Best graphics of E3 2016

Tons of awesome looking games at this year's E3 so it's pretty difficult to single out the best one this time around. But there's one game that separates itself from the rest in terms of looking most CGI like, and it is God of War. Everything was real time, same quality of lighting, shaders and models throughout the whole demo in one continues shot as mentioned by the devs. It has the most detailed character model ever bathed in high quality volumetric lighting with GI bounce, high quality skin shaders and complex fur shaders that really pumps out that organic feel. The environment detail is through the roof with tessellated snow, dense geometry, high res textures everywhere, yet presented in a huge scale for you to explore. Not to mention the promised epic giant boss fights that would elevated the visuals ten folds. What we've seen at E3 is nothing but a taste of what's to come visually, yet it has already reached such heights. Behold, a new graphics king has arrived.

Runner up

Horizon Zero Dawn

Third Place

Detroit

Just imagine Neo version of those games now! Yeah I'm not seeing Gears 4 coming anywhere close HDR or not.

Gears 4

Gears of War 4 is the most impressive looking weather simulator I've ever seen

@junky-trunk: lol. Since when does real lightning create electrified orbs/obstacles that you have to dodge?

Horizon is first place. Be serious bro. God of War doesn't even look better than Uncharted 4. Horizon's scale+art style puts it at the top.

why you putting console games on this list?

BF1 is far far away from the rest, just like battlefront was last year, as always nobody can compete with DICE or Crytek, not even using bullshots

BF1 easily.

lol you didn't even mention it.

I think Zelda Breath of the Wild had best graphics. Im a fanboy for non-linear graphics.

So purdy.

I consider the God of War games some of the best looking games in previous gens. On PS2, PS3 and PSP they trumped every other game.

So I was a bit disappointed by God of War PS4, because it looked great, but not amazing.

I'd have to go with Battlefield 1, Gears of War 4 and Dishonored 2.

Battlefield 1 for the effects and overal graphics.

Gears of War 4 had some amazing weather effects, and it's good to finally see UE4 in a big AAA game.

Dishonored 2 really blew my mind in some instances. Rewatched the gameplay trailer yesterday, the game truly has some amazing sights.

Er, not sure if serious. BF1 MP looks like dog crap next to them, sure for a MP level it looks good but it's not even close to GOW, Horizon or Detroit. Campaign graphics should be good tho.

God of War didnt look that impressive, maybe on par with UC4 or Tomb Raider.

Horizon was so much better looking AND had better gameplay.

Maybe you should go and play Drive Club if you think Gears 4 is the most impressive.

God of War didn't look impressive at all. I was underwhelmed as it looks significantly worse than Uncharted 4. Compared to the epic showing that was GOW3 in 2010 I was disappointed.

Horizon however looks damn impressive and the art style looks gorgeous. Not only is it technically impressive but it is also very pretty. God of War looks good but nothing to write home about. Certainly not a stand-out.

After thinking about it, for me it's a two-way tie between Mass Effect Andromeda and God of War. But in all honesty, just about all big budget games nowadays are visually impressive in their ways, such that arguing about which is "superior" comes down more than ever to personal taste.

Battlefield 1, hands down

People need to understand GOW's E3 showing was its most tame moment relative to its usual epic giant boss fight. But despite that fact, its tame moment still looked gorgeous and easily walks among the best of everyone else. Just imagine a titan sized boss with those graphics. Horizon sure looked awesome with huge scale, dense environment and pristine lighting, but it's pretty much blowing all its load now whereas GOW hasn't even shown its best boss fights yet.

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Sea of Thieves and Zelda were my favorites, very beautiful mix of power and style

Youre saying his opinion is wrong?

@Juub1990: to me it looks substantially better than uc4 especially in lighting and character model. But I can see why some people don't feel as impressed due to lack of huge boss battle, pixel quality wise tho it's the best to me.

@thepclovingguy: no need to call names, just disagree, explain and move on etc. I've had it with people's childish attitude

@leandrro: 1+

@Juub1990: GoW looks insane, not sure what's not impressive about it.

Battlefield 1 looked best. God of War doesn't look better than Uncharted 4. Its graphics look like something that you expect from any other current gen game. Horizon has nice aesthetics that cover up its low res foliage, blurry textures and bad draw distance and poor LOD, which is not surprising, since it's an open world game.

Gears of War 4 was the only game that blew me away graphically.

I am not calling names, just pointing out the obvious, besides talking sense to a spammer and fanboy is completely pointless as you won't listen to reason anyway.

How's about next time you post screenshots from Naughty America so we can finally be rid of you.

I'd say GoW is number one followed by Horizon. I don't count David cage games because you don't play them.

God of War and Horizon look good, but not best of E3 good.

God Of Beard 4 was impressive - the touch of the giants face and lips contorting when falling is the sort of detail sorely lacking in pc games.

Having said that it was largely scripted shit - which is much easier to make impressive.

Detroit to me looks pretty amazing and is the game I'm most looking to play.

lol cows are their inferiority complex...

Its really not that pretty, I mean, I love good art styles and all, and ok it is subjective... but that artstyle is clearly held back by the hardware... it feels flat...

Seems to be a trend with all recent zelda games. flat, blurry .... just a shame really.

I'l give you an example of a game on the opposite end of that spectrum: Overwatch. Quite a clean style, but sharp, colourful and solid animations/models/animations textures to compliment it.

This Zelda.... reminds me of Twilight Princess .... just clearly cant be run well... and is completely compensating.

@iandizion713 said:

I think Zelda Breath of the Wild had best graphics. Im a fanboy for non-linear graphics.

So purdy.

@MBirdy88: I like Zeldas overall graphics much better, Overwatchs graphics are too linear and easy to pull off. Its easier to make the inside of a box prettier then it is to make a factory of boxes.

So what you're saying is it's the Witcher 3.

No, it's trying to be cheap rip off of Witcher 3 and UC2 with cinematic TPS. By the way, cows are still butthurt over Witcher 3 being received so well even though it's a multiplat. They just can't live with a fact that the series originated on the PC and it's latest installment released near Bloodborne and also won awards over it. lel.

What a disgusting bunch.

Gears 4 looks pretty damn good for a XB1 game. Zelda, definitely had the best artistry.

So it's witcher 3 with better combat and animations.

Sounds good.

Crysis 3...... oh wait.

Gears of War 4 is the best looking game, it goes beyond the cinematic 30fps of God of Suck and above the eyesore fidelity of Borizon: Zero Yawn.

It has no better combat. lel so much for that X-ray vision and every battle being a puzzle. lol another UC copy in a Far Cry style.

I see you are still butthurt by Witcher 3. Keep trying to downplay it.

Are you stupid?

wait, don't answer that. I already know the answer.

Sea of thieves.

No, I'm not a cow.

enjoy your cinematic TPS#34522165464 with robo dinosaurs.

Zelda looks marginally better than PS2 games...

DC2:

FF12

@arad96: Those games feature linear graphics. Zelda Breath of the Wild has non-linear graphics.

I can see The Witcher 3 being better than any PS4 exclusive is still causing severe cow butthurt, must've been the Xbox backing and marketing and PC origins. Oh and the PS4 melting trying to run the game.

From what I understand Horizon is also open world.

@ReadingRainbow4: Maybe, im not too familiar with that game, i only saw a peek of the gameplay.

I think we reach a point in gaming where graphix have stagnated... everything looks wonderful. Picking a winner is silly