yea i agree about far cry 3 running like shit on consoles but i still think it looks better graphically but thats because i like the lush environment, its just my taste. you dont have to agree with me and i dont have to agree with you, everyone has their preferences.

Yep pretty much.  I bet its gorgeous on PC but really on console its got some big performance problems.  Still beautiful but far too flawed when compared to Halo 4.  To me Halo 4 is best looking FPS this gen and top 3 overall with God of War 3 and Uncharted 3.  Far Cry 3 isnt even top 10 IMO on console.  I dont really blame the developer though, I just think the hardware on PS3 and 360 is just really starting to show its age outside of optomized 1st party big budget games.  Gears Judgement, GOW Ascension, Last of Us, and Beyond will all look great but at this point we really need new consoles next year, the gap between console and PC is giant now and it shows with titles like Far Cry 3

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I've played both games. Farcry 3 on PS3, and I was surprised it managed to have all this foliage and draw distance, and I've played Halo4 just the same.

Halo 4 has a much better art direction and its graphics are more beautiful not because of an added level of detail, where I see Farcry 3 coming ahead, but because it runs really smooth and has a really effective art direction.

Hmm interesting.  I havent played FC3 on PS3 so maybe it runs better on that than on 360.  Because I actualky thought draw distance was one of the weak points for the game on Xbox as it really suffers from distant pop in.  I agree the amount of foliage is pretty damn impressive though

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Far Cry 3: The Digital Foundry Verdict

Compared to the first stretch of Dunia's legs on console the engine improvements are small but impactful. We don't see anything as game-changing as the wildfire dynamic being added to the equation, but refinements to motion capture and facial animation technology do much to amplify the beats in Far Cry 3's story. At the centre of the show is Michael Mando's delightfully off-kilter performance as Vaas, and the new tools are applied to equally great effect with the player's first-person hand animations. Jungle exploration has always been the running theme of the series, but propping up a narrative backbone in this way only adds to your sense of purpose around the islands.

But which version offers the best experience? Alas, abundant full-screen tearing does much to curtail the look of an otherwise gorgeously designed game on console platforms, for which both PS3 and 360 are guilty to equal degrees. Frame-rate is also a big drag too, and we'd hoped for better than the 20-30FPS fluctuations we're getting from both platforms during gunplay - though 360 fares slightly better here overall. There are stability issues with the PC release too but given the right hardware specs this is undeniably the road to take for a tear-free experience.

Image quality bears mention too: both console releases are tightly paired in their approach to multi-sampling native 720p outputs, and the only eye-catching difference is the dithered shadows on Sony's platform around globally illuminated areas. As if to compensate here, we see superior texture filtering on PS3 and slightly less evidence of triangle culling after fast-travelling around the archipelago. It's a close call in many respects, but the shadow issue sticks out even without the other formats to compare it to, leading us to give the 360 a nod here as well.

In all, Ubisoft Montreal has conjured up a beautiful, boar-skinning, hang-gliding romp on all three platforms, though tolerance is advised for console owners whose pet peeves include screen tearing. Otherwise, the scale of cut-backs to these versions isn't as extreme as we'd expected going in. Many principle effects and assets are faithfully upheld from the PC version - even down to the taxing ambient occlusion, and global lighting. Image quality purists will know where to find all the bells and whistles, but in the final tally, Far Cry 3 stands as a strong multi-platform release.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-far-cry-3-face-off

Yeah the screen tearing is awful.  I was not aware the game was native 720 though?  Is that native?  The game didnt look it while playing it

Digital Foundry

"The 360 version runs at 1280x704, with eight-pixel borders at the top and bottom of the screen accounting for the reduction. It's unclear how this benefits performance precisely (we suspect it's easier on memory management), but the avoidance of any upscaling means we're left with a very clear image indeed"

"Bizarrely, the PS3 takes the same tack in terms of odd resolution, albeit with a slightly more aggressive crop to the native 720p output. Subtle borders are added to the sides of the image here, in addition to those on the vertical axis, giving us an overall resolution of 1274x702"

Grandia said: Halo 4 is the best looking console game and all the ps3 Fanboys start crying, mimimi but the cell has alien technology not possible that xbox games look better than ps3 games mimimim............. So funny with the ps3 fanboys

Im gonna tell VGKing on you !