casualcolors :
This is a thread about the graphically best games. Why would COD have any place in it? Not trolling, but COD is not remotely challenging even for dated computers to run, and doesn't look very good by comparison to anything mentioned in the thread.
Admitedly I haven't played any of the games mentioned here.
But I have played FPS games for years, and I have to mention some of my favorite, and I believe quit good on graphics as well-
1. Call of Duty - Modern Warfare. Both SP and MP have great graphics.
2. Battlefield 2142 and its expansion pack.
other than Command and Conquer 3 expansion pack Kane's Revenge, those are the games I'm currently playing and love.
Good graphics - Doom 3. (Each Doom was great for its day, but now that real realistic graphics are here, we can only give props for 'good in its day' to any other Doom game.
Delta Force Land Warrior and Day of Defeat were also great games and had good/great graphics, but now are too dated by todays standards.
P.S.
When I was heavy into gaming, no matter what the technology or year, if I remember correctly, my graphics card always cost about $200 and was a best bang for the buck kinkd of card. And due to its size, I would only get an ATX motherboard. And I think the Video card always had about 1/4 the memory of my system memory. Today, thats 4 GB for the mobo, 1 GB for the video card.