Best Looking Games to Run on my New Rig?

[venk]

I recently put together a Barton 2500+/9800 Pro system and now I want to put it through it's paces by picking up some great looking games to play on it. I'm going to pipck up Unreal 2 Tommorow, so are there any other recomendations? Are there any crappy, but otherwise great looking, games that have playable demos out?

 

[Matthias99]

Max Payne 2 looks pretty good. It's also fun, and has a demo you can download with a couple of levels.

Star Wars: KOTOR -- also pretty flashy. It's definitely enough to make the 9800Pro choke if you turn up AA and AF and have all the details on.

Tron 2.0 has a really neat visual look with all its pixel shader effects, but it's less graphically intensive.

Need For Speed: Underground is supposed to look pretty good. I tried the demo and it didn't blow me away, but if you're into that whole "cover your car with neon lights" thing...

 

[Jack4KickAss]

Here's a few recommendations :

Call of duty
Lock On - Flight simulator with some issues, but great graphics
Star Wars - KOTOR (no demo, I know of)
Prince of persia
Even Railroad tycoon 3 got very goog graphics.

Must say most of the games release lately have pretty good graphics.

All of these games have got playable demos except KOTOR, not sure about PoP.

Enjoy your new Rig.

 

[videoclone]

Battle Field 1942 with Desert Combat Mod 6.0 is awsome check out the Mod and pics at this site

Desert Combat Web Site

 

[Corporate Thug]

deus ex IW

 

[McArra]

ATI's Chimp demo.

 

[NicColt]

Unreal 2 has some good eye candy in it.

 

[BenSkywalker]

Mafia, although it isn't a crappy game unfortunately so it doesn't quite match what you are looking for(it's actually very good). Killer visuals, and there is a demo available but IIRC it uses cut down textures and is seriously restricted versus the full version(you can't explore the huge city).

 

[sugarkang]

NFS:U is great when you're going thru chinatown.
WOW!

 

[Whitedog]

I also have a similar setup. Though I'll maintain that eye candy is only 10~20% of a game. I've played (tried out) countless games with Great graphics over the years but due to the lack of other elements that make a game good~great, the game went on the shelf after about 1~2 hours play.

80% of your game searching should be for something that's "fun" to play. The other 20% should be for the eye candy.

I enjoyed Gothic 2, though the engine is a bit dated.

DX2 looks good, though I haven't resolved an issue with the "spots" yet. I think that game was designed for GeForce cards being it flashes an nVidia logo when you start the game.

Like one other person said, pretty much any new game you buy is going to look pretty good. So I'd be doing more research of if a game is "fun" or not in making my decision to buy or not.

Cheers.

 

[CJP]

The game XIII has pretty unique graphics with the cell shaded tech. It's not graphically amazing but it's different so the demo is worth the download.

 

[robcy]

IL-2 Forgotten Battles, turn up the eye candy, and fly over water while in a quick battle 16x13 with AI at expert. Its a really cool game.

Halo/Lock On/NFS:U are also nice

 

[Regs]

Breakthrough is pretty intensive. Actually, I think it needs a performance patch.

Play Max Payne 2 with 4xAA, 1280x900 or 1280x1024, High Details, and you'll witness some pretty cool graphics. With that set up, I doubt you'll see much of a slow down.

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: Whitedog

DX2 looks good, though I haven't resolved an issue with the "spots" yet.

use multisampling or bloom, not both.


as pretty game demos, try uru.

 

[Vonkhan]

UT2K3

 

[Richdog]

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
Mafia, although it isn't a crappy game unfortunately so it doesn't quite match what you are looking for(it's actually very good). Killer visuals, and there is a demo available but IIRC it uses cut down textures and is seriously restricted versus the full version(you can't explore the huge city).

I second Mafia, it's ojne of the best games I have ever played, truly cinematic and almost like playing a movie.

Max Payne 2 will look great with max details and runs flawlessly at 1024*768 6xAA 8xAF on my rig.

Call Of Duty is also jaw-dropping, and will push your system pretty heavily.

Halo runs like a dog on anything less than a Kray Supercomputer but looks pretty good.

Those are the only ones that spring to mind withing the 20 seconds it took me to write this post.:beer: