I think I know wow to put how absurd the graphics comparison between modern consoles is

the level of awesome furnished by having George Plimpton not with standing think about how absurd the comparison is, more life like, really?

but then again the graphics war goes all the way back to the coleco handheld football vs the mattel handheld football, yep my red LEDs look better than your red LEDs

at this point trying to say which has better visuals between the HD twins is pointless, the main difference will ultimately come from biases, which we all have and unless their is an undeniable difference like frame rate problem or atrocious amounts of Lod'ing as far as I'm concerned the PS3 and 360 are in a dead heat honestly Gears, Uncharted, Killzone, Alan Wake, Mass Effect, no matter what it is, if their is some huge difference it is mainly in your head

I thought Mass Effect 2 had the best graphics evaaar?

I just find these graphical dick measuring contests to be so sad. At least this time he added the qualifier of "consoles". Usually I have to remind people the they best looking game is Crysis a PC game launched more than 2 years ago (2007!). Despite only talking about consoles it seems pretty silly to be splitting hairs about which game may or may not have the best graphics when the PC took the crown and went home years ago. What we should be debating is gameplay, and since none of us have played AW perhaps we should just hold off an wait?

Assuming those are real shots not bullshots I would have to say it looks great for a console game. I would love to see it running next to UC2 to compare them in motion. It may or may not be the best, but its in the running at least. Or so it seems based on those screenies. Oh course we all saw how Forza turned out so I'm gonna withhold judgement.

The last point I wanted to make was about Heavy Rain. While the character models look great their movements are almost comically wooden. Watching the boobiez trailer from a few weeks back it was hard not to notice that they obviously cheaped out on the motion-capture. Great models that move unrealistically does not good graphics make. That said I have nothing against the game, I just don't get the hype about how it looks. UC2 and KZ2 are both far better looking when you look at lighting, movement, and in the case of UC2 even texturing.

Lets talk technical merits- dynamic vs static lighting, character models, textures, ect. Or everybody could just go and flame each other for the next dozen pages...

I think heavy rain looks more realistic.

Every single post in this thread is Opinion. 

And what exactly makes a good looking game? No one can answer that.

Exactly.

Threads like this should always have "IMO" At the end of the title. That should be a rule.

My point is that its silly, not that I don't have an opinion. Very clear distinction. Sorry if you missed that. I never said I needed to play either one just see footage hence my comment on Heavy Rain looking worse than UC2. I've played one and seen the other in motion. UC2 has realistic movements Heavy Rain looks stiff. What I did say was they I don't 100% trust those screenshots (or video), but if they are real then it is competitive. If they are bullshots than UC2 still holds the (console) crown.  Everything I said in the original post was fairly clear.

Did you have a point whatsoever or where you just trying to be obtuse?

Edit: Just saw your sig. Perhaps you think I'm insulting your game. That was certainly not the intention. It looks great, just not UC2 great.

Stop making best graphics threads. You've been wrong....EVERY time

Beautiful game, shame this thread went the wrong way due to your OP and title.


I am really sad this game won't be on the PC.

You shouldn't judge a game's graphics based on 5 pictures out months before the games release. You don't know of those are cutscenes or actual gameplay. If it's actual gameplay then it looks great.