Crysis vs Crysis Warhead - comparison

Soldato
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Having completed both Crysis and Crysis Warhead at DX10 1920x1200 with 2x AA on the max settings of both games, I became convinced that Warhead looks worse for some reason, so I decided to test both games.

Left FPS counters on to compare performance but thats useless because no scenes match and I was also getting low FPS because of constant changing, loading etc. (Although Crysis does have a better FPS in each one... ;))

What do you think?

Crysis:
crysis2.jpg

Warhead:

warhead2-1.jpg

Crysis:
crysis3.jpg

Warhead:

warhead3.jpg

Crysis:
crysis5.jpg

Warhead:

warhead5.jpg

Crysis:
crysis4.jpg

Warhead:

warhead4.jpg



The main thing these don't show is long scale scenes, Warhead has a much lower object draw distance. When I look at the screenshots both games look similar but they look quite different while playing.
 
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Yeah, the vegetation is one of the things that stuck out to me. The lighting is really extreme in Warhead as well as also shown in that shot, which I guess is a matter of preference as its just different, not worse as such.

Both games are excellent looking though.
 
Warhead runs no better for me but I think I know why, its because everything they've done makes it easier on the GPU but CPU use stays the same. I've got a mad graphics system so im bottlenecked by CPU, at least thats my theory on it.

Btw no one noticed the censoring in the second pic? :p
 
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