COD4 Graphics Better than Crysis?

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So I played Crysis last night for about an hour or so (1370 x 768) on a 27" LCD. Last week I played COD4. I gotta say right now COD4's graphics to me are actually better. I mean I could feel my jaw dropping in some scenes for COD 4. So far in Crysis I'm not that impressed by just the graphics. I do like parts of the open game play though.

I'm bringing home a 24" WS monitor with a native res of 1680 x 1050 in hopes to see if playing the game at a better resolution will help but COD4 on my 27 with 1370 x 768 looked awesome!

 
what settings are you running each game at...

i dont really care, cod4 is not my type of game, so many walls, i want to run around like a fairy in the forest and use sleeping (darts) dust on KPA soldiers that come my way.
 
I haven't seen first hand Crysis eye candy. I haven't seen COD4 eye candy either.

I just want to brag that I run COD4 on my system - (P4 1.8, Radeon 9550 SE 512 Mb SDRAM), 640x480, everything on lowest possible and it's playable. Ugly as hell, but definitely playable. Of course, the term "playable" is negotiable too, because sometimes during battle I move the mouse and shoot at something but one frame it's there the next frame it's three screens right, and someone is shooting at me but I can't see from where. Until I manage to center my view and look around the battle is over.
But, Christmas is coming, and my next salary too - somewhere out there is a 8800GT, quietly sleeping in its box in a store, waiting to be plugged in and unleash its shader units on nothing suspected pixels. Yes, my precious...soon (well, unless my boss decides to pay his debts with my *&#;@ salary again)
 


What's your hardware smart guy?

I can max CoD4 at 800x600 with a 7600gt (med @ 1024), I'm sure a lowly x1950pro could max it at the rez you're playing it at. Crysis needs an 8800GT minimum to look / play great at your rez of 1320x768.
 
Played both games.
Loved both of em.
Cod 4 Maxed out at 1980x1200
Crysis on High at 1980x1200

Personally I think Crysis puts any and every game to shame when it comes to graphics. This includes cod4, but everyone is entitled to their opinions.
 
Once we have systems able to run Crysis @ full detail, res, AA, DX10 and 60 FPS I believe it will blow CoD 4 out of the water, but I suppose right now at lower detail and res on Crysis it wont look as good as CoD 4 at higher settings. Remember how much more you are rendering in Crysis over CoD 4...so the settings cant be set the same and get the same performance. I think that if you put them side by side on relative same settings that Crysis will easily take the take...none of this even takes in account the superior physics of the cryengine 2 of whatever CoD 4 is used on. Just my two cents!

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yea a system really hasnt even been made yet that can handle crysis at full-ridiculously-maxed-out-everything . . . so it clearly has wayyyy more potential than cod4 in graphics . . dont think any game will even come close to that for a while
 
Crysis Graphics are too clean... the jungles.. they look great.. but call of duty appeals to what I like more. COD4 is an amazing game. I play is on my 92" projection screen (1080p) and it is amazing.
 
I played the COD4 demo before Crysis and thought COD4 looked pretty good. Nothing mind blowing but very good and it ran smooth along with simply being a great game. Then I played Crysis. At first I tried everything maxed (like COD4) but it wasn't very playable. I lowered my res and AA and the was able to play and Crysis definetly blows COD4 away even when somewhat below max settings. Even though gameplay is not quite as smooth, visually Crysis completely dominates COD4 and every other game. Throw in the impressive physics and Crysis is by far the most stunning game ever as far as looks go. I haven't played much COD4 (only parts of the demo) so I can't compare gameplay, but on looks alone there is no comparison.
 
yeah, i definitely think crysis has better graphics. the image quality is simply better and the amount of detail in textures, objects, etc is also much higher.
 
So I swapped monitors from the 27 to a 19 that supports a higher native res of 1280 x 1024. Really not much of a difference. Meaning the graphics IMO aren't mind blowing, they are nice though.

My settings for both games are all set on high. Crysis is set to "everything high". I've been playing Crysis more and I'm seeing some better graphics but still not as spectacular as I imagined. Also There are busy scenes that seem to cripple my machine's FPS in crysis (understandable) whereas in COD4 there seem to be even bigger and busier scenes that my machine eats right through without a drop in FPS (not understandable).

So far the best scene for me in both games was in COD4 as the sniper suited in leaves running through the desserted buildings of the dessolated city in an attempt to assisnate one of the evil leaders. The light shinning through the buildings creating shadows off the charecters and of the building was spectacular.

I gotta say I had two pretty great moments last night in Crysis where I used the speed function to zip next to a machine gun bunker, then the strength function to hop on the roof, then shot down through the roof which collapsed the building then shot the guard in the head all in one seemless motion. The next was that I simply blew apart a guard tower holding a sniper with the missle launcher. After exploding the structure the roof continued to flip off high into the sky and land into palm trees where it knocked them down. I thought that was pretty realistic.

My system specs are:

Core 2 E6600 2.4 / core (no overclock)
4 GB DDR2 RAM
Raid 0+1 (4 300 GB HDD) 680i chipset
8800GTS 640 MB graphics Card
Vista 64 Ultimate





 
COD4 graphics are excellent while still remaining playable on non-enthusiasts cards. Crysis graphics are outstanding, but not nearly as playable on the "average" card. This is not necessarily a bad thing either. I feel that Crysis bringing every known graphics card to it's knees will force card manufacturers into making next gen cards.
 
Cod4 has great graphics but simply nowhere near as good as Crysis. Your resolution might be your problem. Also chances are you werent running at the highest settings
 
I get ~100fps more in COD4 than I can in Crysis at max settings... so it definately plays better, adding to the experience and overall quality of the game.

The argument is both subjective and objective... so that being said, the graphics quality seems similiar in both games, but the detail of the environments in Crysis are head and shoulders above anything I've ever played.
 


But as a game consumer that is not the reason to buy a game now is it? We want the best gaming experience possible, not a game that will force us to upgrade to something that has not yet even been released yet.
 
But as a game consumer that is not the reason to buy a game now is it? We want the best gaming experience possible, not a game that will force us to upgrade to something that has not yet even been released yet.
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No, it's really not a reason to buy it. The gameplay is pretty good (I never played FarCry so I can't compare the two) allowing you to do just about anything you want. I feel that COD4 and HL2 (& the Source Engine in general) do a fantastic job of delivering great looks and outstanding performance. I still do respect these guys somewhat for taking the leap, because someone had to do it, and usher in a new age of hardware and graphics. They are the pioneers of the gaming industry atm, and whether you know it or not, I think you will appreciate it some day.
 
I think the type of graphics in COD4 are what impress me... things are more realistic IMO... that being said its probably easier to design a realistic looking COD type environment then the ones they do in Crysis. I think both games are great and deserve some props.
 


Ah, therein lies the rub...

I think there's a very real debate going on right now about which is the better game, top to bottom: CoD4 or Crysis?

In terms of graphics, I'll submit that you can run CoD4 at full tilt across the board and not strain your current system, whereas Crysis will most likely require some upgrades before you can approach high settings at a decent resolution. And even then, it's next to impossible to push everything to Very High settings at max resolution and have a decent gaming experience. So yes, Crysis does have better graphics (but not by all that much IMO), but what's the point if you can't appreciate them during gameplay becaue you're stuck at 15-20 FPS?

Aside from graphics, not to hijack this thread or anything, I've played a fair amount of Crysis (Travis is reviewing it, I'm just playing for fun). So far I have to say that CoD4 has the better single player camapign, but that could change soon.
 
So far I have to say that CoD4 has the better single player camapign, but that could change soon.
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The dynamic campaign style is why CoD4 is one of the best single player campaigns out there. You aren't forced to run through trenches or hallways for 16 levels. You literally get to do just about everything you see going around you in CoD4. CoD4 definitely pulls ahead of Crysis in the multi player dept... so much fun 😀.

Crysis is fun and it's "Sandbox" style allows for great replay value since you can approach the same mission just about any way you see fit. (Drive a car full of gas barrels into a tower, Yeah!!!) The singe player also gets a little (tiny bit) stale when you get into the cave (I won't spoil anything).
 
I'm very disappointed in Crysis. I played for about an hour last night, 55 mins of that time was spent playing with settings to try to get it to look DECENT and maintain at least ~30 fps... I couldn't. I looked at all the tweak guides. I think the settings I ended up with was 1280 x 800, no AA, shader quality on high and everything else on medium and water on low. I believe I'm up around 40 fps but it simply does not look impressive AT ALL.

Call of Duty 4 on the other hand I can run on ALL of the highest settings, looks amazing and multiplayer runs as smooth as can be.

The only good thing I can say about Crysis is that you can definitely see there is a lot of technology and potential and interactive qualities to the graphics and terrain... but, its just NOT worth it at this point.

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