Killzone SF has the best looking lighting in a shooter.

I have played many pretty shooters such as Crysis 3, Metro, FarCry 3, BF4 you name it, many of them pop out so much simply due to a complex lighting engine that renders everything so lively. I know each engine comes with pros and cons, some more so than others but none has really impressed me in such a way like Killzone SF did. Tech wise it's definitely one of the most advanced out there. A full Deferred renderer with HDR, outputting thousands of lights each is volumetric casting volumetric shadows and with Area light property. And on top of a full PBR pipeline with realtime reflection, raytracing and cubemap, you really can't ask for more for a PS4 launch title at this stage. Now it's possible some shooters might have a few things better but the end result whether due to a combination of art and tech, KZ looks the most impressive lighting wise. Now I welcome challenges from vanilla unmodded console or PC games.

Here we go again.

It's a fine looking game but ultimately fails in too many other areas. I do want beautiful games but I also want games with better structure and more playability.

Killzone shadowfall is a very good looking tech demo.

GPUKING: give it up, Consoles will always be outclassed in graphics by the PC, you can keep posting these threads all you want it won't change that.

It also had one of the most boring sp campaigns ever

@delta3074I'm not questioning PC tech or its power over console, I just simply haven't seen one yet. Maybe Crysis 4, BF5 "not Hardline" or a new Metro game may take away the crown. I only speak of what's available to my own eyes not a hypothetical PC title that may or may not carry the potential.

The game sucks though. Who cares?

Why unmodded

it also has the worst of everything else. Lag-tastic servers, crap load outs, junk game types, poor control. I would rather play Goldeneye on N64 than this overhyped garbajjjjj!!!

Sigh...

KZ:SF is very inconsistent with its visuals. At times, it can look completely amazing. However, there are so many instances of bad textures, poor animation, and flat environments. I wouldn't put it anywhere close to games like BF4. BF4 looks amazing at all times and is a much more enjoyable game as well.

It's not like there are that many games on PC that look better than Shadowfall. Hardware is only as good as the games that make use of it and it's completely secondary. Even if they had a 64 core, 10ghz CPU with 8k gigs of ram..do you really think it would matter at this point if no game makes use of much more power than what a console has? Don't be a fanboy to hardware, be a fanboy to the games you enjoy regardless of what platform it's on.

Yeah the graphics are pretty good but the gameplay is mediocre.

Hypocritical fanboys who go into every single PC thread and scream "LOL NOBODY CARES U CANT EVEN PLAY GAMES ON DEM SETTINGS STEAM SURVEY SAYZ SO" whilst simultaneously praising every PS4 exclusive to be the best looking anything ever of all time.

True. The game is simply gourgeous

As others have said, the game is gorgeous just the gameplay isn't all that great.

Why unmodded? Because we should go by the original vision developers set out to be as well as stable framerate.

Yet, Shaodw Fail is a tech demo made with millions of dollars payed forth by the company who controlls the console to show of said machine's power.

See the problem in your reasoning?

PC is an open ended platform, by which mods are a direct results of said openess. Killzone is on a closed platform and was made to be a show off game, like The Order 1886 and Ryse.

Who the hell is going to pay millions to develop a mediocre pc game with pretty graphics? Nobody gains anything from pc hardware sales.

Nvidia and AMD do. Nvidia made serious bank when Crysis 1 came out and everyone jumped on the 8800GT's.

Best looking doesn't make it technically best.

Too bad the game sucked.

Graphics don't make a good game.

@deadline-zero0

You speak of openness as if everyone can enjoy the same result, but just how many pc gamers are capable of running a heavily modded Skyrim or Crysis with a stable fps, that's not counting random crashes, bugs, complex installation and all that hassles. PC has so many issues to be remotely considered consistent, the latest Dead Rising 3 is a prime example, they shipped the copy half way functional not even DF could play a decent 15min without crashing. Pathetic really.

Yes, lets play the entire platform for some companies shit games.....

STALKER IS BETTER(OPEN WORLD VS LINEAR KILLZONE)

@FreedomFreeLife:

You'll only get the 'but mods don't count' response, if you get a response at all.

I don't wanna say something like "but Shadowfall really sucks", considering that it isn't what this thread's about, but man, Shadowfall really sucks.

Stalker doesn't even have proper PBR, looks as fake as they come.

@FreedomFreeLife:

wtf? Then how many pc gamers are capable of running base Skyrim and Crysis? And why the **** are you comparing mods to a badly optimized game, when even Skyrim had a ton of issues on all platforms?

It's not like you need SLI or Crossfire to run high quality lighting mods for Skyrim, Crysis 3 or GTA while mainting a respectable frame rate.

@MonsieurX said:

@FreedomFreeLife:

WE'RE YELLING ABOUT LIGHTING AND A BUNCH OF TECHNICAL CRAP!

Your avatar is oddly apt for his post.

@FreedomFreeLife said:

STALKER IS BETTER(OPEN WORLD VS LINEAR KILLZONE)

No. STALKER is godlike but not for it's graphics.

fake as real life? So, you ignore fact that STALKER looks better?

One of my favorite FPS online game.

But to see one, shouldn´t you have a gaming pc first : P

Nope. And this is only 2010 game lol... what looks better than 2013 year game lol

Its that space shooter than Futuremark released.

@Motokid6: it's Shattered Horizons

The game is ballin, that's the bottom line.

Crysis 3 probably has the most advanced lighting of any shooter, they released a pdf explaining the rendering techniques in the game. But someone can of course subjectively think another game's lighting looks better.

The graphics aren't the problem with KZ SF.

I have the best looking ball bag in the dark...................still not very fun to play with.