Which game make you go "WOW" on looks alone, Soul Calibur on DC, on a

Looks alone don't really do much for me, although I had a similar feeling with Super Mario 64.

The most recent " OMFG, This is ****** real!!!1! O_O " moment I got was when i first walked into Hyrule Field in Zelda TP and saw the twilight.

Also the The 4th mission in Splinter Cell on X360 had some of the most beautiful scenery in any game.

As for last gen, I had a few "wow" moments in Metroid Prime, Okami and Wind waker, but none were as memorable as SOTC.

The Whole game was basically a " :shock:"moment that lasted 13 hours.

 BTW All I got from Gears of War was a "meh".The character designs, artstlyle and nearly everything else about it dissapointed me, even the cover system was done better in R6.

Gears of War

Dead Rising

In Oblivion when I first exited the imperial sewers and saw the landscape. And also when I was riding through the forest with my horse for the first time. And in Gears (I think it's Mission 3) where it's dark and raining/thundering outside, it looked pretty amazing.Baird-06

sonic the hedgehog on genesis was my first

mario 64 was the biggest "wow" moment for me

honorable mentions include metroid prime and gears of war

Super Mario Bros. for the NES. I had played the ColecoVision like mad, and the NES was my next system. I had never played a game like it before. it was colorful, sharp, and fast.

Kid Chameleon on the Genny. I remember playing it on a demo unit in a BJ's - I was blown away. When I got the samurai helmet and started slashing away I thought to myself "I need one of these."

Several games in the arcades... SFII, the original Mortal Kombat (at the time I thought they looked nearly like photo-realistic people,) Metal Slug (looked like a moving cartoon at the time,) Virtua Cop, the original Virtua Fighter (HOLY $%&# IT'S 3D!), etc.

Super Mario World. I remember it looking so much "smoother" and more colorful than my favorite Genny games.

Soul Calibur for the DC.

Halo for the Xbox. I remember being extremely impressed with the overall look, especially the sharp look of textures up close (like grass, tree bark, etc.)

The original Doom. It impressed me much more than Wolfenstein 3D did earlier. The world was so much more breathing and insanely sinister. The music and enemy sounds were dark and frightning, there were cascading stairs and platforms giving entire world had a different depth to it I had never experienced in a video game before. It was like touring Hell itself.

The original Quake on the PC.

The original unreal on the PC.

Half Life on the PC.

Gears of War.

I first got my PS2 in 2002. Along with it I got Metal Gear Solid 2, Gran Turismo 3 and of course the demo disc in the bottom of the box. I fired up MGS2 first, and was stunned by the rain effects on the tanker and the small details in the plant like lice infestations. The water is still incredible even today too. Then came GT3, which was gob-smacking. It looked photo-real at the time. Plus another game which I loved was Klonoa 2 on the demo disc. Cel-shading was something I had never seen on PS1 apart from in Fear Effect, but this was next-gen and that was only a gimmick effect.

Those games made me go wow.

from the most wowzerest the first time I saw it to the just wow...

The first two stand are above all others on wowness!

1. MGS2 Sons of Liberty (PS2)

2. Splinter Cell CT (xbox)

3. Sonic Adventure (DC)

4. GT3 (PS2)

5. MGS 3 (PS2)

6. Jack and Daxter (PS2)

7. Ace Combat (PS2)

8. DOA2 (DC)

9. Shenmue (DC)

10. Super Mario World (Snes)

Okami and Soul Calibur.

mine was splinter cell chaos theory on the xbox,that was the best graphics i've ever seen,and i was saying wow alot. mlbslugger86

I agree, the graphics in that game is rediclous.  I was like, :o "How in the world are next gen graphics supposed to look better than this?"  Much to my surprize, at this point...not much has.  This would have been my nuber one pick if it hadn't been for how unimpressive the actually in game interaction, movement of the characters, surrounding environment effects were. 

In sheer graphics CT dose win, but when incorperating a realistic experience from the movement of characters, to the water dripping of you cloths...after you've just left a rainy environment, to some of the most beautiful particle effects ever seen to express the sheer ferousity of an explosion...MGS2 is still by far the most impressive and "wow" extracting game I've ever played.   

Mario on the NES (duh)

Zelda on the SNES

Sonic 2 on the Genesis

Ridge Racer for the PSone

Sonic Adventure for the DC

Tekken Tag Tournament for the PS2

Rallisport Challenge for the Xbox

Rouge Squadron II for the GC

Dead Rising for the 360

Motorstorm for the PS3

Those were the wow games that sold those systems for me. I never saw a Saturn, N64 or Wii (yet) game that I absolutely had to have.