Games With The Best Draw Distance (56k)

Heavenly Sword.

Chutebox

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Kameo still impreses me till this day

These screens arent very good representations. Theres also Blue Dragon which i thought had good draw distance.

Majoras Mask, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess were all very good especially considering the hardware. The jump from the draw distance in OOT to MM was almost a generation leap.

mayceV

Empire: Total War told me that is small time.

Demon's Souls have a great draw distance, I hope I could play a similar game on PC :(

These pictures don't do the game justice, there is this view in the first level, the castle, where you get to see the gate & the castle from a great distance before fighting with the knight with the long sword(forgot the name). Awesome view! couldn't find a picture of it though.

abuabed

Truely I was always blown away by Demon's Souls scale, but GoW 3 looks to beat it.

Warhawk. You can snipe from one end of the map to the other and those are huge maps and unlike a lot of the games here, there is no pop up in warhawk and it's amazing to zip from one end of the map to another in a sec using the Warhawk. Not many of these games allow you to cross the map that fast. Sure Warhawk was lacking in a lot of the other graphical areas but in terms of draw distance, it's among the best

[QUOTE="GhoX"][QUOTE="inertk"] Sorry, you didn't actually present anything to back up what you were saying so I thought I'd retort on equal footing. I guess I'll go first. http://www.tweakguides.com/images/BF2_10a.jpg http://www.tweakguides.com/images/BF2_10b.jpg http://www.tweakguides.com/images/BF2_10c.jpg If I change the view distance on Battlefield 2, the game will only render up to a certain distance. Anything outside of that distance will be a misty fog, because it isn't being rendered -- because I reduced the draw distance. This is true regardless of whether or not I as a player can traverse the area. Hell, why not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw_distance

"Draw distance is a computer graphics term, defined as the distance in a three dimensional scene that is still drawn by the rendering engine. Polygons that lie behind the draw distance won't be drawn to the screen.inertk

you dont seem to understand....what you see in games like UC2 and Halo 3 in the backround isnt being rendered at all. Its known as a Skybox

By the way, Fallout 3 has nice draw distance. I found these from another thread about draw distance.

*Shot from Fallout 3*

GhoX

This. Getting on top of the Satcom Arrays in the North of the Wasteland and looking across the entire map looks great

AC

quake 2..it has no pop in.

Seems like most games have really good draw distance this gen...Couth_

quake 2..it has no pop in.

yoyofroyoyoyo

fine ill be the one to do it crysis is awesome and wow if you set your distance to max can look amazing

im actually the little guy north of the red flag thats how much you can see.

wow if you set your distance to max can look amazing

JetB1ackNewYear

Crane Operator: Shadow of the Operator

If you want to see a great good distance this is the game for you.

Delta Force 1 and 2

Sry for the bad pic.

lucky_star

Yeah those games were very ahead of their times. Full open levels, massive draw distances. They were pretty awesome. To bad the AI was bad and the graphics weren't much better :P

Anyways my vote goes to ArmA 2.

Project Reality on BF2.

@Cobrax

So in the UC2 screenshot, that mountain in the background is part of the skybox, or the entire town is? Or even just using my Battlefield example, where you'll be unable to see the ground flying high enough in a plane? I know what skybox is.

[QUOTE="LookAnDrolL"][QUOTE="inertk"] No it isn't. inertk

"Draw distance is a computer graphics term, defined as the distance in a three dimensional scene that is still drawn by the rendering engine. Polygons that lie behind the draw distance won't be drawn to the screen.

Thanks for proving my point!

I'm surprised nobody yet said Shadow of the Colossus.jalexbrown

Edit:LookanDroll, please highlight the specific areas in the Battlefield 2 pictures I posted which display either 2D backgrounds, or a backdrop/skybox masquerading as a 3D environment.

Assassin's creed 2

well i guess ill just post the obvious

Killzone 2 has a great draw distance

Heres a treat for you posters 8)

I have nothing to add, but those screens of Just Cause 2 have me totally stoked.

Demon's Souls have a great draw distance, I hope I could play a similar game on PC :(

These pictures don't do the game justice, there is this view in the first level, the castle, where you get to see the gate & the castle from a great distance before fighting with the knight with the long sword(forgot the name). Awesome view! couldn't find a picture of it though.

abuabed

Twilight Princess had excellent draw distance.

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Demon's Souls have a great draw distance, I hope I could play a similar game on PC :(

These pictures don't do the game justice, there is this view in the first level, the castle, where you get to see the gate & the castle from a great distance before fighting with the knight with the long sword(forgot the name). Awesome view! couldn't find a picture of it though.

Nerd_Man

I can't believe no one has mentioned the Uncharted series. Easily the best IMO.

I can't find a picture of chapter 2's city but look from the top of that building and you will be amazed! It's gorgeous!

Blazerdt47

The draw distance in UC2 isn't anything to write home about. As beautiful as the backgrounds may be, draw distance implies you can reach said distance rather than just see it.

I think we should make a couple rules for this thread.

1. Can't count games with serious pop-up issues (sorry Oblivion, Fallout, GTA)

2. You must be able to reach those beautiful vistas (i.e. thread is about drawdistance not skyboxes) so there goes Uncharted, etc.

Just Cause does really good with its Draw Distance.

Other mentions are Fallout 3, GTA4, and ArmA 2.

I think we should make a couple rules for this thread.

1. Can't count games with serious pop-up issues (sorry Oblivion, Fallout, GTA)

2. You must be able to reach those beautiful vistas (i.e. thread is about drawdistance not skyboxes) so there goes Uncharted, etc.

jyoung312

Well it wouldn't be The Saboteur, thats for sure:P I was playing it yesterday, and after getting so far away, buildings start to look like really bad cardboard cutouts

So blurry!

Uh yea, I'll go with the likes of Assassins creed(1/2) or crysis in a sense.

Yoshi's Island:

:P

Doesn't this depend on how big your tv is? I can draw quite far across MGS4 with a sharpie.

Well it wouldn't be The Saboteur, thats for sure:P I was playing it yesterday, and after getting so far away, buildings start to look like really bad cardboard cutouts

So blurry!

Anjunaddict

Sorry buy Spiderman 3 on Wii wins the award for worst draw distance by an absolute mile:

Flight Simulator X

Flight Simulator X

jun_aka_pekto

Forgot about that game.
The battle simulator was a lot of fun.Me and my brother did a 60 minute mission,to blow up a train.It failed,I was flying too low and got hit by my brother dropping clusterbombs on me.

Lto_thaG

I have those* too. But, I do like to simulate VFR training sometimes.

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Combat Flight Simulator 2

Combat Flight Simulator 3

IL2/Forgotten Battles/Pacific Fighters

Jane's USAF

LOMAC

Um... the guy who posted the Killzone 2 pictures - that's a pretty poor draw distance. :? I think draw distance is the one thing Killzone 2 wasn't hot at. Ninja-Bear