Consoles may have their technically impressive titles, but on PC, games aren’t held back by ageing hardware, and while that means we’re treated to some truly incredible looking experiences, it also leads to developers pushing the very best hardware to its absolute limits. We’re talking GPU starting to smoke inside your tower kind of limits.
The thing is, these unhindered efforts have become cornerstones in PC gaming, creating some of the most technically impressive graphics in the history of the industry. They became benchmarks (with many still holding that reverential place) not just for players, but developers the world over.
As part of TechRadar’s PC Gaming Week 2018, we take a look at the most graphically-impressive PC games of all time. If these make you desperate to upgrade your rig, make sure you check out our list of the best graphics cards.
Crysis (2007)
How could we put together a feature on games as graphical benchmarks and not mention the elder king of GPU destruction? When Crytek dropped Crysis upon the PC gaming community in 2007, it drew a line in the virtual sand between those that could run it, and those that wept in lamentation over their impotent …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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