Best graphics for each console

[milk]

SNES: Yoshi's Island

While the thing made use of the Super FX chip, it really pushed SNES own graphics hardware in some very creative effects. Most crazy effects seen in these bosses for exemple, are actually just clever usage of Hblank interrupts to modify the scrolling position of a BG layer (the bosses) in a maner similar to pseudo-3d racers.

Mega Drive: Red Zone

This game features: Rotating Background Graphics, Rotating Background Texture, 2D Vector Sprite Objects, 3D Vector Polygon Graphics, Realtime Zoom, Full Motion Video Compression. All running without the use of additional hardware. It's not me saying this, that is written on-screen once you load the game. That's what happens when a team of demo-sceners make a console game. Also, it plays like shit.

The Adventures of Batman and Robin

Full of BG tricks, in a similar vein to Yoshi's story.

 

[Nesh]

SNES: Yoshi's Island

While the thing made use of the Super FX chip, it really pushed SNES own graphics hardware in some very creative effects. Most crazy effects seen in these bosses for exemple, are actually just clever usage of Hblank interrupts to modify the scrolling position of a BG layer (the bosses) in a maner similar to pseudo-3d racers.

Mega Drive: Red Zone

This game features: Rotating Background Graphics, Rotating Background Texture, 2D Vector Sprite Objects, 3D Vector Polygon Graphics, Realtime Zoom, Full Motion Video Compression. All running without the use of additional hardware. It's not me saying this, that is written on-screen once you load the game. That's what happens when a team of demo-sceners make a console game. Also, it plays like shit.

The Adventures of Batman and Robin

Full of BG tricks, in a similar vein to Yoshi's story.

Mighty impressive!!

 

[Globalisateur]

Xbox - Halo Combat Evolved

Gamecube - Star wars rogue squadron 2

PS2 - Shadow of the colossus

 

[bunge]

Can't forget Strider on the Genesis:

 

[bunge]

Not my favorite genre but Comix Zone was impressive in many ways:

 

[bunge]

Colecovision (sorry):

Zaxxon

Star Wars

There are a few more Colecovision games I need to look at before posting...

 

[HTupolev]

Xbox 360 : halo 3.

dat reach rain tho

Spoiler

I've started capturing media for a look at Reach's graphics, so I'll probably get the article out by Q3 2034 or so.

 

[Liandry]

Gea games guys! I'll check them!

 

[rabidrabbit]

I remember Silent Hill 3 and Baldur's Gate. Dark Alliance for PS2 looking amazing.
And of course Z.O.E 2

 

[Sigfried1977]

Chronicles of Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay

Panzer Dragoon Orta was a real looker back in the day too.

It wasn't a very common thing unfortunately, but when devs could develop for the Xbox exclusively, some really cool shit usually happened.

 

[HTupolev]

The Adventures of Batman and Robin

Between these awesome youtube annotations and the music, I'm having a hard time paying attention to how good the graphics are.

 

[milk]

Between these awesome youtube annotations and the music, I'm having a hard time paying attention to how good the graphics are.

I like it very much too. Has nothing to do with actual batman and robim though. If the elaborate exploitation of the hardware to atain graphics that you would not expect to be possible on the mega drive for little to no effect on actual gameplay is not enough to tip you off that this was made by demo-sceners, the music definetly blows their cover.

 

[swaaye]

Chronicles of Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay

Xbox has quite a few amazing efforts. Doom3, Half Life 2, Far Cry Instincts, Riddick, Conker Reloaded..... Fur rendering, stencil shadows, loads of bump mapping, etc.

 

[Nesh]