So you're ignoring the people who have played and it and said it's beyond expectations?

Do you like looking at cars? Or do you like looking at nearly a naked angry spartan cutting everything to shreds, and killing EVERYONE he meets

Show me where someone unbiased, with evidence, claims this will be the new graphics king.

Apples and oranges here.

GT5 is supposed to simulate actual cars and tracks with emphasis on the cars themselves.

Hard models vs. soft models. Hard models are always going to have the advantage in looking more realistic assuming the modelers worked off blueprints of the actual cars.

Lighting is a tough call. I'm assuming GT5 is supposed to have the most realistic outdoor lighting. That would typically be one source: sun, with headlights for darkened track sectors or night time sectors. If they do have night time courses, it's an entirely different ball of wax because all those track lights become your primary and secondary light sources, with car headlights acting as dynamic light sources.

GoW III on the other hand, regardless of how realistic the anatomy of the models are supposed to be, is still highly stylized with lots of unrealistic VFX type lighting solutions. Environment lighting as well is going to be highly stylized as well as opposed to a realistic set up occupied only by sun light, torch light and wood fires.

So which will look "better" will likely be a subjective opinion.

GT5 will probably have smoother frame rates (closer to 60fps most of the time) and will also have a higher native render resolution, which does go a long way in making the visuals sharper and more detailed as opposed to 1280x720 displayed in 1080p mode (upscaled).

http://ps3.nowgamer.com/news/2548/god-of-war-3-the-best-graphics-weve-ever-seen

Well a demo is coming quite soon, so you can judge for yourself, and just ignore all these people going on about what is the graphics king. I am not going to say its anything other than Uncharted 2 until I play it for myself

It depends on what you mean by "better". Gt5 will be more realistic but not more impressive. You see realistic cars all the time but how often do will you see top notch realistic monsters, gods, and whatever else you see in Gow. For me, Gow 3 will look better even though I haven't played either game. I wouldn't care if GT looked perfect, I wouldn't be blown away... unless GT used massive explosions with people flying through the windshields. Since that's unlikely, Gow will have the wow factor and will look better for me.

Cars, always for me cars > naked men.

Depending on how you look at it, GT5 will look a lot better or it will not look better. To the random person? It should look a lot better. Just like PS2 had the best looking console game last generation, GT4.

I'm not arguing here, just expanding on what you're saying. A very good analogy to what is being asked in the OP is that in the last gen, you could say that Ninja Gaiden was the best looking game, because of the difference in the art style and what is going on on the screen. But it's such an apples to oranges thing.