So two weeks ago I bought a brand new computer... Core I7 processor, Nividia 295GTX graphics card, 4gb of memory.  So I can play Crysis maxed out.  First let me start by saying Crysis does look amazing.  However, these pics I always see are very misleading.  When playing the game at a high resolution you can easily tell its a game and while it can sometimes come semi close, there is never a point where you would literally question if you were looking at a game or real life.  Yet these rl/crysis comparison pics are always low res or pixelated and even after playing the game I can hardly tell the real pictures from the crysis ones.  So the bottom line is, Crysis is amazing, but the game does not look like real life nearly to the degree that all these comparison pictures suggest.

One other note, and I probably shouldn't do this but now that I got to play Crysis on max settings and the Killzone 2 demo I just wanted to make a quick comparison.  Crysis has better textures, more environment detail and much more realistic environments.  On the otherhand Killzone 2 seems to have much better character models, gun models, and animations.  Basically, there are aspects of Crysis that are out of Kilzone 2's league, but there may be an equal number of aspects of killzone 2 that are out of crysis' league.  IMO