field, per-object motion blur and so much more that made that game a graphical showpiece like no other at the time.
Bioshock ran and leveraged what Unreal 3 was outputting, but did have some great graphics effects, especially in the water department. - But it still wasn't Crysis.
Halo 3 had HDR lighting, Tessellated Water effects... But again. Still not Crysis.
Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy when compared against other games released on other platforms only had Art to push (Although had relatively impressive levels of geometric complexity thanks to intelligent culling), because the console that those games were released on, just weren't capable from a graphics effects perspective, you couldn't have global illumination for instance.
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I'm not sure if the definition of graphics are specifically technical, but I think when these discussions occur, we should separate the technical from the artistic. In terms of technical, Crysis killed everything else on the market...even after many years. And honestly, it was also artistically beautiful.
