Top 5 Water Effects This Gen

PS3is4D - 102 days 7 hours ago

I'm not surprised. Crysis has always been the graphics king.

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umair_s51 - 102 days 7 hours ago

Yes Crysis should be number 1. But halo lol. It looks good in that video but I think Bioshock and Uncharted are far better than Halo.

Edit: funny thing Bioshock and Uncharted vids are not even in HD.
Check out the HD vid for Bioshock and judge your self!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Cwalat - 102 days 7 hours ago

My list:

1. Crysis
2. Uncharted
3. Gears of war 2
4. Bioshock
5. Halo 3

How GTAIV even earned a spot on their list is beyond me, it has the ugliest water effects (except for the rain).

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Time Lord - 102 days 7 hours ago

But IMO Uncharted has the best water and best water effect.

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Pandamobile - 102 days 7 hours ago

Play Crysis and that will quickly change.

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Insomnia_84 - 102 days 7 hours ago

wtf is GTA4 doing in that list??

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siyrobbo - 102 days 7 hours ago

one thing i liked about uncharted was how drake interacted with the water, it actually soaks him, that was a nice touch you dont see too often

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raztad - 102 days 6 hours ago

@Panda

Your comment is valid but then

Have you played UC1?

EDIT: I hit the article. Obviously written by a PC fanboy.

Crysis video 8 mins long, GTA4- PC mod (WTF?) 4 mins long. Console videos some few seconds. Come on. Why not to title the article: Look at Crysis and moded GTA4 water effecs?

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STONEY4 - 102 days 6 hours ago

Cryostasis also had some nice water and physics effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

But that's about the only good thing about the graphics in the game.

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TheIneffableBob - 102 days 6 hours ago

I would've replaced GTA IV with Resistance 2.

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Pandamobile - 102 days 6 hours ago

Yes, I have play Uncharted.

Graphics were fine, but not on Crysis' level.

What the hell difference does it make if the videos were longer? Lots of people make videos just to show off Crysis and custom Crysis maps running in high settings.

And all that GTA IV mod was a flooded city. It's the same water on the 360 and PS3.

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pixelsword - 102 days 6 hours ago

1. Resistance 2
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

2. Gears 2
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

3. Killzone 2
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

4. Lair
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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ThanatosDMC - 102 days 6 hours ago

Gears of War 2?! You're kidding PS2's Champions of Norrath is doing the same thing!

But yeah, Crysis owns all. Also, wtf is GTA4 doing on the list?

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STONEY4 - 102 days 6 hours ago

@raztad

Why do you think it was written by a PC fanboy? Crysis deserved first place, and the writer doesn't have control of the length of the videos. And Uncharted doesn't come close to Crysis water (and yes, I used to have Uncharted). But imo GTA4 shouldn't have been there, I didn't like the water in it.

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raztad - 102 days 6 hours ago

Hey no. I didnt mean Crysis dont deserve the top spot. What I said is clearly too much effort was put in showcasing (f*ng 8 min long video) Crysis, and almost not love for the others.

BTW, Uc1 did pretty well to be a first gen PS3 title. The water is plain beautiful, and the interaction with the main character was nicely done.

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OpenGL - 102 days 5 hours ago

Crysis does not deserve #1 as they just place alpha textures on top of their ocean to "simulate" water interaction. Gears of War 2 should have been included as it has probably the best water ripples I've seen in a game so far. That said, Crysis still belongs in the top 5 due to how good the ocean looks when you aren't trying to interact with it.

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FamilyGuy - 102 days 5 hours ago

"This Gen" is short for "This generation of gaming consoles" so pc games and mods should not be included in this list.

I disagree, the topic needs re-titling. Top 5 water effects in gaming.

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mal_tez92 - 102 days 2 hours ago

#1 & #2 : Drake's Fortune and Crysis
They have great water. Crysis' water looks better, But the way the water interacts in Uncharted is much better (e.g. the waves in the jet-ski levels and soaked clothes) So they tie for first

#3: Bioshock

#4: Resistance 2 (moves and looks real but has some jaggies and is always brown)

#5: MGS 4

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mikeslemonade - 102 days 2 hours ago

Haha halo 3 and GTA4 don't belong on the list. Two of the worst looking games this generation.

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morganfell - 102 days ago

I played Crysis and it is good but Uncharted is better. Water effects are more than just reflections and color tone. In Uncharted, when Drake gets wet he drips and his clothes actually dry out over time.

Besides, ignoring the water in Call of Juarez Bound in Blood is just wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

@raztad, if you don't give Crysis the top 5 spots he is going to burn up another bubble expounding upon the shortcomings in your powers of observation. Never mind that you might have fallen asleep trying to get through Crysis ho hum generic paint by numbers predictable story.

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DaTruth - 102 days ago

Infamous. It was sad that such an impressive game, would have such terrible water. When you hit a guy into the water, he dies on top as if it were the ground; No floating, just dead on top. Electricity effects KING!!!

But when I play GTA4 after playing Infamous, it hurts my eyes!

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villevalorox - 101 days 21 hours ago

OKay, in no order.. Umm

Crysis hell yeah.
uncharted 2.
killzone 2 Beach Head map wow!
Bioshock
Battlefield 1943 the water looks so nice :)
Resistance 2
Gears of war has nice water.

so many :) .. can not wait for uncharted 2 :P

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Goomba12 - 101 days 20 hours ago

@ Morganfell
You must have played Crysis on low settings or something to actually believe what you just said. Btw who cares about the story. did you actually play Crysis for the story.

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MEsoJD - 101 days 20 hours ago

is doing HALO on that list : o

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JonnyBadfinger - 101 days 17 hours ago

HOW THE F*** did GTA4 get on that list???

its the most life less looking sea of vomit ive ever seen!

in proper order:

1) Crysis
2) Uncharted (i will admit, the soaking clothes is a nice touch)
3) Halo 3 (Best water physics, objects and bodys floating down stream)
4) Bioshock
5) Gears of War 2

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morganfell - 101 days 16 hours ago

What's the matter? Your feelings hurt because I won't bow before your game?

Very few titles have mechanics that are so good you do not care about a story. Crysis isn't one of those. I guess I am one of those smart people that realize Crysis was nothing built a glorified tech demo built buy a group of people that do not know how to market a game engine.

Brain dead people might be able to stare at the "purty lights" and be amazed but I for one expect the story end of the production to hold up it's end of the table.

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nirwanda - 101 days 16 hours ago

the living water at the very end boss of prince of persia is the best water i've seen this gen

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Lifendz - 101 days 14 hours ago

Wow that game looks amazing.

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sloth4urluv - 101 days 8 hours ago

"I played Crysis and it is good but Uncharted is better. Water effects are more than just reflections and color tone. In Uncharted, when Drake gets wet he drips and his clothes actually dry out over time. "

If thats the case tehn I guess Zelda belongs on the list too, because when link jumps in the water his clothes get soaked and they dry out over time...

Seriously the water in uncharted looks great, and I would have put it higher in the list (maybe second), but it dosnt look better than the water in crysis.

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Goomba12 - 99 days 21 hours ago

Wow Morganfell....you must be a fanboy

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Final_Rpg - 101 days 17 hours ago

teach me?

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stewgart - 102 days 7 hours ago

I actually thought it was a bit shabby compared to the rest of the graphics in the game. Still better than Halo3 however.

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Kornholic - 102 days 7 hours ago

You can't really do anything with the water or in the water. That was a bit disappointing.

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Kleptic - 102 days 5 hours ago

its very obvious that this article has no grounding in the technical side of real time fluid rendering...as both halo and bioshock, on a technical level, are not impressive at all...it still looks good, and does its part in both games...but neither game has real time reflections, and bioshock doesn't have 3d layer manipulation...halo does though, which is always impressive...

Uncharted by far has the most impressive water rendering of any console game...and Crysis overall still has the best overall I would say...but its debatable in way, as only uncharted takes the water effects onto characters...but both games have complete physics based layer manipulation...both have full real time reflections (even of NPCs and things that you can change...not just a static reflection)...both have the effects of bodies floating (halo 3 does that too)...

Killzone 2 was impressive in terms of the waves and a few layers of textures moving in the water (it wasn't just a solid color, there where several layers of 'current' or whatever you want to call it moving independently)...and it also had floating bodies and stuff...but it had zero layer manipulation...and GG commented on that before the game released, that they wished they had time to add that 'uncharted' like effect to the water...because there was actually a good amount of it in the game...

Gears 2 should have been on this over Bioshock...gears 2 finally had the layer manipulation and real time reflections added in its upgraded version of UE3...bioshock did not...but Epic barely used it in gears 2 anyway...as there was one boss fight that was water based, and just a handful of other spots in the game where water was present...

Resistance 2 had all the new effects put into water, but it was poorly done overall imo...the viscosity of fluids in that game were all wrong...it looked and moved like jello...

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JBaby343 - 101 days 23 hours ago

Other games have good looking water but not like Crysis and Uncharted and you stated why. They have something extra like how you can see the real reflections on the surface while at the same time seeing the bottom under with refractions happening and even the little light flickers of sun when it hits it right plus flow and response to player movement all in one. Halo, Bioshock, Gears 2, GTA IV, and others have nice water but not like that.

If we're just talking nice looking on the surface with reflections then I would throw Far Cry 2 in there as well. Overall I give the #1 award to Uncharted. Crysis make look better but I can't find a $300 computer to run Crysis so Uncharted gets it for making the most of what its got.

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Kleptic - 101 days 9 hours ago

yeah there were several other 'best water effects' articles over the past few years...and Uncharted almost always won it...it is very impressive, and there is not one thing that any other game does over it tech wise...Crysis does the same things, but the differences between the two games are simply aesthetic...its just a matter of liking the greenish water in crysis, or the darker blue water of uncharted...the tech inside the rendering in both games are almost identical...and no other games yet stand toe to toe with either...

Uncharted 2 is supposed to take that tech and add it to snow...something MGS4 sort of did already (which by the way also has excellent water effects, the reflections where a bit wonky though)...

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Halochampian - 102 days 7 hours ago

Halo's water?? Garbage??

Honestly the water was fantastic. I remember Frankie always talking about how amazing the water was... and it didnt disappoint. The stream on Valhalla was beautiful and watching the objects float downstream was an amazing spectacle to embrace.

The halo hatred is so ridiculous on this site.

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Pandamobile - 102 days 7 hours ago

We've had flowing water since 2004 (Half-Life 2).

Half-Life 2's water is still far more advanced than Halo 3's.

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Halochampian - 102 days 7 hours ago

You're kidding right?

Half Life 2's water was alright, but it didnt react to you standing in water current like Halo's.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

You clearly have a thorn up your ass towards Halo and cant admit that the water looks good.

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Pandamobile - 102 days 6 hours ago

It looks better than HL2's, yes, but HL2's water still has way better physical properties and characteristics.

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Wiimaniac - 102 days 8 hours ago

Chapter 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Chapter 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Sir Ken_Kutaragi - 102 days 6 hours ago

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2.A ChatBot Zombie DLC Lemming Weeping
3.A ChatBot Zombie DLC Lemming Crying
4.A ChatBot Zombie DLC Lemming Sobbing
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napoleon_ist - 102 days 4 hours ago

the fortress
http://image.com.com/gamesp...

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11 360s and counting - 102 days 1 hour ago

I hope little big planets water will look goody, I haven't seen it yet. Hey everyone.............the nipples of light.

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Pandamobile - 102 days 8 hours ago

I don't like Halo, but I have to admit its water is pretty good.

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Nelson M - 102 days 6 hours ago

PandaTesticleSack

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Pandamobile - 102 days 6 hours ago

what

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Pandamobile - 102 days 8 hours ago

No it's not.

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Dead_Cell - 102 days 7 hours ago

Almost as bad as Resistance 2's.
Bioshock then Uncharted for console games IMO.

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STONEY4 - 102 days 6 hours ago

The water is the only good looking thing in Halo 3... the rest of the game looks like Halo 2 with overly shiny things. AKA like crap.

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napoleon_ist - 102 days 4 hours ago

i have halo 3 and uncharted, halo doesn't match uncharted's fortress stage.

one game is 640p (boo!!), the other is 720p that can be upcaled to 1080p on the ntsc version.
http://www.trustedreviews.c...

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gambare - 101 days 19 hours ago

"Halo is a graphical masterpiece its priceless like Vincent van Gogh painting. "

This phrase said by a little kid is cute, but said by a 30yo virgin is scary.... oh hi Xbox360Elite, you scared the hell out of me

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Typical-Guy - 102 days 7 hours ago

I'm guessing you're 12-year-old gamer.

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Deadman64 - 102 days 4 hours ago

And I'm guessing your a loser, virgin who very rarely feels the sun saturate his skin?

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Dead_Cell - 102 days ago

That that was the biggest dose of ownage I have seen in quite some time.

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Typical-Guy - 102 days 7 hours ago

This is your master Scolar Visari, hehehehe

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ps3freak18 - 102 days 7 hours ago

Wow, what a mature thing to say.

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 102 days 7 hours ago

I know you're trying to be sarcastic and downplay PS3 fanboys & games..

It's just ironic how you end up typing like the average 360 fanboy.

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Nitrowolf2 - 102 days 7 hours ago

That actually uncharted 1.
2 looks allot better.

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nightelfmohawk - 102 days 7 hours ago

whoops, I meant Uncharted 1.

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Bob Dole - 102 days 5 hours ago

Lair was the very first game to have volumetric water. Why it's not on this list over GTA4 and Halo makes no sense at all.

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JBaby343 - 101 days 23 hours ago

Lair had some amazing graphics/effects period.

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shutupandplay - 102 days 6 hours ago

What, you gonna cry now?

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IDetonation - 101 days 9 hours ago

FANNNNNNNBOYYYYYYYYYYYY F4GGGGGGGGGGGGG.

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Neo Amon - 102 days 2 hours ago

................ is ...........er...... there is none bs3 sucks

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Pandamobile - 101 days 19 hours ago

Why would you buy a GTX 295 to run Crysis at 1280 x 1024...

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