what about Mass Effect 2??? 

ME2 is not an exclusive :P

Personally i would say the X360 is not "maxed". As others have said you can never max a system graphically. I think it is closer to its limit than say the ps3 though, not a by a huge amount but by a significant enough amount that by the end of this gen there will be no argument from anyone that the ps3 is a more powerful system (although some would argue we are already there).

@leet gamer, i have a gaming pc and crysis, i have played it standard at very high settings and then also with ultra high mods... i honestly don't see what people are raving about, sure in parts it looks fantastic, there is a lot going on, great detail, lots of foliage, huge draw distances, dx10 effects, but put them all together and as a package i would rate killzone 2 a better looking shooter game all the same, especially an unmodded crysis.

Graphic capability has already been maxed out, but the 360 as a whole is not, they can use different techniques on how to utilized the CPU or RAM usage more effectively. Same as the PS3 w/c is far from maxing out still have a lot of improvements and im not talking about just graphics im talking about the console as a whole.

Mass Effect 2 looked great, but I'd say wait till Gears of War 3. Gears of War 2 looked really, really good, and I would say Gears of War 3 will be their best effort to max the system. If anything looks better then Gears of War 3 from a pure graphic perspective I would be surprised.

You were impressed by BBC2 on 360 ? I can understand why Alan Wake after seeing it but BBC2 wasnt imo that impressive.

On topic: I cant see a real progress since years. Alan Wake is the first attempt since GeOW2 to push 360s limits. 

And to the bold one. Do you say that some of the Xbox360 games look almost as good as Crysis if they are on an HDTV ? With the highest and best possible resolution ? Xbox needs for 99.9% games just an HD Ready TV since the games are almost always 720p or even under that, same goes for PS3.
Have you seen Crysis maxed out on an HDTV ? Its miles away from any Xbox360 game. 

Imo we wont see a lot more then we have seen. Xbox is easier to programm for then PS3 so ofcourse it takes less time to use full of its potential. Also PS3 is close to maxed out with Uncharted 2 and GOW3. Next Step on the PS3 will be not as big as the Step between Uncharted and Uncharted 2. 

Crysis 2 could imo show off everything what the Xbox360 can do. 

This is a bad question to ask as with more time+money, engines/software can always be tweaked to work better and better, so technically it would never be "maxed" out.

It will never be "maxed out".

When do i think we will see it's best looking game though?

March 2011

if some of you watched the corrine yu interview then you will know the 360 is far from maxing out. not too far but lets say the difference in it maxing out is eqaul to the difference between uncharted and uncharted 2 in the graphical side but on the CPU side its too far let me put it at that. remedy said itself they can get 30% mroe power than what they were with alan wake on the CPU side its all about technique. Developers take the easy route instead of takign a more difficult route and use the multicore threading parrelel programming etc......
I don't know about the PS3 though only time will tell

Thanks for your input non 360 owner. I'm sure you have a lot of first hand experience with Reach as well. No actually you don't and I'm assuming your making your observations by low res videos you have seen on the internet. Reach is miles ahead of Halo 3 in the graphical department and its just the Beta.  Reach actually runs in 720p as well while Halo 3 ran at sub HD. The final game will be one of the best looking on the console. Unless you have played the beta multiple times on an HDTV then don't waste time commenting.