Most Demanding?

I would like to know what you guys think the most "demanding" game is currently. When I say demanding I mean that it requires a insane PC to run it on max settings. Thanks for your input.

BattleField Bad Company 2

S.TA.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat

Its still Crysis.

It needs either an SLI or Crossfire set-up to run at highest settings.

Its still Crysis.

It needs either an SLI or Crossfire set-up to run at highest settings.ProudLarry

Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Shattered Horizon
Metro2033

Those four games pretty much tie for "most absurd hardware requirements".

It's also worth noting that the most demanding games are also the most terribly optimized. At least Crysis has the decency to be the best looking game out there, but Shattered Horizon and Metro don't even come close to matching it's graphics and yet the have arguably higher hardware demands. And from what I hear one of the Microsoft Flight Simulators is notorious for looking like ass and yet still challenging even modern day super-rigs.

It's just Metro 2033 and that is it.

The Crysis series was poorly coded as it takes 2 gens (DX9-DX11) for a DUAL-GPU setup to finally hit 60FPS (Max settings, no eye candy)

Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Shattered Horizon
Metro2033

Those four games pretty much tie for "most absurd hardware requirements".

It's also worth noting that the most demanding games are also the most terribly optimized. At least Crysis has the decency to be the best looking game out there, but Shattered Horizon and Metro don't even come close to matching it's graphics and yet the have arguably higher hardware demands. And from what I hear one of the Microsoft Flight Simulators is notorious for looking like ass and yet still challenging even modern day super-rigs.

gameguy6700

Metro 2033 looks awesome if you compare it to something like FallOut 3 where they both have similar end of days backgrounds. Metro 2033 isn't a tropical island, it's the underground metro tunnels of Russia.

Shattered Horizon isn't crysis. You don't compare the two.

Shattered Horizon looks awesome if you compare it with something like X3 Terran Conflict. Even though they aren't the same genre, they are both very demanding and are based in space and have space combat.

shattered horizons and stalker CoP.. other good benchmarks are bfbc2, dow2: chaos rising and tom clancy's hawx