Best graphics in a PC game currently?

I've been playing Mass Effect 2 a lot recently and it has the best graphics I've seen to date (except for perhaps Crysis, but I like ME2's graphics better). Any other ideas? I really want to use my computer to it's fullest with the new 6870 I just put in it.

Metro 2033 is the reigning king at the moment.

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Uses an earlier version of the just cause 2 engine, the avalanche engine. However it looks quite good albeit suffers from some LOD issues.

However, I have only played ME1 and it ain't going to win any awards so each to their own.

I could write a shitty, 2d flash game that'll run at 5 FPS, will that make me the graphics king?

I imagine if you let someone like Carmack at the Crysis engine for a month, he could have it screaming on modern GPUs.

Most high end GPUs since 4 series ATI can max crysis w/o AA, and 5+ series AA can be maxed as well (this is not including crossfire/dual GPU).

Crysis isn't really that hard to run, it was just a little ahead of its time. Yes it's hard, but yes it's beautiful and has a LOT of sh*t going on. You can't find a game with textures as deep and foliage as beautiful.

To be honest I wish game developers would push the envelope like that more. Games are barely progressing and people are still maxing new games on their 4k ATI series cards.

Well, Cryengine 2 was made for the outside world, jungles. The game can be maxed out by the high end GPUs out there. But seriously, don't you guys think about the texture detail in crysis. I had played Just Cause 2. The game had a huge view distance but with very little detail over objects that were far off. The game was nice though

Oh , and I agree with Alex

They are very similar in terms of visual effect. I think I'm impressed by Just Cause 2 because it looks soo good yet runs silky smooth on my old Alienware m15x-R1 with 9800GT whereas Crysis chokes here and there on the same rig. There is some compromise in the engine I've noticed. Although Just Cause 2 has a greater view distance than Crysis, it tends to give a little in up close textures. But the fact that in JC2 you can go from walking along a street to jumping in a plane then taking off into the skies and seeing for 20 miles and then free falling back to earth in a matter of seconds is very impressive. Thats something that kind of takes you back. Not many game engines handle such drastic changes in perspesctive fluidly. Not to mention there is absolutely no transitions while in game during your adventures. I can traverse the entire world, hopping in and out of vehicles and perspectives and not encounter any load screens or slowdowns. They did a great job with that engine in my opinion. More developers need to take notice with what they accomplished.

Metro 2033 has the best graphics i have seen and enjoyed the gameplay alot more than Crysis.

I think Bad Company 2 owns those games in detail

Also ^ Bulletstorm ..

Bad Company 2 overall I think is probably the best. Considering the destructible environments, and all the other effects with dust and debris. Run that sucker on DX11 with a good video card and its a treat. Crysis lokked pretty dang good considering how crappy it runs on just about ne thing. I haven't tried Metro 2033 yet but its screen shots looks really nice.

BC2 I think is the best so far, also taking into consideration that the multi-player runs extremely smooth for all the stuff thats going on.

Leave all you settings maxed out on metro 2033 just turn off one thing "DOF" Why because i have the game and as soon as i did that my FPS went back to how its meant to be played,lol,Also the game will look like its in DX11 so give it a try.

Did you guys see the tech demo of CryEngine 3? HOLY MONKEY BALLS!

Looks even better than CryEngine 2!

most of you people are having a discussion based on illicit detail.

you really need to decipher what you are talking about before you start having a vote.

what needs to be deciphered:
- do you like games with lots of tessellation and a load of bumps on the textures?
- do you prefer games with lots of graphic detail, regardless of how much tessellation and bumps the environment has?

bulletstorm has a load of tessellation and bumps on everything.
but the actual color accuracy of the pictures that wrap the wired 3D models are mediocre and dull.
the final result feels highly fake and cartoonish, all because of the shade of colors they decided to use.

the developers might have wanted to make the graphics look fake and cartoonish.
and it is your right to enjoy the massive amount of bumps rather than a step towards photo-realism.

a standard needs to be made.
because photo-realism provides 'graphic' content in an invisible method.
its when your brain starts to dive into the screen and you get an altered sense of environment.

cartoon 'graphic' content is not invisible.
all of the extra wires and bumps in the textures are seen, pointed at, and claimed as 'graphic'

those two different uses of the word 'graphic' are used extremely differently.

one might consider all of the extra wires a 'seasoning' like salt or pepper on food.
another might consider the brain being tricked into thinking its in a new environment as 'seasoning'

Crysis Warhead is still number 1 visually though Metro 2033 is a close 2nd
1. Crysis Warhead
2. Metro 2033
3. Crysis
4. BFBC 2
5. Call of Juarez Bound in Blood (seriously good texture work)
6. Batman Arkham Asylum
7. Just Cause 2
8. Far Cry 2

I think many games look absolutely gorgeous but these 8 are the ones that stand out to me. I am probly forgetting a game or 2 that might replace some on my list but I can not remember them at the moment.

Have you've seen epic games unreal 3 engine? my god, it looks nice

HellooOooooO why no one mentioned ASSASSINS CREED 2 or brotherhood?
it's the most graphical game after crysis

Metro 2033... for now

I recently bought a new system that can run Crysis Warhead at 2560x1440 with everything maxed out. Everything.

I can't imagine anything better graphically. Mass Effect 2 at that rez looks nice but very bare bones in comparison. A fun thing to do if you get a new system is go back to Crysis/Crysis Warhead (I played them on lesser setting a couple years ago) and play them on easy mode just to take a tour of the graphics. Fun stuff.

People think that just because a game was actually developed properly, the graphics are crap, this is not true, shure crysis and metro 2033 choke all but a 3 way 580 sli and I7 extreme setup but that isnt because there graphics are great, thats because they are coded like ***, people assume they look better because they choke up there systems, get real people, the only reason they seem better is because you have more time to stare at indevidual frames every time they choke up.
none the less screw all those games im waiting for Battlefield 3, because its being made right, and being ported to the consoles, not the other way arround
B3=pc -graphics to the consoles
other games= consoles+graphics to pc

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