Games that made you go WOW (graphically)

[mattyj1085]

What game or games Graphically made you go WOW?

For me the only one would be Unreal. The first time I saw it on my SLI Voodoo 2 setup I neally wet myself. The intro screen blew me away with the shiny reflective walk way, music, lighting etc. Then the game started and escaping through the tunnels in fog/mist, seeing the shadows spin on the floor, then getting outside into a massive expanse of level with birds, a waterfall and a seeing a giant craft that had crashed.

Then theres all the other stuff like darkmatch with a flashlight, trapdoors to lava and teleporter

This to me has been the only game that has graphically taken a giant step from previous titles.

I was a bit too young for stuff like Wolfenstein 3d, Corridor 7 etc. What was the first '3D' (like Doom) title? Im sure it wasnt Doom

 

[mattyj1085]

Another of my WOW moments was when I played unreal tournament on S3 metal rendering, seeing the earth spin by from that sniper tower looked amazing with high textures.

Pitty the S3 Savage 32mb card was garbage in general

 

[mattyj1085]

- Half Life 2: Water is amazing & still is. The reflections and dirty floaty bits look very realistic. I just installed over 9GB of Fakefactory add-ons and it looks better than most game today. Now it has real time lighting, HDR, way better textures & audio.....amazing what can be done to old games.

It must be said HL2 is one of the most linear games to date but does it with such polish, style & cinimatic moments its like being on a ride.

How do you install the Fakefactory mod? (and where)

I have Half life 2 and Team fortress 2 but not the orange box or episode 1/2.

Can i still install fakefactory mod?