killzone 2

Killzone 2 is far better. Heck, is hard to make first person graphics look as good as third person counterparts. You need better res/details on anything.

Although Gears 2 has better environments. Damn, the game has trees.

probably KILLZONE 2 , bad the future will show, which machine can afford the better graphics. Alan Wake anyone???

The amount of detail in gears 2 is astounding, my and my flat mate were on it and just talking about how it blows most games (resistance 2 especially) out of the water (a game he owns and gladly accepts is inferior)

Killzone 2 though....until i actually play the game, its hard to say. But considering the two games are completely different (TPS and FPS) its really an unfair comparison

In motion Killzone 2 looks FAR better to me. Something about Geow 2's graphics just seem super stale and lifeless. It's like they're really good and full of detail and such, but they seem like an interactive version of the old resident evil games with they're single picture backgrounds lol.

That, and in terms of just sheer amount of activity on screen, KZ 2 beats the piss out of gears 2. Gears felt like it was just you... and whatever you were fighting. It seemed like nothing was going on outside of your own little squabble. It was like "Gears of really close nit and smaller battles" instead of an all out war.

Just overall aesthetics I'm going to give a major nod in Killzone's favor. I think it looks better in motion, has better effects, vastly superior lighting, and seems to have actual life in it's environments. Gears of war 2 could have actually dropped they're texture resolution to make the world seem more like a battlefield. As it stands now, it's just to clean to seem amazing :/ And I mean clean in a bad way.

K2 looks much better. Gears seems to have more details in characters and enemies but the amount of details going on in the scene is much much much higher in Killzone2. Not to mention the character movements (ballet of death anyone).

The one thing I give Gears2 it's areas look pretty cool and varied.

@Kyros, did you ever play the first Killzone? They had a surprising amount of awesomeness in the area's ^^ I think KZ2 will surprise us all in terms of environments.

And Killzone2 Looks even better than Gears 2 five months on.

Killzone 2 by a comparison of the two.

I'd say the textures in Gears 2 are a little more detailed, and some of the environments and characters/enemies are pretty varied and interesting. In every other aspect, lighting, animation, shader usage, particle FX, etc. Killzone 2 wins by a mile. I dunno what kind of variety the KZ2 environments will have yet, so I can't really comment on that -- they might be pretty widely varied.