Nope, I don't think it looks that great either.

For the most part the game is a very linear corridor/room shooter with no deviation from a very rigid path. Even most of the boss fights are contained in very small areas.

I think MGS4 is a good comparison. As both games have relatively linear paths, boss fights and on-the-rails vehicle gameplay.

Between the two I think MGS4 takes the cake. For although the visual quality in RE5 remains high throughout -unlike MGS4 which seems to dip and rise- RE5 never had any "wow" moments as I recall MGS4 having.

*Dreams of awesome 'wow' moments*

hmm can't agree with all of those games.

Ones for sure. They all look great and in the end it's a matter of opinion.

Yes I do think Resident Evil 5 looks gorgeous, but for me Far Cry 2 looks even better. Character models in MGS4 look awesome and the areas are huge, but aside from cutscenes (which I know are ingame) I wouldn't set it in the Top 5. Probably a contender for number 6. Also Gears 2 is a bit too high (more like Nr.7) Uncharted is also a little bit too high. Where is Gran Turismo 5 Prologue ?

My Top 10:

1. Killzone 2
2. Far Cry 2
3. Uncharted
4. Resident Evil 5
5. Metal Gear Solid 4
6. Gears of War 2
7. Assassin's Creed
8. Resistance 2
9. GRID
10. Mass Effect

Best console graphics!

Next, Megaman treats us to his newest Top 5 listing: the world's top 5 tallest midgets!

Just add Crysis and Crysis Warhead on place 1 and 2, then you have "Best graphics"

it IS that easy.

UC 2 looks better that all of them, and this so good to know

Nah. Mirror's Edge would jump from "pretty good," as it is on consoles, to "better than anything but Crysis" on PC. If you haven't seen it, it's fantastic.

And then there are RTS, like Dawn of War II, which have exceptional graphics. That game would absolutely demolish the PS3/360. It would run even worse than Supreme Commander did on the 360.

Of course, RTS tend to be discounted because people usually mean individual character models when they talk about graphics, not a more general sense of graphical accomplishment. The fact that RTS tend to have modestly detailed characters automatically makes them "bad," even if the game then proceeds to show 200 of those characters on screen simultaneously all acting independantly.

But, yeah. Mirror's Edge PC. Dawn of War II would chew up the PS3/360 and spit them out in 10 seconds.

ill explain it again, there is greater technical achivement in doing more with less, there is beter engeneering in Killzone2 and Gears2 than in Crysis, why ?better use of resources means way better techniques been used, so if you need 8GB of ram and a quadra cell with a year 2020 graphic card to render a pixar movie in real time that is not better that Ucharted 2 that can look the way it does, with a modified Nvidia 7300 , a Cell processor and 256MB of ram.

So to be fair we need to wait for crysis 2 on consoles and compare that to Killzone and uncharted 2, if it Looks better then we can give credit to crytek, if not then guerrilla and naugthy dog are much better programers. Also we could put guerrilla and naugthy dog to develop for PC without resource restrictions and see if crysis can match their graphics.

Okay, so "doing more with less" is being considered here?

Then pretty clearly the most impressive game is on the DS or another portable. I might pick Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Have you seen some of the iPhone games? You'll be amazed what some developers can do with that hardware. God of War:CoO should also get a mention.

What I can promise you is that 0 games from the PS3/360 will be on this hypothetical list. None of these games come close to stretching that hardware like some DS or other handheld games. How could they? Uncharted, for example, hasn't come close to maximizing the PS3, because Naughty Dog told us so directly. In fact, we hear all the time from Sony that their hardware hasn't come close to being maximized yet.

Using your definition, here is my personal list:

Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Plants Vs. Zombies iPhone
Dragon Quest IX
Resistance: Retribution

I'm probably missing many iPhone/Smartphone games, since I know less about them. Regardless, your list is ridiculous given your apparent constraints. Any mention of PS3/360 games is absolutely laughable by your definition. None of those games come close to pushing the constraints of their systems.

I own all of those games and 100% agree.