Best PC Graphics of 2011

2011 was a banner year for PC gamers, with some incredible titles releasing onto the supposedly dead platform. We went through the past year's release calendar and put together a list of the ten most visually impressive games you can play on a PC (and Mac, for those of you who are so inclined). As you will soon see, running a game on max settings on a decked out gaming rig still offers the greatest gaming spectacle money can buy.

See more of our 2011 highlights here!
http://www.ign.com/wikis/best-of-2011

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http://pc.ign.com/

And don't forgot about our sister site, the PC focused GameSpy:
http://www.gamespy.com/

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[tazss159]

Where is Minecraft?

[chrisrock1990]

i thought he was going to show an EPIC pc of magnanimous graphical properties. :( sorely disappointed.

[dvdcastav]

@au25 i was talking about graphics, and also because i liked what i saw about Rage, and since i love Borderlands, they're kinda at the same level (despite the fact i never played Rage), i wasn't talkig about the game itself. But thanks for the heads up, i think i'm gonna try Rage now i read your comment :)

[DawggyH]

@au25 Crying like a little "bithc" IS raging, you must be new here

anyway, it was rated by pure amateurs, with there shitty alienware laptops, and again, the slightest change to a game can make nerds like you Fag-gasm, all they did with the engine is enhance it by like, 1, and you guys nerdgasm over the graphics,

im not a fucking nerd like you, I barely ever play games, I bet you just sit on your fat ass all day and play with your cheesy dorito hands.

Keep raging you pathetic weesle-slut

[au25]

bf3 has the least innovation ever, infact the singleplayer of bf3 is actualy more linear and scripted than mw3, i wonder why.

If i wanted a game with vehicles, id buy homefront not garbage field 3, a game that has sooooo much shitty delay in hit detection that takes no skill nor is reallistic, enjoy your shitty joke of a game. ill play a real game instead.

[au25]

like mass effect 2.5 or assasin creed 2.5 and 2.7 or the 3 identical stalker games, or doom 2 which is 100% COPY PASTE of doom 1 but with one single new weapon.

So you FAILLLED you little shit.

Keep showing how retarded you are. You think cod fans want them to change the game? OFCOURSE NOT it sells like crazy why change it and ruin it, eg prince of persia in 2008, deus ex invisible war

You get the point, also mw3 may not have interactivity but bf3 is generic standarized war with no innovation

[au25]

@DawggyH rage is not "crying like a little bithc" So i guess you dont know your stuff kid, apart from many other things....

"mw3 sucked dick"

Now who is acting like a kid?

How it sucked dick? it got rated well and sold well and your butthurt hate of goign in sites and downrating it without playing wont change SHIT you fucking dipshit.

mw3 looks amazing on pc, but then again you are an idiot who doesnt know shit, actually i can point out sequels that are more "recycled"....

[DawggyH]

@au25 When I said rage, I meant you were crying like a little bitch, not that game for faggots, and you were standing up for MW3 Like the 10 year old faggot you are, "best graphics" or not, Mw3 sucked dick, and if you had eyes, you'd see that Mw3 had the slightest changes that made nerds like you fag-gasm.

MW3 has the least interaction in any wargame, there would be fucking tanks and jets and shit, Activision hired faggots, enough said

Keep raging, your tears are my fuel.

[yourfatnan12]

@tazss159 competing with space invaders to see which has better graphics, personally space invaders will win.



[au25]

@DawggyH sadly you are that faggot. Mw2 looks milles beter than rage. Better textures, geometry, shaders, lighting. EVERYTHING. There are plenty of changes in mw3, for one it has no idtech 3 code left whatsoever. Mw3 has better textures lighting and geometry than mw2. Also SSAO on pc an the sp levels are bigger than prevous cod games.

Infact you are wrong mw3 does not have blurry texures, if it does then rage textures are 16 bit with pixels poping out.

Go to IMFDB and see foryourself.

[DawggyH]

@au25 Beating a RAGE boner I see, all these faggot 7 year olds defending MW3 with there life, there is no change to the MW3 engine, Its the EXACT same as the MW2 engine, it looks like an absolute pile of shit, they "TRIED" to enhance the graphics for singleplayer, but that ended up in a shitfest, fuck MW3 and its blurry ass textures.

[au25]

@dvdcastav then rage=/= not borderlands trust me on this one it does evertyhing the exact opposite way, no coop, no leveing up, no exploration not many guns and has a good campaign with dialogues and voice acting also the driving is done the exact opposite way.