Old PC Games That Still Compete With Current Gen Graphics
Crysis 3
Quite honestly, you could include any Crysis game on this list –even the original game could still fool unsuspecting gamers into thinking it was current gen with everything dialed to max. But if you want a game to truly put your new graphics card to the test, there’s every chance Crysis 3 will melt all but the best GPUs despite its five-year-old shooter age. The game was downright unfair on the 2013 technology that was supposed to run it.
Crysis games have, of course, always been stunningly good-looking, but each has also been almost stupidly ambitious for their time. So much so, in fact, the infamous “But can it run Crysis” meme can still be found in YouTube comment sections to this day.
Funnily enough, last year, PCGamer tried to run the original game at max settings in 4K and struggled, proving that the game is still more than a match for current generation shooters. Indeed, games such as DOOM, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, and Battlefield 1 might have superior physics and material effects, benefitting from more efficient graphical engines, but Crysis 3 has many qualities to its graphical composition that still match or better them, such as volumetric lighting and complex shading models.
