Games with the most underrated graphics, this gen?

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#1 DivergeUnify
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Well yeah, get to it.

My personal picks are Metroid Prime 3 and Splinter Cell: Double Agent.

Metroid Prime 3 just looks so fantastic and Double Agent was quite impressive( African level/ character models anyone?). Only problem with DA was the terrible framerate :P

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#2 Newsboy
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Ratchet and Clank on the PS3.
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#3 foxhound_fox
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Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.
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#4 Vaasman
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The Darkness. Seriously.

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Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.foxhound_fox
Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!
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The Darkness. Seriously.

Vaasman
Eww, if the demo was any indication
[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.Newsboy
Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!

Dead Rising was impressive in the holy **** so many zombies kind of way :P
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[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.Newsboy
Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!

I thought dead rising had pretty good graphics considering all of those zombies on screen. Damn good graphics. The Darkness looks amazing with the demons coming out of you and ripping peoples hearts out, its just awesome, yup some good graphics there. I also think that Mario Galaxy had some wicked graphics considering it was on the Wii. I never thought a game could look like that on the Wii.

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#8 foxhound_fox
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Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!Newsboy

Have you played the game? It looks fantastic, has well over 200 zombies with individual AI on-screen all at one time all with their own physics with NO framerate drops whatsoever. Completely underrated... since they are not even mentioned.
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Zack and Wiki really is a gorgeous game.
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[QUOTE="Vaasman"]

The Darkness. Seriously.

DivergeUnify
Eww, if the demo was any indication
[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.Newsboy
Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!

Dead Rising was impressive in the holy **** so many zombies kind of way :P

I'm not gonna make it nice. Dead Rising is a hideous looking game.
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#11 foxhound_fox
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I'm not gonna make it nice. Dead Rising is a hideous looking game.Newsboy

Then I guess you haven't played many good looking games then.
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#12 Saturos3091
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The Darkness. Seriously.

Vaasman


Yes. Absolutely. Great graphics.
Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.foxhound_fox

Those too for the same reason.

And STALKER despite using a 4 year-old engine it looks great. Metroid Prime 3 looks awesome as well, mainly in motion. Just Cause has probably one of the furthest draw distances out there (and one of the biggest gameworlds out there), and looks incredibly good for a port of a last-gen game, and for the developers first game.
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#13 MuffinPunk
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Almost every game. Seriously people complain about game being ugly when in actuality almost every game this gen looks pretty spectacular IMO. Yeah some are better than others but thats not the point.
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GTA IV, Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dark Sector, R&C: ToD, Assassin's Creed, Viking, BioShock, Saints Row

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#15 Gator08
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[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"][QUOTE="Vaasman"]

The Darkness. Seriously.

Newsboy

Eww, if the demo was any indication
[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.Newsboy
Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!

Dead Rising was impressive in the holy **** so many zombies kind of way :P

I'm not gonna make it nice. Dead Rising is a hideous looking game.

Hideous!? What? Are you blind!? you must either have something against capcom/microsoft, or you have eye problems. Either that or you are just trolling which is most probable.

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#16 Newsboy
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[QUOTE="Newsboy"]Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!foxhound_fox

Have you played the game? It looks fantastic, has well over 200 zombies with individual AI on-screen all at one time all with their own physics with NO framerate drops whatsoever. Completely underrated... since they are not even mentioned.

Yes, I didn't buy it or rent it myself...I played it at a friends house on his 37" HDTV at 720p and it looked boxy with bad lighting and shading. Are you telling me it was all his TV and I should overlook that because 200 boxy zombies are on screen at once? Heavenly Sword did that to the Nth degree and still managed to look descent at the same time.
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#17 Newsboy
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[QUOTE="Newsboy"][QUOTE="DivergeUnify"][QUOTE="Vaasman"]

The Darkness. Seriously.

Gator08

Eww, if the demo was any indication
[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.Newsboy
Dead Rising? You couldn't be serious!

Dead Rising was impressive in the holy **** so many zombies kind of way :P

I'm not gonna make it nice. Dead Rising is a hideous looking game.

Hideous!? What? Are you blind!? you must either have something against capcom or microsoft, or or you have problems with your eyes. Either that or you are just trolling which is most probable.

Nope, I've been on these forums long enough to know better than to troll. This is my honest opinion of the game. Granted, it's been a while since I played it but I certainly remember thinking exactly this: "Is this really a next-gen game?"
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GTA IV, Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dark Sector, R&C: ToD, Assassin's Creed, Viking, BioShock, Saints Row

BioShockOwnz

Do you just post GTA4 for any thread asking about good aspects of games? GTA4's graphics aren't underrated, most people say they're fantastic.

I'm gonna genuinly disagree with Saints Row, though >.>

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Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Fantastic looking engine that runs extraordinarily well on the 360 with little performance issues.foxhound_fox
I don't see great graphics there, the art style is neat but it's not underrated. I do give it credit for having a thousand zombies on screen without hic-ups though.
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Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dark Sector, Viking

BioShockOwnz


Yes, yes, yes, and yes. They all have great graphics for what they try to do. The others aren't necessarily underrated graphically but they do have fairly decent graphics (other than Saints Row's which were okay).
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#21 BioShockOwnz
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[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

GTA IV, Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dark Sector, R&C: ToD, Assassin's Creed, Viking, BioShock, Saints Row

DivergeUnify

Do you just post GTA4 for any thread asking about good aspects of games? GTA4's graphics aren't underrated, most people say they're fantastic.

I'm gonna genuinly disagree with Saints Row, though >.>

A lot of people have trashed its visuals. Are you offended that I am a fan of the game and speak highly of it? Sorry, but I'll continue to do so, because it's received a bum rap. Also, I hate Saints Row, so I am not going to state something that's inaccurate over a game I'm not even a fan of. It was a fantastic looking sandbox game when I played it.

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#22 Gator08
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I will admit that it isn't close to the best looking game out today, but damn, to say that its hideous is just ignorant.

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#23 FerdMertz
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Dead Rising and Lost Planet were good calls. DR would be absolutely stunning if the zombies looked a little bit better.......seems like they had to cut a corner due to the volume of them. Ninja Gaiden 2's graphics take a lot of flack based on a few bland looking sections. For the most part it looks pretty sick. DOA4 is a good looking game to this day even though when it released a lot of people said it wasn't a very big leap from DOAU.
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#24 BioShockOwnz
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Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dark Sector, Viking

Saturos3091



Yes, yes, yes, and yes. They all have great graphics for what they try to do. The others aren't necessarily underrated graphically but they do have fairly decent graphics (other than Saints Row's which were okay).

I was really surprised by Viking when I played it. Its world looks a lot like Fable, but much more prettier.

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#25 MuffinPunk
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In action Dead Rising is really beautiful. I hated all other aspects of the game though. ******* otis!!
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#26 club-sandwich
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The Darkness. Seriously.

Vaasman
that and Dead Rising.
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#27 Newsboy
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I will admit that it isn't close to the best looking game out today, but damn, to say that its hideous is just ignorant.

Gator08
Look at the textures, look at the shading, look at the lighting...I'll admit the stills look worse than the game but c'mon, if hideous is the wrong word it's not far off. All of you who are impressed by the sheer number of zombies are entitled to be wowed by that but personally, I don't care how many ugly polygons you fit on a screen, they're still gonna be ugly polygons.
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#28 Saturos3091
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[QUOTE="Saturos3091"][QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dark Sector, Viking

BioShockOwnz



Yes, yes, yes, and yes. They all have great graphics for what they try to do. The others aren't necessarily underrated graphically but they do have fairly decent graphics (other than Saints Row's which were okay).

I was really surprised by Viking when I played it. Its world looks a lot like Fable, but much more prettier.



Yeah me too. First thoughts that popped into my head were "Fable?" and "that water looks amazing. Time to swim." The game isn't nearly as bad as GS makes it out to be, but it certainly has it's flaws. The amount of enemies on screen is impressive for the graphics it has.
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#30 DivergeUnify
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[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"][QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

GTA IV, Crackdown, Dead Rising, Dark Sector, R&C: ToD, Assassin's Creed, Viking, BioShock, Saints Row

BioShockOwnz

Do you just post GTA4 for any thread asking about good aspects of games? GTA4's graphics aren't underrated, most people say they're fantastic.

I'm gonna genuinly disagree with Saints Row, though >.>

A lot of people have trashed its visuals. Are you offended that I am a fan of the game and speak highly of it? Sorry, but I'll continue to do so, because it's received a bum rap. Also, I hate Saints Row, so I am not going to state something that's inaccurate over a game I'm not even a fan of. It was a fantastic looking sandbox game when I played it.

I'm not offended, I'm baffled.
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#31 Gator08
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[QUOTE="Gator08"]

I will admit that it isn't close to the best looking game out today, but damn, to say that its hideous is just ignorant.

Newsboy

Look at the textures, look at the shading, look at the lighting...I'll admit the stills look worse than the game but c'mon, if hideous is the wrong word it's not far off. All of you who are impressed by the sheer number of zombies are entitled to be wowed by that but personally, I don't care how many ugly polygons you fit on a screen, they're still gonna be ugly polygons.

Wow, are you new to gaming or something? Peoples standards are really high this gen for some reason, its ridiculous! What do you do for games? just sit on a PC and replay Crysis over and over again? Why did you even bother buying a Wii? By your standards all of the games on the Wii look below "hideous".

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Like I said, the zombies lack some detail, but the background to this day are some of the cleanest most detailed you'll find. Don't get me wrong there are plenty of games that smoke DR overall, but the graphics are impressive before factoring in the rediculous amount of characters on screen.
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#33 DivergeUnify
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Like I said, the zombies lack some detail, but the background to this day are some of the cleanest most detailed you'll find. Don't get me wrong there are plenty of games that smoke DR overall, but the graphics are impressive before factoring in the ridiculous amount of characters on screen. FerdMertz

Seriously http://www.gametrailers.com/player/12269.html. All that looks pretty good to me... Hideous? I'm wtfpwned

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#34 Popadophalis
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Zack & Wiki. The game looks fantastic.
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#35 zxvb
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Guild Wars was a beauty for 2k4 when it came out (or was it 2k5, i cant remember).

anyway, i dont think LOTRO (lord of the rings online) or the witcher get enough credit. beautiful art.

also, for a launch game, COD 2 really holds up.

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Zack & Wiki. The game looks fantastic.Popadophalis

I agree. So what it wasn't the best on a technical level? The art style was interesting.

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#38 keepereio
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The Darkness. Seriously.

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yeah that game looked very good.

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Ratchet and Clank on the PS3.Newsboy

Big time, everyone over looks this games graphics.

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#40 Roushrsh
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[QUOTE="Vaasman"]

The Darkness. Seriously.

keepereio

yeah that game looked very good.

I just beat it, I think the graphics were alright...

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#41 Tauruslink
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Mass Effect.
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#42 Snowboarder99
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Um even though it's not really talked about, Civilization Revolution. I think it's a nice looking game
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#43 godofwar2610
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Maybe Resistance? Character models were pretty good...
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#44 -Jiggles-
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Halo 3 is constantly ripped on for having sub-par graphics, but I thought they looked pretty damn good. :|

Maybe my eyes are broken.

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#45 youmademyday
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DiRT most realistic images ive seen in a racing game
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#46 Snowboarder99
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Halo 3 is constantly ripped on for having sub-par graphics, but I thought they looked pretty damn good. :|

Maybe my eyes are broken.

-Jiggles-

Na, I think it's a beautiful game

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Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Zack & Wiki, Lost Winds
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#48 Gator08
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Halo 3 is constantly ripped on for having sub-par graphics, but I thought they looked pretty damn good. :|

Maybe my eyes are broken.

-Jiggles-

Yea, I agree. The textures are amazing and so are the water effects. The lighting is also phenomenal. I don't know why it gets ripped on for having bad graphics. Maybe people think its too colourful?

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#49 Lab392
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I've always thought Motorstorm looks better than most people give it credit for. The same goes for Halo 3.
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#50 Evz0rz
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R&C ToD, Halo 3