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Read our full Death Stranding review Detroit: Become Human Love or hate his writing and directing style, but Hideo Kojima’s first independent game is nothing short of a masterpiece in graphics. Some even claim that the performances by some characters are beyond ones given in big-budget films, and we’re keen to agree. And since big-name actors, celebrities, and other real people show up in this game we would notice if they appeared off in any way. Unlike The Last of Us Part 2, facial capture was used here and, honestly, comes very close to looking just as good. The lonely atmosphere and supernatural elements wouldn’t be as believable if they didn’t look so … believable.Įven the motion capture on display puts this title on another level. This is a game all about making deliveries across majestic and dangerous terrain, so failing to make the places you’re traveling through appealing would be disastrous. But, with some modifications and support, Death Stranding can push the graphics even further, at least on the landscape front. It’s rather appropriate that Death Stranding follows Horizon Zero Dawn considering the former was built on the same engine as the latter. Read our full Horizon Zero Dawn review Death Stranding Via Kojima Productions And that’s just one of the robots you’ll face. If that number doesn’t mean anything to you, the game’s director compared it to Killzone 3 which never had more than 250,000 polygons total for everything on screen combined. This one creature was created using a staggering 550,000 polygons.

In terms of the robots, just take the Thunderjaw as an example. Whether you’re in the snowy mountains, desert plains, or overgrown remnants of a city, there’s never a dull sight. The vistas and horizons, no pun intended, on display in this game are worth stopping to just soak in. The main human characters are by no means bad, but the real standouts in this game are the environments and massive, dinosaur-inspired machines you will face down. Set in a post-apocalypse world where giant machines roam the land alongside human tribes, the contrast between nature and machine has never looked so good. Thankfully the entire game turned out to be amazing, but the fact that the game looks so good really helps sell the entire experience. When they announced that they were moving away from their FPS roots, many were concerned they would be able to pull it off, but from the first images we saw of what they had planned, we could at least rest easy knowing it would be a visual treat. Guerilla Games, another highly talented PlayStation studio, previously made a name for themselves with the Killzone series, and even had a great-looking game ready for the PS4’s launch. Read our full Last of Us Part 2 review Horizon Zero Dawn There is a ton to praise about The Last of Us 2, and plenty to critique, but the graphics are without a doubt stunning. If that sounds like a minor detail to add, consider the fact that lights will shine through thin materials on a character, such as their hair and ears. Not only does the snow realistically deform as you trudge through it and bodies fall, but blood will pool out, get absorbed, and melt sections of snow just like it would in real life. Faces and expressions leap over the uncanny valley thanks to hand-done animations, the lighting is dynamic and deep, and everything reacts to the player.Ī standout example comes early on in the game during a snowy sequence. It isn’t just impressive in terms of gorgeously detailed environments, which they are, but in the amount of detail they pack in. Just like the first game in the series, this game came in the final year of its respective console’s life and man does it show how much the team was able to learn about the system in that time.

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Naughty Dog has been PlayStation’s premier studio ever since the Uncharted series exploded in popularity, and then cemented themselves as technical wizards with The Last of Us Part 2.

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The best PS4 games you can play right nowĪ trend you’ll notice right away is that most of the best-looking games on the PS4 come from first-party studios.

There’s always an argument to be made between stylized and realistic graphics, but when you really want to show off how far games have come, these are the games on the PS4 with graphics so good they might fool you into thinking they’re real. But there are some late - and even early - PS4 titles that set the bar so high, it might be a while before developers can overcome them even with the more powerful hardware. Now that the PlayStation 5 is out we are seeing a few games push realistic graphics to a new level.