FF13 most certainly does not look better, can't comment on the others though.

Disregarding technical issues, I still vote for Crysis 2.  The real-time GI/volumetric lighting gives everything depth and just looks real, some of the other games assets look flat with painted on textures in comparison.

I think Alan Wake, FF 13, and GT 5 must be there

Lost Planet and Trine certainly don't look better either....I don't know what he's talking about.

I could see the argument for Heavy Rain looking better, though to be fair its doing MUCH smaller environments and much smaller scale of on screen stuff.  Gears is doing huge environments with dozens of enemies on screen at once.  Its much easier to make something like Heavy Rain look pretty than something like Gears of War.

well im glad to know if a ps3 game has good graphics it must be awesome

Those games are the best looking in their categories.
(they included Just Cause 2 for this reason I think)

i agree with the top 3

I don't mind a journalist posting their top 10 list based on their opinion but when you try and pass it off as some carefully crafted order based on a technical critique it's a joke.  It says based on the merits "technically and visually" with no futher highlighting of how they were supposedly scored to come to this "ranking".

Why has nobody bothered to question the motivation of a list like this that includes zero technial analysis?  There seems to me a very obvious reason Gears 2 is in there and not Mass Effect 2, they felt like giving a concession to 360 owners in the form of a exclusive in there.  To me it just makes even more of a mockery of the "ranking" system they used (i.e. pulled out of their ass and plonked on a page).  This is first class shit journalism for hits, seems to have paid off too given the attention they're getting.

I know that many may not agree, but I LOVED Demon's Souls graphical style.

Ahhh, so you came down on the side of GOWIII over KZ3 in the end.

I can't fully agree with Uncharted 2 in first place with GR. I think the top 3 are very close. On my 720p 36"TV (not a great set up to judge) I give it to GoWIII on a screen for screen basis, but with KZ3 some battles there's soooo much going on that it's got to be worth something. So hard to really separate the 2 on technical grounds.

Aesthetically, which is really what's most important for each person, I have to give it to GoWIII. Haven't seen Crysis 2 live so I can't place it anywhere for myself. Uncharted 2 is certainly pretty and it really holds its own.