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Best Graphics (Technical) on Xbox
 
 
 Game graphics continue to improve drastically every year. As the most immediately noticeable element in any game, graphics remain and will always be extremely important to your gaming experience. Besides the artists who design the actual look of each game, programmers are charged with the highly competitive responsibility of creating increasingly impressive 3D graphics engines to bring their games to life. Here is the winner of Best Graphics (Technical) on Xbox:

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

 
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What immediately stands out about Splinter Cell's graphical prowess is its ability to create stunning lighting, yielding realistic shadows and highly believable scenes. Because stealth and hiding are a major part of Splinter Cell, the graphics play a large role in many of the game's fundamental elements, so having a solid presentation is mandatory. But Splinter Cell goes beyond a solid presentation into sporting some truly breathtaking effects. Seeing warm sunlight seeping through Venetian blinds or floodlights beaming through a chain-link fence, casting accurate shadows and light hews, will make you marvel at the game's reproduction of lifelike light. Light goes a long way toward furthering realism, and it's been a crucial graphic element that seems to have been exceptionally hard for game programmers to realistically depict. But Splinter Cell just nails it. Also, the animations in the game truly stand out, featuring such an extraordinary degree of fluidity that we had to be reassured that they weren't motion captured. All this makes for a visual presentation that's not only unmatched on the Xbox, but is one of the best ever, for any gaming platform.

Other Nominees:

 
 MechAssault
MotoGP
Rallisport Challenge
Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions

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