Games that were graphically well ahead of their time

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Pemalite said:

Azzanation said:
Not a popular choice but Doom 3 and its lighting for the time was incredible.

It's the stencil shadows that really made it stand out visually.

It was impressive at the time but its aged badly. I thought they way overused/overcooked spectacular maps and the low res textures and normal maps didn't help. Character models were quite low poly too.

In the same year (2004) Half Life 2 released and tbh it still looks quite serviceable today.