Built New Machine.. Which game show off graphics the best

Basically like the titles says.. got a new Q6600 and eVGA 8800GT and looking for something to show it off. Opinions on the most/best graphic intense game out there currently.









P5K-E LGA
Antec Nine Hundred
2* 7200.11 seagates
Vista 64 bit
EVGA GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit

lol.. I order Crisis with the machine.. saw to many posting about it..

Crysis with a tweaked config if you just want to show off the graphics.

its not vista 64, its just VISTA

CoD4 and Bioshock look decent. I've heard good things about STALKER as well.

Hmm... maybe Doom? Never played it, but it seems to use shadows pretty well.

Oh, if you can to scare people, get F.E.A.R. While it doesn't look fantastic, it looks good enough... especially when it starts getting into some really freaky horror-movie'esque scenes. I wouldn't use this to showcase graphics capabilities though. I still think Crysis w/ cranked effects is the best for that.

I believe this is what you want:

Visually, I don't believe there is a difference if you keep yourself within the resolutions defined above.

Yeah, there's a bit of blood. You'll be walking around in a level then just be like, "WTF just happened here?!"

I still haven't managed to finish the game and I've had it for like 3 months now. Just creeps me out!

It's not the blood that disturbs me, it's the weird little crab-walking girl and the things that keep popping out at me... lol. They also like to point you down a dim-lit corridor every once in a while... "You're like, I don't want to go down there... but there is no other way >_>. Then you'll get like half-way down and the lights will cut off. AHHHHHHHH!" I won't spoil what happens next.

Bioshock, quake wars, Oblivion, ut3.
Doom3 or Q3 on maxed out settings, these games still look good!

So Chris, good to hear that you got your rig, i've got the same cpu and gpu, I still think you're going to need a good soundcard. on board sound sux.

Crysis by far, then Oblivion and UT3, of all the others COD4 is next,Q4, ETQW, BioShock and Doom3 is last but it's the oldest, the games last year just got better each time, didnt thinks GoW was that good, have not played FEAR or Witcher or HellGate

that bad.. lol.. ok..

call of duty 4 on my new 8800gt blew me away!

Crysis, COD4, Fear, Oblivion, and HL2 episode 2 & TF2 (orange box) too good not to include and dated source is still looking great IMO. http://pc.ign.com/articles/825/825992p1.html

BTW, may not be wise to start with crysis as it's the one game here your system will really struggle in. May as well enjoy some other beautiful games at max details first.

What does it take not to struggle? Dual GTS 8800s?

Depends on the resolution. The system doesn't exist yet that can handle max (very high) details, high resolution, and fsaa. I can play 1680x1050 High details and 2xaa/16xaf. SLi does well in crysis though. One 8800GT could probably handle very high details no fsaa at a lower resolution 12x10 or 14x9. But it would slow down later in the game. My point is if you want to see the best graphics currently out in a game try crysis. But keep in mind unlike most other games, you won't be able to just go in and crank all the settings to max.

Yeah I noticed when talking to people in Oblivion they were all very unemotional, this is not the case in Witcher, try the demo.

Guess what Chris just go onto download.com or where ever and download all the demo's for the games we mentioned with the exception of hl orange box, just plain old go out and buy that, everyone should have that anyways, everyone enjoys hl.
Demos for this weekend:
UT3
Crysis,
Witcher
cod4.

You simply must try Crysis. On my 8800GTS G92 I can just barely play Very High at 1680x1050. It isn't a perfect experience, but it's fast enough where I can truly appreciate the graphics.