Games with cool graphics on PC. The most realistic graphics in the game
Good day, friends!
Everyone loves to play games with cool graphics, this is a given, of course, if the graphics also have a good plot. Technologies are developing at such a speed that you don’t even have time to be surprised. I remember I was happy with the graphics in The Witcher 3; at that time it seemed to me the limit of possibilities. Well, maybe that was the case at that time, I don’t know.
But, friends, 2018 is simply packed to capacity with games with good graphics. Not just good, but great! I wrote about all the 2018 games on PS4, you can follow the link and read them all. This list also includes games not only for the console.
Yes, 2017 has already pleased us with cool graphics in games:
Forza Motorsport 7;
Horizon: Zero Dawn.
These games showed what modern 3D engines are capable of. But that was last year, and 2018 already has surprises in store that will be cooler.
Top games with good graphics
This article contains the most beautiful and impressive games of this year. When selecting the top, the emphasis was placed not only on realism, but also on artistic style.
The general list did not include Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Days Gone and The Crew 2, they fell slightly short, but it is simply impossible not to mention them here.
This line of games has to be given its due, but Metro: Exodus is the bomb! From the very first game scenes shown at E3 2017, it became clear: here it is, real graphics for a shooter!
Lighting effects and environment made amazingly and very realistic. Metro: Exodus will be released in autumn 2018.
This is a very interesting action game, the events of which take place in an alternative 19th century (already intriguing, isn’t it?). Back at E3 2017, Crytek announced that Showdown uses a cooperative principle like Evolve, which, in fact, allows you to shoot monsters as a team.
But that's not the point; Hunt: Showdown impresses with its graphics. Especially lighting effects. The game can definitely be included in the list of games with good graphics in 2018.
We have already seen the Frostbyte engine in Battlefield 1; the whole post-apocalyptic atmosphere and battle scenes are based on it. Plus, Anthem also uses DICE, which is perhaps why the game impresses with its magnificent animation and beautiful landscapes already in the first trailer.
The long-awaited game, developed specifically for the PlayStation 4, will be released at the end of May 2018. Once you watch the trailer, you'll understand why Detroit: Become Human is considered the game with the best graphics: the animation is simply off the charts!
Another game with a lot of expectations. It “torn” everyone even when it was announced at E3 2017, which, however, is not surprising, look at the game scenes and how they were made!
What is under the hood of this game is not yet 100 percent known, we need to wait for the fall and its release.
Kratos celebrated his return to Playstation in April 2018. In a new adventure, the Spartans head north.
What's amazing about God of War? First of all, the facial expressions of the characters, the landscapes (so much atmosphere there!) and, of course, the grotesque appearance of the opponents.
This western with awesome graphics! Look at the trailer for the game, or screenshots. Do you see how the world around us is designed? What light and what shadows! What detail! No, I'm definitely delighted.
All this magnificence is made using the built-in RAGE Engine, which was last used in GTA 5.
Available for PS4 and Xbox One Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released this fall. However, this is all tentative for now, since the release has already been delayed.
In this game, in terms of graphics, the developers want to surpass previous projects, for example, Uncharted 4, and it is very good.
The game's engine continues to evolve, providing gorgeous character animations, impressive lighting, and realism. The game is definitely worthy of your attention.
I deliberately postponed this game “for later”, since it looks strange on the list of games with the best graphics for 2018. But this is only at first glance.
Yes, this is a pixelated post-apocalyptic platformer based on the Unity engine, but it is made completely differently than the games above. But take a closer look at how the graphics are designed.
Amazingly detailed and subtle. This is a special view of artists on pixel animation. No, The Last Night definitely deserves a place on this list.
What else to play in 2018
As I said above, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Days Gone and The Crew 2 fell just short of being included in the list, but they are also very, very good in terms of graphics. You know, in general, most of games of 2018 are made perfectly. I can suggest, in addition to these three, a couple more that may please you (both in plot and graphics):
Far Cry 5. It was a highly anticipated game. Bright and daring, besides, where else can you heartily chase sectarians, if not in the fifth Far Land?
A Way Out, of course, is far from being the game of the year, but you can take a closer look at it. The plot is quite banal, but the gaming capabilities make it more interesting, or something.
Vampyr. We are promised a non-linear game where main character, as you understand... doctor. And yes, he is a vampire. But he is, first of all, a doctor! In general, you will decide for yourself whether to devour everyone or cure them.
Crackdown 3- the most action-packed action movie ever. The graphics are nothing at all.
Biomutant- an open world game, at least that’s how the developers position it. Officially, it’s kind of like a post-apocalypse, where technology closely coexists with all sorts of bioengineering. You will play... a raccoon (well, or someone very much like him))), who walks on his hind legs, wields bladed weapons and firearms, and fights very well.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance- very realistic (especially in combat techniques) and cool. A huge number of options for completing quests, well-developed characters and dialogues on the CryEngine 4 engine look very attractive.
Days Gone- an open post-apocalyptic zombie world. Of course, the topic is very hackneyed, but the developers promise interesting game with good graphics and adventure. Judging by the fact that Days Gone is one of the most anticipated games of this year, it will be so.
The Crew 2. The first part of this game somehow didn’t go very well, there were some shortcomings. In the second part, we were promised to correct the omissions, add new vehicles (motorcycles, boats, planes) to make a real MMO racing. We wait.
I guess I'll stop here. The top games with good graphics have been compiled, simpler alternatives are also shown, you can bow out =)
Have a nice game, friends! See you.
Graphics are not the most important thing. In general, the expression is correct, but there is something subtly hypocritical in it, approximately as in the statement “In a girl, one must first of all value intelligence.” Let's be honest: the visual aspect is extremely important, even if you are not a graphic designer..., in general, a convinced graphics connoisseur. In this material, Gmbox invites you to remember 10 iconic games that literally killed with their unparalleled visuals, and here you will find both cult classics and fresh hits.
10. Duke Nukem 3D
Before Duke, all 3D shooters shoved the protagonist into some closed space - be it a laboratory on a distant planet and hell (Doom), or medieval catacombs (Heretic, Hexen). Duke Nukem 3D was the first to create a very believable - for those times! - a modern metropolis. Shops, cinemas, skyscrapers, strippers that could be sprinkled with bucks, toilets that could be broken with your feet - Duke offered a rich selection of possibilities in perfect visual execution. You could even “break” the stripper with your foot - it’s a pity that the option of sprinkling dollars on the toilet was not provided...
9.Quake
But Duke Nukem 3D had one glaring drawback: sprite-based enemies. When colliding at one level, they still looked tolerable, but when viewed from the top shelf, the model terribly tilted back. Oldfags clearly remember this shameful farce. But compared to its background, Quake was a real revelation: for the first time in the history of game development - completely three-dimensional mobs made of flesh and blood, and not some robots! Accordingly, the dismemberment in honest 3D became a real work of art: a direct hit from a grenade launcher on an ogre with a chainsaw would not be a shame to write to Vereshchagin himself.
8. Crisis
I remember this moment very well in 2007: one friend bought a powerful PC for working with sound, and he didn’t skimp on the video card. Yes, “work with sound” was going on, but in free time the mini-tower was loaded with Crysis. Having seen the gameplay for the first time, I was sure for about a minute and a half that this was a pre-rendered video, until the revelation hit me like thunder: the keyboard/mouse manipulations coincided with what was happening on the screen! I am sure that everyone has their own (no less reverent) story of acquaintance with Crysis, and no one will argue: in the modern (post-2000s) history of game development, this is the most important breakthrough in terms of graphics quality.
7.Grand Theft Auto IV
The immortal GTA III could also be at this point: after all, the transition from 2D to 3D is an invaluable achievement. However, this is still GTA IV. In the third part, despite all its achievements, there were rather primitive graphics - something from the category of early cubism. It seemed that the developers simply moved the camera behind the back, without changing anything aesthetically since the 2nd part. At the same time, Grand Theft Auto IV was the first in the history of the gaming industry to create an absolutely believable metropolis - one that Duke Nukem could only dream of.
6. Arma 3
Want to know the main indicator of the highest quality graphics of this Czech franchise? When various TV channels (regardless of the country) urgently need to find a picture of modern military operations, this picture, as a rule, turns out to be a screenshot from Arma 3. Already 5 years have passed, but this hyper-realistic military simulator (it’s hard to call Arma with the banal word “shooter”) still not everyone can do it graphic settings ultra. There’s no point in talking about porting to consoles: of course, Arma is not there. They won't pull it.
5. The Witcher 3
There are memes about a couple of independent slavs - “several independent Slavs.” The memes, let me emphasize right away, are flattering, not offensive. Some mind-blowing screenshot from the third “The Witcher” is taken, and next to it is placed a mediocre picture, say, from Mass Effect: Andromeda. The inscription says that the first is from a couple of independent Slavs, and the second is from a huge studio with a fantastic budget. Of course, by the time work on the third part began, CD Projekt had grown four times, but this is still not on the scale of the Activision - EA - Ubisoft trio. So the graphics in the third “The Witcher” are, in any case, a feat of the Poles.
4. Forza Horizon 3
It would seem that making good graphics in a racing simulator could not be easier: ideally balance the number of objects along the ring so that everything is beautiful and does not slow down, and voila! All is ready. But what if there is no trace of a “ring”? If every wrong turn leads you to jungles, sandy beaches, waterfalls, suburbs and big cities? The creators of Forza Horizon 3 achieved their goal: the world is completely seamless, gigantic and at the same time incredibly beautiful. We take off our hats, like Nikita Sergeevich.
3. Far Cry 5
This Ubisoft franchise has always amazed us with its graphic quality. It’s not for nothing that they bought it from the legendary Crytek (Crysis): the Dunia engine on which Far Cry is compiled is probably a modification of the German engine. By the fifth part, Dunya has blossomed in an incredible way: on good technology with a 4K display, you will think that you have really found yourself in the American outback. Squint your eyes. Now squint a little more. This is almost photorealism. At least in 5-6 years, Ubisoft will definitely achieve it. In the meantime, let's enjoy the reflection of the sky in the 4K lakes of Montana.
2. The Last of Us (original on PS3)
Just one question: how? How was it possible to squeeze such a picture out of an antediluvian PS3, since its maximum resolution is only 720p? However, Naughty Dog was able to do it. HD (not even Full HD!) the picture never disintegrated into squares and did not look like a shameful soap. On the contrary, it was a real visual masterpiece. Apparently, in that distant era there was no need to pay close attention to same-sex love, so the developers concentrated on optimization and image quality. The original The Last of Us became the real swan song of the PlayStation 3, after which it was no longer a pity to send the frankly outdated box to the mezzanine.
1. Horizon: Zero Dawn
Naughty Dog spent their entire lives honing their skills on Uncharted, but then the Guerilla guerrillas appeared out of nowhere. They, in turn, devoted their entire career to the dark industrial shooter Killzone. And then comes the surprise of Horizon, with its four climate zones and breathtaking landscapes. Nature, which had long ago conquered the remains of the former greatness of humanity, looked incomparable, and the mechanical dinosaurs (especially the larger ones) amazed the imagination. It's a shame that a sequel hasn't been announced yet, but it definitely needs to happen. Horizon can't be one game - it's more like a three-part franchise.
The computing power of today's gaming systems allows developers to create real miracles. But some 20 years ago everyone dropped their jaws to the floor because of the picture of the original Quake! In general, the notorious “graphene” is now a universal measure of the quality of almost any game: gamers like technologically advanced projects in which the shadows fall evenly, and the circles scatter in the water according to physics, and so that that vase in the far corner of the room, in which even You can’t go in, there were no “ladders” at the throat. The developers realized this, and therefore, in many AAA projects, stupid scripts, annoying music, faceless and spineless characters, or simple gameplay began to appear, which are reliably plastered with a good layer of 4K textures, advanced physics and ultra shaders, which sometimes make you want to scream. But some truly justify their graphicness, and that’s what we’ll talk about today. Here are the top 10 games that will load your video card to its limits.
Halo 5: Guardians (XONE)
343 Industries, 2015
The latest installation in the series about the adventures of a galaxy-famous Spartan has a good plot, but what primarily attracts attention is its chic graphic design. And this is logical, because the series is famous not only for its deep and detailed universe, but also for its high level of technology. The story cutscenes running on the game engine look simply impressive, and the game itself is a little inferior in terms of detail and level of polish, but the difference is so insignificant that you don’t even notice it. Especially when everything is racing at 60 frames per second.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux (PC, PS4)
The Astronauts, 2015
This forest walk simulator was created on Unreal Engine 4, which allowed the developers to create a beautiful and highly detailed world with simply fantastic drawing distance and picturesque panorama, which, despite its visual splendor, still harbors a piece of a dark and frightening atmosphere. Something sinister is clearly hidden behind the marvelous facade, and wandering through the forest, riding an old tram and rummaging through the rubbish of dilapidated houses of an abandoned village, thanks to realistic graphics, you are immersed in this world headlong.
Forza Horizon 3 (PC, XONE)
Playground Games, 2016
One of the most beautiful racing games of the current generation, which perfectly demonstrates the possibilities Xbox consoles One - Forza Horizon 3. The game takes place in Australia, and the artists from Playground and Turn 10 were able to very convincingly convey all the beauty of this continent, with its dry deserts, dense jungles and cozy towns. Not to mention the weather effects, physics model and simply stunning coastal sunsets.
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PC, PS4, XONE)
CD Projekt RED, 2015
CD Projekt RED, the authors of the already legendary Witcher trilogy, wrote their own engine during the development process, called REDEngine. " Wild Hunt"looks infinitely beautiful with its mysterious backwaters, snow-capped mountain peaks, tiny villages and picturesque thickets. And reverent attention to even the smallest details, beautiful special effects of spells, water physics and other barely noticeable, but so important for immersion little things, make the world truly alive.
Battlefield 1 (PC, PS4, XONE)
EA DICE, 2016
DICE games have always looked great (thanks, Frostbite Engine), but this first-person action game set during World War I raises the bar even higher than usual. Dirty trenches, sun-scorched deserts and dense forests; menacing tanks, terrifying armored trains and huge airships - it’s as if you really are on the front line and the outcome of the war can depend on your every step. For complete immersion, you can completely disable the interface.
Batman: Arkham Knight (PC, PS4, XONE)
Rocksteady Studios, 2015
Despite a very tough start, associated with hundreds of angry reviews from owners of the broken PC version, and even a halt in sales on Steam, this story about a crime fighter in tight latex was remembered by many. The transition of Bats from one generation of gaming systems to another gave developers access to significantly greater computing power, which, as in the case of Assassin's Creed, for example, made it possible to create a larger and more detailed world that was fully able to convey the dark tone of a world mired in crime and the lawlessness of Arkham.And all the visual power of the game is demonstrated by the size of Batman's carriage, which takes up 160 gigabytes on your hard drive.
Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4)
Guerilla Games, 2017
This is an amazingly beautiful game set in the distant future, where people share their world with various robots. Guerilla Games has been working with the hardware of Sony consoles for a long time, so it was not difficult for them to create a stunning 4K world with flora and fauna previously unseen in any game - a kind of symbiosis of primitiveness and post-apocalypse. Well, all these brilliant cyberbeasts, which you can watch for hours, discourage German game makers from releasing another simulator of hunting poor wild boars - here it’s much more fun to do it.
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4)
Naughty Dog, 2016
Sometimes it seems that Uncharted 4 uses the resources of the PS4 at 100 percent and even finds some hidden reserves of the system that even the company's engineers were not aware of. There is no other way to explain how the game even manages to work with all that level of insane detail in almost every cobblestone. Textures, work with light and shadows, special effects, physics - everything in this game is done at a phenomenal level. Now we are waiting for Naughty Dog to not let us down with the Crash Bandicoot remaster - these components are no less important there.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands (PC, PS4, XONE)
Ubisoft, 2017
A new game The Ghost Recon series about an advanced squad of Ghosts and a good fight against powerful drug cartels caught the attention of players back at E3 2015. A spectacular video, Imagine Dragons, dynamic gameplay and a beautiful picture are just candy, not a game. There were, of course, concerns, because Ubisoft like to embellish their presentations, but they were dispelled at the release: Wildlands in practice looks no worse than in its trailers. Moreover, the Anvil game engine allows you to render 16 square kilometers of stunning, unique terrain, partially procedurally generated. At the GDC conference there was even a whole lecture dedicated to the tools of developers from Ubisoft.
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Ho-ho, graphic wankers, your time has come. This is the TOP of the most beautiful games on PC!
Someone will say that beauty is an elastic concept. But there are things that are beautiful, regardless of our attitude towards it - sunset, sky, stars. Fortunately, the sense of beauty is inherent in us from birth. But what does it mean? First of all, it is perfection, ideal, harmony, a combination of various elements of one object, phenomenon or image that evokes aesthetic pleasure in the observer.
Undoubtedly, we encounter beauty in computer games. After all, modern engines allow you to create landscapes that can rival the paintings of outstanding artists. Of course, beauty cannot be understood only as well-designed and smooth graphics - this is just a shell that is not capable of conveying the beauty of everything beautiful, wonderful and inspiring. But add style, unity of image, inner idea, and get the criterion by which the TOP below was compiled - the most beautiful games on PC.
10. Skyrim
It's hard to ignore the last part of the Series Eldar Scrolls. After all, this is not only a large and open fantasy world, but also a peaceful winter with the careful swaying of fir trees, the inspiring rustle of grass, faded green meadows, the refreshing sound of waterfalls and rivers, amazing northern lights, sunsets and sunrises, as well as proud castle architecture. And also epic mountains, gloomy dungeons, wild steppes and hundreds of hours of enjoying this splendor.
Even the bloody scenes with the cutting of limbs fit strangely and somehow in a very picturesque way into this insane beautiful world filled with the beauty of nature.
The work done by the developers is colossal. And even taking into account all the bugs, Skyrim is definitely awesome, as are all the games in the Eldar Scrolls series.
9. FarСry
Name Cryengine It doesn't sound very impressive, but if you look at what lies behind it, it's divine.
In the game Farcry-3 you are presented with a tropical island, lush greenery, cheerful sun, tall palm trees, a stunning ocean with its fabulous coastal depths. Yes, you can list the beauty of the game all day long. You just need to stop after the next burst of machine gun fire and inhale the smell of natural beauty and close your eyes from the gentle sunbeam, and then continue your dirty work with a cleared conscience.
Without a doubt, Far Cry would not be what it is without the beautiful landscapes that make up the body and soul of this legendary shooter.
8. Crysis 3
But there is another game where everything described above is no less cool. In fact, the entire Crysis series is a hymn to natural splendor and natural perfection. Natural beauty here is elevated to absolute.
Although the game is not at all about that, the developers are obsessed with the flora and fauna of our planet. Only this can explain the immense attention to detail and fanatical concentration on individual leaves and blades of grass.
Crysis is one of those rare games that you want to play simply because it is beautiful, and each new level opens up new fantastic pictures of exotic forests, mountains and rivers.
7. Assassins Creed
Let's look away from what is natural. A person endowed with the divine gift of creativity is capable of creating beauty himself. Let's take architecture, painting and art.
The entire Assassins Creed series revels in the magic of human genius. Masterpieces of the Renaissance, the merits of inimitable masters, city landscapes are ready to compete with their natural counterparts.
Maybe you don’t always pay attention to this during intense parkour. But when the damned Templars close in their holes, there is an opportunity to sit comfortably on a high spire and enjoy the results of a thousand years of human progress. This is truly a beautiful game!
6.Mass Effect
Since progress does not stand still, we are always interested in the future. There are many fantastic games that stylishly reveal the picture of the future.
But you have to make sacrifices and settle on combining futuristic design, atmosphere, and breathtaking cosmic distances. And again the whole series Mass Effect- a gift for those who like to look into the future.
Sexy costumes, clever gadgets, alien cities and races, epic clashes, a friendly interface and fantastic landscapes - all these are the fruits of man's desire for perfection of forms, images and details.
5.Final Fantasy
A fairy tale about beauty - no matter whether it is death or birth, creation or destruction, suffering or joy. Beauty can be found in everything. And the game Final Fantasy confirms this.
Heranobu Sakabuchi, when he created this universe of magic, conspiracies and heroes, was probably delirious of beauty. Based on the legends and myths of all mankind, he released the demons and angels of art. A huge variety of visual and graphic solutions is an attempt to touch the most subtle strings of the human spirit, when you need to see, observe and feel, and words are clearly superfluous here.
Final Fantasy is a classic of video games, which is so remembered by players precisely because of its beauty and aesthetic appeal.
4. Bioshock
Series Bioshock has become something unusual against the backdrop of monotonous military shooters. They shoot here too, but how! With a special taste, even charm! To atmospheric music. It is these products that give the word game a special meaning, often bordering on the concept of art.
It has everything a keyboard and mouse knight could dream of. The plot and its creative presentation. Deep atmosphere, stunning graphics, rich in the most modern technologies, and music that won’t leave your head for hours.
Bioshock is an ode to urban beauty, in which it is no longer the naturalness of nature, but the elegance of engineering that is placed at the forefront of everything. And of course, such beauty also has its connoisseurs.
3. Just Cause 2
This game has thousands of square kilometers of beauty - natural and urban. Herself Just Cause has many flaws, but the world of the game deserves applause.
The game archipelago is a group of huge islands connected by bridges. This territory accommodates five climatic zones at once. We see a variety of places - from sandy beaches on the shores of the turquoise ocean and deserts under the scorching sun, to snow-capped mountains and dark green tropical jungles. In seconds you can change from snowy peaks to sun-baked beaches or city blocks to an oil platform in the ocean. Absolute freedom of movement, behavior and action.
The variety of scenes and landscapes is why this game has earned a place in our TOP.
2.Prince of Persia
There is nothing beautiful about murder, you say. But the way the legendary hero Prince of Persia does this is worthy of a separate discussion.
Series Prince of Persia always smelled of antiquity, mysticism and mystery. What kind of mind-blowing inventions has the average gamer ever had to accept? Either he descended into creepy, inhospitable catacombs, then he explored gray-haired palaces, or he climbed to inaccessible peaks.
But everywhere he was haunted by beautiful landscapes of oriental architecture and art. Even battles became an art, painted with the swings of swords. Therefore, a well-deserved place in the TOP of the most beautiful games!
1. The Witcher
This is one of those games that once again proves that it's not all about the graphics. Colors, or rather their combination, are where the key to beauty is! Take, for example, graphonous to the point of nausea Battlefield, well, where does the Polish blockbuster have to do with it? However, Battle has no soul - just a great action movie with a polished shell. Of course, this genre doesn’t need anything else, but the Witcher needed the colors. Where there was not enough power, they made do with brightness, and the result is obvious.
But that's certainly not all. The whole style of the game, advertising trailers, various inserts, locations, unique characters and of course a large living world... - everything that is called presentation - gives the hunter of evil spirits the right to be proud of the beauty of his implementation. Beauty with soul!
The Crysis series of games was a real revolution in terms of graphics. The first part of the game still looks very good today, despite the fact that it was released in 2007. However, now we will look at the game "Crysis 3". It was created on the CryEngine 3 engine and is only supported by DiretX 11. Thanks to this game engine, the game has a very beautiful game world and excellent gameplay. The third part became one of the most beautiful games of the year. All events take place in New York, which is overgrown with jungle due to the disaster.
