Among the many rankings published by the trade press at the end of 2022, Digital Foundry’s Top3 dedicated to video games with the best graphics could not be missing: according to the well-known collective of ‘technoludic journalists’, it is Horizon Forbidden West the game with the best visual sector of this year.
In assigning their personal GOTY to the sci-fi adventure starring Aloy (here you can find our review of Horizon Forbidden West), the journalists specializing in technical analysis explain how graphics have progressed in the video games marketed in the last twelve months , to then discuss the titles launched in 2022 that have managed to offer ‘state of the art’ graphics.
In the long discussion by John Linneman and Alex Battaglia, the two members of the Digital Foundry team praise the work done by Guerrilla Games in shaping the open world of Horizon Forbidden West. The PlayStation exclusive leads a ranking that sees two other projects on the podium that stand out for the quality of the graphics, namely the horror splatter The Callisto Protocol and the RTX version of Portal.
Among the honorable mentions of the two DF journalists we also find the technical sector of A Plague Tale Requiem, Gran Turismo 7, The Last of Us Part 1, NFS Unbound and Warhammer 40K Darktide. For the Digital Foundry team, the graphics of Fortnite on Unreal Engine 5.1 deserve a separate discussion. Eurogamer.net experts explain that the updated version for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X / S of Epic’s blockbuster battle royale opens a window on the future that awaits owners of latest generation systems, by virtue of the many video games in development on Unreal Engine 5 that could derive enormous benefits (both ‘visual’ and performance) from the work done by Epic on its multiplatform graphics engine.
