I've played Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat.

None of them are even close to what other games achieved years ago. SoC would have been impressive in 2004, but it came out 3 years later, while CoP looks even worse than Oblivion.

Call of Pripyat simply looks veeeeery disappointing even with everything on MAX (DX10).

Only thing it does really well visually is the use of lighting effects, but those are barely enjoyable when the rest (vegetations, character models etc.) look like crap.

I somewhat agree with Barozi. This game doesn't look very good, it looks pretty strange (that is: unnatural). Perhaps it's just the artistic direction, but it seems to me that the various graphics effects are badly put together.

ok, after an 11 man enemy encounter and finally coming out on top i got to say i really love this game even more.