I've spent a lot of time with both of these games and I give the edge to Halo 4 partly because of its scale and gorgeous art direction. Also the cutscene graphics looked acceptable for 8th gen, amazing detail for the time.

Scale's on Halo 4's side, but perhaps as a result of that I found Gears Judgement (and 3) had a greater degree of fine texture detail.

Motorstorm looked so so impressive on the ps3 back in 2007(Australia) so I’d have to give one to that!

I'd like to add another Wii game to my list! Originally I had Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Red Steel 2. Both fantastic looking games, but one game I've forgotten about was The Conduit. The game looked surprisingly good for a Wii game, and was comparable to early 360 games.

Some of the techniques they implore hide the limitations of the console, but others highlight it. I'll show you what I mean:

Looks fine, right? Maybe at first glance, but the low resolution of the Wii creates these muddy textures that almost look like they are ripped out of an N64 game. In addition, when you look off into the distance the geometry is just awful. It seems almost out of place as if you are experiencing partial culling or just extreme LODs. Objects, such as grass that you can cut, stick out like a sore thumb and generally look unnatural. Link himself looks great, the enemies look great too. Lots of poly's, etc. The art style COULD have been fantastic, had it been carried over to the Wii U and bumped up distant geometry and display resolution. 

You are right, but I personally factor in Halo 4s draw distance while maintaining its graphical fidelity. Gears J was more close quarters by comparison. 

We are making quite a list here.

Yeah, The Conduit and its sequel Conduit 2 are probably the two most graphically advanced games on Wii, pushing a ton of effects rarely seen on the system like normal mapping, depth of field, fluid simulation, etc.

There's not as polished or artistically accomplished as the likes of the Galaxy games or Prime 3, but in terms of technology they pushed the system hard.

Depends on which platform you play, If any platform counts, then maybe Skyrim on the xbox one X, or fallout 3 in 4K on the X.

If we mention only played on 7th generation consoles, then maybe Max payne 3 or tomb raider, Uncharted 2 and 3, Last of us. GTA doesn't count as was full of jaggies.

I would say, overall image Tomb Raider, that's the only game I stopped to look at the design of the walls and stuff.

You're thinking of the 8th gen.

The 7th gen is Wii, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3.