D3 did great at rendering a world where everything is made of metal.
Farcry did great at rendering a photogenic tropical island paradise.
Half-Life 2 is apparently doing great at rendering basic urban reality.
Just looking at my house now, I can say with certainty that HL2 looks far more like what I see. There's no bright primary colours, but there's also no flat-black shadows with bright reflections popping off of everything.
Doom 3 looks great, and it looks real. But it doesn't look like reality.
It's polished and stylized like a supermodel. It's more cinematic than realistic.
Source owns CryEngine in water rendering, physics, models and it can work well on low end machines. I think that FC would look better if it was made with Source (imagine invading an island in a Strider :rolling: )
